Local Funding for Future Lionesses
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VOL.55 No4 The Journal of Bourne End (Bucks) Community Association AUG/SEPT 2019 £1Suggested price Local funding for future Lionesses The professionalism and skill of the players in disability football teams which can assist this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup matches towards the costs of FA coaching courses; FA A future has brought a whole new raft of fans to the league affiliation costs; referees’ fees; first aid Lioness? game. kits; football kit and equipment. Darcy Now women’s football is starting to get the Clare Leighton, vice chair and sports club Langley at attention it deserves. And local girls have their director said: “We started on our journey of the sports best chance ever to get involved in the sport creating girls’ teams in the summer term by club as Bourne End Junior Sports Club is on the becoming a SSE Wildcats centre. For the first hunt for the next generation of female players time, despite not having our own teams, we after receiving a £4,500 Grow the Game also included two girls age groups in our grant. annual football tournament Sportsfest. The scheme, which is funded by the Football “We started with four girls, but following Association and delivered by the Football the success of the Lionesses in the World Foundation, will enable the club to create Cup, and word spreading about the great three new teams over the next three years coaching that we offer, we have seen the starting with under10s. number of girls mushroom. We’ve invested In addition to joining their competitive heavily in the girls’ section, employing local teams, there are a number of ways that girls professional academy coach Marco Papa to can get involved in football; SSE Wildcats for put them through their paces and the girls girls from five to11; Tiny Kickers for girls from are thriving under his guidance. two to four years old and mini kickers for “We hope to put our first team together in girls from four to six years old. They also have September with a great group of Under 10 many girls playing in existing mixed teams up girls, we don’t think the other teams will be to Under 11s, too far behind. The Grow the Game scheme sees grants of “In addition to providing opportunities for £1,500 awarded to community football clubs girls to play football, we also offer a young wishing to create new teams, especially among coach development scheme to attract older under-represented groups. girls 16+ into coaching. in helping us achieve our amibitions. This year funding was made available for “The money that we have received from the For more information or to arrange a trial clubs looking to create new female and FA and the Football Foundation is invaluable email [email protected] Goodbye to the library ladies... Target Magazine, and we are sure many readers, will be sad to say goodbye to the hard-working, friendly and creative team of ladies who have been running Bourne End Library so brilliantly. Read Inka’s farewell message on page 32. 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The Editor 01628 532932 reserves the right to select letters and www.bea.bucks.sch.uk 01628 819022 reports for publication and to edit for grammar, style and length. TARGET COMPETITION (page 40) Terms and conditions: Entrants must be aged 18 or over, only one entry per person, no cash alternative to this prize, our decision is final, no correspondence can be entered into. The meal must be booked in advance and is subject to availability. Drinks not included. 2 Could you become one of the Target delivery team? Brian Wheal’s front room together with about 20 occurs. The residents’ association had input in local people including Keith and Brenda Harris who helping the village green to be registered. had put their name to the original letter. Dinnie Again using the law regarding access we were Hawthorne was another and David Bolton who able to get the footpath on the old railway line became the first chairman. Please no letters or calls between Blackbird Cottage and Willows Crossing to say that “I was there and didn’t get a mention”. registered on the definitive footpath map. A follow-up meeting in the Red Cross Centre at the Other memories come to mind with the publication bottom of New Road, now New Beginnings, of three volumes featuring old photographs. Without confirmed the desire from the community for a a doubt Brian Wheals initiated ‘The Way It Was’ with residents association. So in 1978 we were up and a collection of old photographs that are in the It’s always positive to start with a good news story. Six running. library. Then there are the bound copies of all years ago Bucks County Council was going to close Over the ensuing years there have been so many issues of Target magazines up to the present. and sell off our day centre (alongside the library in things providing a proud legacy.