LTFC COMMUNITY TRUST NEWSLETTER | ISSUE 4 | MAY 2017 Leisure & Culture Award 2016 SPORT | EDUCATION | HEALTH | INCLUSION COMMUNITYTRUST Cohesion Sports Champions 2017 Registered Charity | Charity No. 1123078 GOLDEN OLDIES SPECIAL! MAN V FAT SUCCESS walking football regional win Our rst Man V Fat league 1 has just nished and The Luton Town Men’s Over 50’s Walking Football team been declared a huge success by our partners recently won the Regional Cup at Venue 360 in the EFL LiveWell Luton as they announced the total weight Walking Football national competition. loss by over 60 participants was a massive 227 kg The victory means the team set up by the Hatter’s Commu- – that’s like losing a couple of full backs! nity Trust are now through to the nals of the competition, On the pitch, it was a closely fought battle where they will ght it out for the title at Sky Bet Champion- between two teams for the league title, however ship club Aston Villa’s training ground-Bodymoor Heath. Exeter Gently came out on top, winning the league by 4 points after 14 games. It highlights a fantastic year for the group, who have also won the Beds County Cup, Advanced and intermediary Our rst season has been such a success that we are Cups and the Cedars Cup. That added to the fact that they starting Season 2 of our Man v Fat League straight were runners-up in the regionals to Bedford in the People’s away at Lea Manor Recreation Centre every Monday Cup, shows just how far the group have come in the 2 at 7.30 pm starting from 5th June. years they have been together. EFL DAY OF ACTION SHOWCASES THE POWER OF FOOTBALL More than one million people are now participating in football-led community programmes and activities. On Tuesday 25th April, Luton Town Community Trust joined 72 EFL Clubs to come together for the EFL’s Commu- nity Day of Action to highlight and inside this showcase the impact of community work in towns and cities nationwide. issue •Community Trust Trustee Vacancy EFL Clubs use the power of football to have a positive effect on thousands of people’s •Hatters Regional Hub for PL Kicks •Stadium Takeover by Trust lives in the UK every day, helping participants to improve their lives with programmes focused on health and wellbeing, education, community outreach and much more. Copyright 2017 © Luton Town FC Community Trust | Kenilworth Stadium, 1 Maple Road, LUTON LU4 8AW | 01582 737568 Charity No. 1123078 [email protected] | Childline: 0800 11 11 Dedicated Historic Helpline: 0800 023 2642 2 As part of the EFL Day of Action, impressed by the amount of work the Luton Town rst team captain Scott Lynsey Holton, Special Educational Community Trust do for the local area. Cuthbert was accompanied by Olly Needs and Disabilities (SEND) He said: ”It’s always nice to be involved Lee and Dan Potts to Challney High Manager at the school said: “ We with this sort of thing. Some of these School for Boys to see one of the selected a group of students from boys will come and watch us play at Luton Town Community Trust’s year eight up to year ten to partici- Kenilworth Road. It’s great to be able to current programme in action. pate in a SEND session. The range come down here and see all the great of students that we have got here work the teachers and support staff do, Community Trust assistant football range in different disabilities such and I think the boys really enjoyed it. development ofcer Luke Hyde as ADHD, Autism and brain injuries, takes pupils from Challney Boys there are a number of different “The Community Trust are like the aside each week who have special conditions. unsung heroes, the amount of work they educational needs, taking them put in, not just here but behind the through some football drills and Scott, Olly and Dan got involved in a scenes as well and it’s fantastic to see giving them the opportunity to play kick around with the boys, some- the work they do with kids.” the sport they love- an opportunity thing the club captain appeared to they may not get outside the school. enjoy, as well as being incredibly PL KICKS PROGRAMME second most popular... PL KICKS PROGRAMME WELCOMES CHARLTON ATHLETIC, MK DONS in the nal and in our rst U11 AND STEVENAGE FC TO MARSH FARM AND ARSENAL FC TO LEWSEY FARM! tournament our friends from Luton Nations YFC made up of The Trust’s PL KICKS programme football as a hook to engage and target young Marsh Farm and Lewsey boys this season recently came out people and attempt to divert them away from won the nal against Arsenal FC second most popular in the EFL in crime and ant-social behaviour. – so a double win for Luton!” terms of participants attending new club projects this season (just Last month we held an U16 KICKS tourna- Beds Police Cohesion team behind Leeds Utd) and our projects ment in Marsh Farm and an U11 tournament helped us on both days and Sgt have quickly attracted visiting clubs in Lewsey Farm with the Hatters teams made James Hart presented the U16 to the Town for games at U11, U14. up from boys from all over Luton. Hatters Trust trophy and commented that ‘It U16 and U19’s and we are now a Community Operations Ofcer Daniel Douglas was great to see boys from all recognised regional hub for the commented "Kicks is a fantastic project that over Luton playing as one team KICKS community cohesion project. encourages young lads of all ages and abilities united behind the Club’s badge to come together and enjoy football. We are which is a powerful tool.’ We are The PL KICKS scheme seeks to using the games as rewards for the boys who happy to support KICKS in engage young people from areas of attend and behave at our KICKS Centres. achieving our aims of closer high need in football, sport and community cohesion in Luton. personal development by using “We won the U16 tournament beating MK 1-0 3 ALMOST 4,500 IN STADIUM TAKEOVER ON COMMUNITY WEEKEND Following straight after our of our disability PE programme funded by Kevin Thoburn, Head of Trust said ‘playing play-o disappointment the EFL Trust and the Wembley National on the pitch encourages ownership of the everyone at the Club and Trust Stadium Trust. club by local youngsters and a real feeling had a great ‘pick me up’ as the of community – a real feeling of being part next day saw the start of our To nish o our Day 1 week-end we held of Luton. It takes a huge amount of time big Stadium Community our annual PL KICKS ‘Integration Cup’ on and energy for the Trust to run the stadi- Week-end which saw over Friday evening which saw over 200 boys um for 3 days and we are lucky to have 1,500 participants play on the aged between 14 and 19 years from all such a dedicated group of coaching sta main pitch as well as almost over Luton take part in what has now who make it all possible’. 3,000 excited spectators become a highlight of the year for all of attending our annual Hatters the boys who attend our late night KICKS Cup tournament for local centres. In the end it was Lewsey farm youngsters. who took the honours in the older section and Marsh Farm who won the The 3 day event was kicked o younger section – so honours even – kind by our Mens Disability teams of! Thanks to the Beds Police Cohesion enjoying their weekly training team and Tokko Youth centre for their session at Kenilworth Road involvement on the night which went o instead of their regular venue at peacefully. Stockwood Athletics Track. This Day 2 and 3 saw our annual Hatters Cup was followed in the afternoon by youth football tournament take place on our Schools Disability competi- the pitch. We think it is one of the biggest tion which saw 8 local schools in the South of England with over 120 compete for our ‘Every Player local teams taking part and 3,000 specta- Counts’ Trophy which forms part tors over the 2 day event. COMMUNITY SHIELD CHEQUE PRESENTATION At our last league game of the at half time during the Morecanmbe game fantastic guys who really take their season the Community Trust were by Chief Operating Ocer and fellow football seriously and as a Trust we feel delighted to receive a cheque for trustee, Kevan Platt. really privileged to be part of the project. £1,000.00 from the Football The Club’s donation of their share of the Association from the proceeds of The Community Trust have decided to put Community Shield Fund will help the the 2016 FA Community Shield. this donation towards the cost of support- Trust with the cost of supporting the The money is Luton Town’s share ing our ocial Luton Town FC Mens teams during the rest of the year. of the match proceeds which the Disability Teams. Our community coaches Club have generously donated to deliver weekly sessions with the squads the Trust towards our disability and then manage the teams at the weekly football projects. Disability League held at the Beds FA in Skimpot Lane. The cheque was presented to one of the Trust’s trustee’s Mike McMahon The squads are made up of a group of 4 MAKE A DIFFERENCE..