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THE 1878 OFFICIAL E-MAGAZINE | SEPTEMBER 2019 Carla Parker The woman behind the award The Iber Cup - The Opportunity of a lifetime How football helped my mental health Club marketing package launched WWW.CHESHIREFA.COM CHANGING LIVES THROUGH FOOTBALL Carla Parker: her story Page 13 Sin Bins & U18 Armbands Crewe World Cup 2019 Page 4 Page 8 1874 Northwich How football helped my Walking Football mental health Page 17 Page 20 Welcome We are proud to introduce you to The Our aim is to get you up close and 1878, the official E-Magazine of the personal with our grassroots volunteers, Cheshire FA. providing updates on our progress and This is the first instalment of our new highlight some of the great stories online publication providing you, our happening across the grassroots game in stakeholders, with some insight into Cheshire. grassroots football in Cheshire. We hope you enjoy reading! Inside this issue... Tarvin Athletic & the Coach Mentor Programme | Elevens Football | County Cup Preview | The IBER CUP CHANGING LIVES THROUGH FOOTBALL T H E 1 8 7 8 | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 9 Making an Impact CEO's Welcome At Cheshire FA we believe that football can truly change us as individuals and communities. This is our vision! Welcome to our brand new quarterly developments in grassroots football E-Magazine, The 1878. and we will try to encompass the In this issue we have interviews, impact impact football has and can have on us stories, previews of projects to look as individuals. forward to and plenty more! Our mission here at Cheshire FA is to Our volunteers are at the heart of create and develop those lifelong everything great about football in this memories and connections. It is with County and this magazine is designed real humility and admiration that we to express the incredible work going on thank our hard working volunteers across Cheshire and to provide insight across the county, who make this into what happens behind the scenes. happen. These are exciting times for football in Football has the power and Cheshire with participation increasing potential to provide us with everyday across the game. enriched and enhanced lives. We have many referees and coaches working their way up their respected The work that we do pathways and using football as a vehicle demonstrates how at Cheshire for career development. FA we are in the business of Whilst our clubs and leagues are going Changing Lives Through from strength to strength. Football. In the coming issues of this magazine we will keep you updated with new - Steve Stewart, Cheshire FA CEO PAGE 3 T H E 1 8 7 8 | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 9 Hot Topics Sin Bins introduced across grassroots football in Cheshire The mandatory rule change will be implemented up to Step 5 of the National League System and Tier 3 and below in women's football. Sin bins of 10 minutes will be issued by referees as a sanction for dissent in adult football, and will apply to all levels of grassroots football. Shorter sin bins will apply across youth football. Read More Yellow armbands for Under 18 Referees We are delighted to announce that referees under the age of 18 will wear a yellow armband to signify their age. The armbands are designed to identify younger referees and ensure that they game system is a true reflection of who are supported. Upcoming Safeguarding Visits an in date safeguarding children is involved with each team at junior We hope that the armbands will remind everyone workshop. In the next couple of weeks we will level and to also ensure that each club involved in grassroots football that the referee is a In the eventuality the manager be starting to conduct unannounced is compliant with our safeguarding child who is still developing as a referee and to and/or coaches do not meet these safeguarding visits to random standards. It is also a great opportunity refrain from making comments which may leave a requirements the game will be selected junior clubs during training for us to be on the ground to witnes young referee feeling intimidated, threatened or in stopped and forfeited if it is a match sessions or match days. the fantastic work that is happening at some cases abused. day that we attend and training will During the visits we will make be stopped if it is a training session. our clubs across cheshire. sure the named manager and/or If you see us, please come and Read More The purpose of these safeguarding coaches have an in date FA DBS and visits is to make sure that the whole say hello! PAGE 4 T H E 1 8 7 8 | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 9 Update Cheshire Stats This summer we have been busy getting our clubs, leagues, coaches & referees ready for the new season ahead. 3,473 504 Affiliated Clubs Most people would think that the off- Teams Affiliated season of football is a quiet time, but there is a lot of work to do to prepare for the new season. Club affiliation, league sanctioning, player registration and referee registration all occur during the summer months. Affiliating a club and sanctioning a league is imperative to ensure a safe 1190 57,434 4,244 and secure grassroots football in Referees Players Coaches Cheshire. Whilst referee registration is done to ensure those officating games of football have all the relevant qualifications and are safe to do so. This summer league uptake of online Player Registration has increased once again to 25 leagues. This system reduces administration time and 27 paperwork for our volunteers. Affiliated Leagues PAGE 5 T H E 1 8 7 8 | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 9 EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN THE PALM HOF YAOUNR D AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD NOW! DOWNLOAD Once Upon A Smile Renewal We Are Delighted To Announce That We Are Renewing Our Partnership With Once Upon A Smile For A Further 3 Years. Once Upon a Smile provide emotional, organisation as Once Upon a Smile. We are in practical & financial support to bereaved awe of the amazing work that they do. The families at their time of need to enable them volunteers, workers, celebrities and support to move forward. staff – and of course the families that they They are the only bereavement charity in the work with – are truly an inspiration to us all.” UK to offer a variety of support to families Once Upon a Smile co-founder Daniel Jillings through such a difficult time, not only are said: “Over the last few years we have they unique in this way but they also tailor worked closely with the Cheshire FA and the support we provide to families to fit their built a brilliant relationship enabling us to individual needs. reach out to more families. We are delighted Families are often left to grieve alone with that the Cheshire FA decided to continue little or no support available and this can their support to Once Upon a Smile and we often have a devastating impact on family life look forward to working with them over the and children. next three years”. Steve Stewart, Cheshire FA CEO said "We consider ourselves really blessed to be in partnership with such an incredible - Find out More PAGE 7 T H E 1 8 7 8 | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 9 and we used the event to promote the coaching bigger and better next time engaging even more and playing opportunities available to people teams." The event was funded by Kick It Out, Crewe World Cup 2019 from different countries. English footballs equality and inclusion "The teams all enjoyed the event and all the organisation which is at the heart of the fight Ghana Kings Emerge Victorious In Cheshire FA’s Crewe World Cup games were competitive. Hopefully, we can against discrimination for everyone who plays, Tournament - Supported by Kick It Out. build on this year’s tournament and make it - watches or works in football. On Saturday 10th August, 2019 we Ghana Kings who emerged as hosted the inaugural Crewe World Cup Champions after beating Poland in a Tournament at the Cumberland Arena dramatic penalty shootout. in partnership with Crewe Town The closely competed final ended 1-1 Council and Everybody Leisure. after a last minute equaliser from The men’s 7 a side tournament was Poland took the game to penalties. attended by 70 Crewe residents from all Cheshire FA, Football Development over the world who represented their Officer, Daniel Landstrom said "The country in the tournament. Crewe World Cup event was staged to Teams representing England, East bring different nationalities together Timor, Ghana, Poland, Iraq and more all and celebrate the strong football competed against each to claim the community and cultural diversity within trophy. the town. The eventual winners were the - "Football should be enjoyed by all - PAGE 8 T H E 1 8 7 8 | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 9 Find out More First Club Marketing Package successfully launched Ashton on Mersey become the first club to take advantage of our new marketing support Recently, we were delighted to have "However, we recognised that we still lagged successfully launched our first completed club behind other local clubs (football and non-football) marketing package, providing Ashton On when it came to communicating with our Mersey FC with a range of new marketing membership and local community.