News - AFC Urmston Meadowside
The World Cup comes to Meds |
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Managers, Club Officials and players were treated to a "hands-on" view of the World Cup at the recent Meds Annual Soccer Festival. The picture shows Club Officials Mike Hassall, Dave Stead and Stuart Nichols holding the prized trophy which we hope will be held by Rio in a few weeks time. Of course this was not the real deal but a very realistic (and heavy) replica used by tournament photographers "DE PHOTO" who
attend every year. It proved a very popular prop for the photographers
and all photos taken at this year's and previous years' tournaments
can be viewed at the DE PHOTO website This year's Tournament was once
again a major success with almost 200 teams competing over the 4 day
period and a number of Meds teams enjoying success. The weather also
played it's part for a change and helped to make it a carnival atmosphere
throughout both weekends.
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Meds Storm U11s County Cup Winners |
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A great spectacle to finish the season saw our very own Meds "Storm" bring home a winners trophy - the prestigious U11 Manchester County Cup. It was a very close game with both teams keeping pace with the scoring. De La Salle had the best of the first half and went two goals ahead early on but the tide turned at the break and the Storm threw everything at them in the second half. At the final whistle the teams could not be separated and extra time ensued. It was still deadlocked after the first period of extra time but finally the deadlock was broken in the second period and the Storm ran out final winners 7-4
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A unique treble for MEDS & recognition for Dave |
The Club has just been advised that for the third year running we have won the Manchester FA “Charter Standard Community Club of the Year” award. This is a remarkable achievement and no other Club has ever done this. Andy Basterfield, Senior Football Development Officer at Manchester FA, says, “ Whilst it is unusual to achieve the award for 3 consecutive years, Urmston Meadowside continue to set the standards”. The Club will now go forward for consideration for the North West Regional Award. There was also more good news with Dave Wright, our vice-Chairman winning the Manchester FA “Volunteer of the Year 2010” award, in recognition of his unrelenting fund raising efforts for our new clubhouse. Dave’s efforts have helped us raise around £120k towards the Clubhouse and this award is well deserved. |
MEDS meet Wayne Rooney |
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Members of the Club recently attended the Manchester
FA Grassroots Dinner where the special guest was non other than the
newly crowned “Footballer of the Year”,
Wayne Rooney. The dinner was held at Lancashire Cricket
Club with 500 people attending. During the evening the Club was re-presented
with it’s National
Community Club of the Year award by Wayne himself. The picture
shows our (soon to be) new Club Secretary, Damian Preston, receiving
the plaque from Wayne. This was a special moment for Damian being a
staunch United fan, unlike certain other Club members from the ‘ Blue
Half of Manchester ‘ who took up a back row position in the photogragh,
having been dumped out of the Carling Cup the night before from a last
minute Rooney goal! (Click on the image below to see the bigger picture)
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Meds National Award presented at Wembley |
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On 5th September, Meds were special guests of the FA in London
for the recent England vs Slovenia game to officially receive the
Club's National Charter Standard Award. John Burnett, the Meds Chairman
and Dave Stead, the Club Development Manger were invited to the game where
they were dined at the prestigious FA Club at Wembley Stadium and
then presented with the coveted FA National Charter
Standard Community Club of the Year Award for 2009. |
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Meds secure Grant from Sport England |
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The Club is very grateful to Sport England who have just sanctioned a £4000 grant to help with the Club's growth and development. The award will help fund new playing kit and equipment together with money to cover the cost of sending several new coaches onto FA Level 1 courses. One of the much welcomed items of equipment will be the purchase of new 16 x 7ft i-goals for our 9 v 9 sides.
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Be part of the first Meadowside Vets Team - History in the making |
The first ever Meadowside Vets team is finally about to get underway. The 'Gaffers' shall be Messrs Damo Preston & Dave 'The Kitman' Ritchie. The league will commence at the end of September so we intend to try and get 2 friendly games under our belt by then. For those that don't know the format of this new league please click on the link below: The very handsome Mr. Richardson is placing a kit
order (plenty of XL shirts being the order of the day!!)
I will communicate the dates for friendlies and the league fixtures
proper as and when I have them... I also reckon we may do some ‘light’ training
on the odd occasion – perhaps followed by a pint! Kind Regards, |
MEDS Boys and Girls Visit Wembley 2009 |
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On Thursday 6th August two under 10s teams from Urmston Meadowside
(boys and girls) realised a "once in a lifetime" dream
by playing (and winning) at Wembley. Once inside the stadium the teams were led out through the players tunnel into the home of football. After a group photo involving almost 1000 young players the first teams were led onto the pitch (pausing on the way to meet and have a photo taken with the legend that is Sir Geoff Hurst.) Both the boys and the girls team won their respective games on the hallowed turf in front of 2,500 screaming parents and family members; and for the boys team this topped off a fine day which had seen them concede no goals at all throughout the day.The teams were then led up to the royal box where all the players received a commemorative medal. Playing at Wembley is an honour that many professional players never experience so for the youngsters and coaches involved, it will be a memory to cherish. All in all a fantastic day out and an experience that will no doubt be handed down through future generations as we can all say "We were there!" |
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Urmston Meadowside- Number 1 Charter Standard Community Club in the Country |
Urmston Meadowside awarded National FA Charter Standard Community Club accolade for 2009. Greater Manchester’s biggest grassroots football Club, are again celebrating today after winning the prestigious FA National Charter Standard Community Club of the Year for 2009. Urmston Meadowside who will be operating 45 teams for season 2009/2010 providing football for both male and female at Mini Soccer, Junior, Open Age, have been confirmed as the FA’s National Charter Standard Community Club of the Year. The award follows on from their success in both the Manchester County, and North West Regional awards, with over 50 other County winners originally competing to become number one in the Country. The award will be presented to Meds club officials later this year at one of the England fixtures taking place at Wembley stadium. Charter Standard recognises good practice in Grassroots Football through a number of ways including Child Welfare, Coaching, and Administration. The Charter Standard Community award is the top award within the FA’s Kitemark programme. Med’s Development Manager Dave Stead said “For the Club to win this coveted National Award is a fantastic achievement, and everyone who is associated with the Club should be really proud. We are absolutely delighted. The award recognises all the hard work everyone at the Club undertakes, and all within their own spare time’. No one was more delighted at Meds than their long serving Chairman, John Burnett who has been with the Club from day one, way back in 1977. Says John, “When I got involved with the very first Meds team in 1977, I could never have imagined how much the Club would grow and what it would achieve. We have really taken off in recent years, particularly since becoming a Charter Standard Club. To achieve this National Award is THE major highlight in the Club’s history” Manchester FA’s Development Officer Andy Basterfield added “For a Manchester club to win such an important National award is fantastic both for them and the County FA. Everyone here at Manchester FA is delighted for all concerned with the Club. Urmston Meadowside continue to offer fantastic football opportunities for all, & at very high standards, continually support everything we do here at Manchester FA. They are a fantastic example of Good Practice in Football, and a credit to the Grassroots Game”. Success off the pitch has also been mirrored on the pitch with a number
of successes in league and cup competitions, for various age groups,
and further appearances in numerous Cup Finals. Combined with a recent
application to the Football Foundation for a new Clubhouse, these are
very exciting times for the Club as a whole, and everyone at Urmston
Meadowside can’t wait to start the new
2009/10 season. |
MEDS Team of the Year 2009 |
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This year's Team of the Year award went to Meds U13s Girls - the first time a girls team has won this prize. The Girls team have had yet another very successful season in 2008/2009 by winning the League & Cup double. The girls also achieved a similar feat in the previous season. The Team of the Year trophy was presented at the Club Presentation Evening on 20th June and caught manager Paul Harvey by surprise. Said Paul, " I am absolutely delighted for the girls, they have had a great season and deserve the recognition. We are all very proud to be the first Girls team to win this trophy" The picture shows the winning line up at the League Cup Final played at Flixton FC. We now look forward to continued success as U14s in the forthcoming season.
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A "Double Double" award for Meds |
Following on from our recent award from Manchester FA as their FA Charter Standard Community Club of the Year 2009, we have been notified that the Club has once again won the North West Regional FA Community Club of the Year 2009 for the second year in succession. This means that we have basically retained our titles from 2008. No other football club has won any of these awards 2 years running. Says John Burnett our Chairman " It is a remarkably achievement to have won both awards yet again and shows how much the FA recognises the good work undertaken by the Club. I would like to thank all the managers, coaches and everyone connected with Meds for their efforts throughout last season. We have now been put forward for the National FA Award which would be fantastic if we could make it a hat-trick for 2009 in the same year that we hope to start work on the new Clubhouse. We are now building up quite a collection of plaques for display in our Community Room once the Clubhouse is completed."
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"The Awards just keep coming" |
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The Club has received yet another award by once again winning the Manchester FA Charter Standard Community Club of the Year for 2009. The FA continues to recognise all the hard work undertaken by Urmston Meadowside within the local community. This is the second consecutive year that the Club has won the award and is also the 4th time that we have achieved this recognition having won it in 2003, 2005, 2008 and now, this year.
Four Members of the Executive Committee were invited to Manchester FA in Salford on the evening of Thursday 11th June to be presented with the Award plaque. The picture shows Dave Wright, our vice chairman receiving the plaque from Frank Hannah (President of Manchester FA). Also in the picture are Sue Richardson, Dave Stead and Jim Brown.
There was also a unique opportunity for all award winners to have their photo taken with the silverware won by Manchester United during the season just finished. The other photo shows our 4 club officials with the Carling Cup, the Manchester Senior Cup, the Premiership Trophy and the World Club Trophy - you can imagine the comments made by Jim Brown to the other 2 'Daves' who are both City fans !!
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MEDS form a link with STEGTA |
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Our Club has recently formed a link with Salford and Trafford Engineering Group Training Association Ltd (STEGTA) which could give job opportunities for young Club members and at the same time benefit the Club financially. STEGTA have just sponsored our U13s Meteors and it is through manager Vinny Eckersley and former coach Ian Parker that the arrangement has been formed.
STEGTA can offer apprenticeships to young people aged 16 and over. Anyone from Meds wishing to apply should state that they have been referred by Meds. STEGTA will then pay the Club a fee if the applicant is successful in obtaining an apprenticeship. For more information, go to the STEGTA website www.stegta.co.uk
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"Motty" presents Award to Meds (Jan 09) |
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Senior members of the Club were recently invited to
the Manchester FA Grassroots Gala Dinner where Meds was presented with
the FA Charter Standard Community Club of the Year plaque for
2008. This follows our very successful year where the Club won both
the Manchester FA award and the North West of England award. The presentation
was made to the Club by the legendary football commentator John Motson
(yes, he did wear his sheepskin coat for his after dinner speech).
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The picture above shows the Club's Development Manager, Dave Stead, receiving the plaque from Motty. |
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Manchester to Blackpool Cycle 2008 - Fundraising |
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Dave Wright, Meds Fundraising Manager, his sister
and fellow club committee member Gill Weaver joined the 6000 plus
riders on Sunday 13th July and cycled from Manchester to Blackpool to
raise funds for the new clubhouse development fund. After 5 hours and
68 miles in the saddle Dave and Gill, together with their family
team, finally arrived at South Shore, Blackpool in bright sunshine
and in front of large crowds who'd gathered to watch all the cyclists
finish. Despite heavy legs, sore 'bootys' and sunburnt legs, they
were happy in the knowledge that they'd completed the distance and raised
valuable funds for the club.
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North West Regional FA Charter Standard Community Club of the Year 2008 |
More great news! Following on closely behind our award from Manchester
FA, we have been informed that Urmston Meadowside has won the FA Charter
Standard Community Club of the Year 2008 for the North West of England.
We are now shortlisted for the National Award which is a super reflection
of the work which goes on in the club and the Urmston community. The
Award is due to be presented to the Club during July.
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Special Guest at Meds Presentation Night |
The Club was delighted to welcome a very special guest at our final presentation evening on June 20th. Roger Reade, the Chief Executive of Manchester FA accepted our invitation to attend the evening and presented the 3 Lions medals to those boys and girls who had just finished the 3 month coaching course run by our club coaches in our partnership schools. Roger said he had got a real "buzz" from the evening and had been very impressed with everything that the Club is doing in the community. He made a particular reference to our environmental/green policy and felt we must be one of the first to introduce such a policy. Roger and his team at Manchester FA are, like ourselves, keeping fingers crossed for the National Award for CS community club of the year. Watch this space............
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Another Prestige Award for Meds (June 08) |
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Meds have won another major award – The Manchester FA’s “ Charter
Standard Community Club of the Year 2008”. This is the third time
in the last six years that Meds have won the award, a feat not achieved
by any other Club.
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The Club was presented with the Award by England goalkeeping legend, Peter Shilton, at the FA’s Salford Mini-Soccer Festival. The picture shows Sue Richardson (Secretary), Dave Stead (Development Manager & Treasurer) and John Burnett (Chairman) receiving from Peter the commemorative plaque which, hopefully, can soon be mounted inside the new Clubhouse. Also in the picture is Frank Hannah, the Manchester FA President & Chairman. Says Sue, “ this award recognises the hard work put in by everyone associated with the Cub and shows that Manchester FA appreciate the way in which we run our Club”. Andy Basterfield, the Football Development Officer at Manchester FA will now be submitting our nomination for consideration for the Regional Award. |
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Manchester FA Mini-Soccer Festival (June 08) |
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Meds entered 15 teams into this year Manchester FA Mini-soccer festival
held at the Salford Sports Village in June. Whilst the Festival is run
as a "friendly" tournament where each player receives a medallion, the
organizers award a Number of "Fair Play Trophies" to selected teams.
This year Meds won an amazing 4 trophies which must rank amongst the
largest (in size) given out at such events. The U7s boys and U8 boys
both won the Fair Play Award and in the girls event both our U10s teams
received similar awards.
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Season's Highlights 07/08 |
Another good season for Meds teams. The U10s Bullets won a thrilling Cup Final 2-1. Both the U11s Hornets and U12s Eagles were Cup finalists. Meds U14s Sporting were league champions with the U12s Eagles and U16s Sharks finishing as runners -up in their respective leagues. Meds U12s Girls won a League and Cup double and also won the Salford mini-league later in the season. Meds U14s were also cup finalists. Meds U7s boys and the U9s boys won the Fair Play Trophy at the Manchester FA Mini-soccer Festival and the 2 girls U10s both won the Fair Play Trophy at the same event.
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(Mar 08) Meds Support Sports Relief |
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Around 200 staff volunteered their time to take 3000 donation calls from 7pm to Midnight on Friday March 14th taking around £100K in donations. Throughout the evening there were magicians, tarot readers, tattooists and singers all on hand to ensure all had a fun night. All teams had a sporting theme in this case football; picture shows the staff in Meadowside kit kindly donated for the evening. Picture shows steering group of BUPA staff responsible for managing a voluntary call centre to take Sports Relief donation calls. |
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(Feb 08) Another Prestige Award for Meds |
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The annual Trafford Sports Awards Evening was held in February to recognise special achievers in sport within the borough of Trafford during 2007. Our Club Chairman, John Burnett, was presented with the "Unsung Hero in Sport Award" beating a host of very strong nominations. This follows on from last year's success when both Dave Stead and the Club itself won awards. John was recognised for his services to grassroots football, which span a continuous period in excess of 30 years. He was one of the founder members of Meds where he has moved from coach to manager to Secretary and currently, Chairman. In addition to this, John has had a long active role within the running of the Timperley & District Junior League where he also holds the position of chairman. His involvement in football does not stop there - he is also a member of the Altrincham & District FA committee and is in charge of the District FA Youth Team. John will now attend the Greater Manchester regional awards ceremony in April and compete with similar winners from the other 9 boroughs. The picture shows John being presented with his trophy and certificate by Jonny Cowan, a top international table tennis player. The other picture shows John with Sue Richardson and Dave Stead who also attended the evening. |
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(Oct 07) An Evening with Sir Trevor Brooking |
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Representatives of the Club, who are members of the Manchester FA Coaches Association, enjoyed an opportunity to meet Sir Trevor Brooking recently at the Manchester FA headquarters in Salford. Sir Trevor is the FA's Director of Football Development. The purpose of his visit was to introduce the new FA Skills Coach Programme to the Coaches Association. The programme is aimed at developing 5-11 year old children and introduces new methods of coaching, some of which were demonstrated on the all weather pitch to a group of volunteer attendees. Sir Trevor believes that this initiative will ultimately provide future England teams with a higher standard of player - with maybe one or two from our own talented youngsters ! The picture below shows Dave Stead, Pierce Moloney, Steve Coy, Andy Stead, Dan Shea and Andy Gater with Sir Trevor at the evening's event. |
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(July 07) An American team from Irmo Varsity, South Carolina visit AFC Urmston Meds |
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An American team visited from Irmo Varsity in South Carolina. After a close game the Meds U14 girls won 3-2. The visitors had toured Scotland and were on their way down to London after stopping in Manchester. The whole day went brilliantly with a buffet laid on after the match and Meds presented the opposition with shirts, a signed ball and a pennant. Irmo asked us to visit them in the near future, a promise manager Dave Pollitt is certainly contemplating. Click here for more photos. |
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Meds U11 Eagles are the Team of the Year (2006/07) |
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This year's (06/07) "Team of the Year" award went to the all-conquering U11s Eagles. In what was a great season for the team they finished as league champions and cup winners. The team almost made it a treble success but was knocked out of the Manchester FA Youth Cup in the semi-finals. All the players received a special individual Team of the Year trophy at the Meds Presentation Evening. The boys continued their success winning the Meadowside Tournament in May and the Plate competitions at other Tournaments in Blackpool. Congratulations to Steve and Pat and all the team. |
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FA 3 Lions Coaching Programme
Urmston Meadowside have just completed another very successful "FA 3 Lions Coaching Program". This is the 4th year that the club has run this popular event. The program is run jointly between a selected Charter Standard Club, the FA and a School Sports Partnership. It is part of the FA's School-Club Link activities. Meds already deliver football coaching within the Trafford Sports Partnership for the Flixton Family of Schools. Manchester FA invited Meds to run a 12 week "3 Lions Scheme" between March and June, involving Year 1 boys & girls and Year 3 & 4 girls from the partnership schools.
Dave Stead the Club's Development Manager and John Burnett, the Club Chairman have managed the 2008 FA 3 Lions Coaching course. The success of the program was down to the close contact and promotion undertaken by Dave within the Schools coupled with the high quality of coaching delivered by the Meds coaches. An average of 75 children have attended the sessions, which aim to teach and improve soccer skills but most of all provide a fun experience. At the end of the course all participants were invited to a Presentation Evening, where, each child received a personalized laminated Certificate and a souvenir medal. To make this year's presentations, the Club were delighted to have a special guest, Roger Reade, the Chief Executive of Manchester FA. Roger spent the evening with the club following our recent achievement in winning the Charter Standard Community Club awards for both Manchester and the North West. Many of the 3 Lions children have now joined Meadowside and now attend our regular training sessions.
What is a 3 Lions FC Coaching Course? |
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• 3 Lions FC is an eight to twelve week football coaching course designed by the FA specifically for girls and boys to assist them to move from playing football at school to playing for an affiliated FA Charter Standard Club. |
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MEDS Celebrates 30 years of Football in the Community |
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| This year sees the Club celebrate its 30th Anniversary and to mark the special occasion, the Club held a Gala Dinner Dance at Lancashire County Cricket Club at which over 270 people attended. Amongst the attendees were players and managers past and present as well as parents, relatives, friends and sponsors of the Club. The evening was a major success with guest speaker Fred Eyre entertaining everyone with some side-splitting stories of his life in football. It was also a special occasion for 2 particular people. Firstly, John Rushton our Club President who is not known to many because he now lives in Cyprus and has done for some time. John flew over specially to be at the celebrations. We owe a lot to John and his son Kevin (who also attended) because these were the people responsible for setting up this great Club of ours way back in 1977. The Club presented John with a special embroidered Meds polo shirt to take back home with him. Secondly, our chairman, John Burnett who is also a founder member of the Club and has been involved for the full 30 year duration. John was presented with a glass trophy in recognition of his work for the Club. It was also interesting to see 4 founder members of the very first Meadowside team from 1977. These were Andy Burnett, Kevin Rushton, Paul Eccles and Mike Goring. Mike, of course is well known to current members as he is the manager of one of our U12s teams. Paul is also back involved, helping to coach the U7s kids. We now look forward to what the next 30 years brings - the Premiership perhaps !! |
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Meadowside Annual Soccer Festival
Trafford Sports Awards Presentation Evening - Meds has won Trafford Sports Award Club of the Year |
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| On 21st February 2007, Sue Richardson and Dave Stead attended the Trafford Sports Awards Presentation Evening. |
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An Audience with Bryan Robson & The FA Cup |
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On February 16th 2007, Urmston Meadowside were privileged to be invited to
an exciting event involving Manchester United & England legend Bryan Robson
and the FA Cup. The event was organised by Umbro Sportswear and was one of
a number of nationwide 'road shows' to promote the FA Cup to youngsters. Umbro
are the current official balls suppliers for the FA Cup. |
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Donate your Old Mobile Phones and Empty Printer Cartridges to AFC Urmston Meadowside
Please Donate All Your Old Mobile Phones to Help Raise Funds for Our New Clubhouse.
It doesn't matter what condition they are in, they are all worth something to us.
Just make sure you remove the SIM card and hand them to your team managers.
GETTING A NEW PHONE FOR CHRISTMAS? WHY NOT DONATE THE OLD ONE TO US?
Team Managers : Please bring all donated phones and empty printer cartridges to the next available committee meeting and hand in to Gill Weaver or Dave Wright
F.A. Boot Aid
If you've ever wondered what to do with a perfectly good pair of football boots that you've grown out of, now you can donate them to football mad children in Malawi. Clubs and Leagues in Greater Manchester are being encouraged to collect unwanted pairs of boots for up to three thousand orphaned children attending ten charity centres in the Mulanje region as part of an appeal by FOMO - Friends of Mulanje Ophans. The children, who have lost their parents to HIV, attend special centres before and after school to learn about hygiene, safe sex, HIV and games such as football. Founders Mary and Keith Woodworth hope that the days of the children playing football in bare feet will soon be over. . If your club or league can help, please telephone FOMO on 01772 619409, or visit their extensive and informative website at www.fomo.co.uk.
SHOP ONLINE AND RAISE MONEY FOR AFC Urmston Meadowside
AFC Urmston Meadowside has launched a new online fundraising webshop.
AFC Urmston Meadowside is asking it's supporters to shop online at "http://www.buy.at/afcmeds" and raise money for AFC Urmston Meadowside.
Over 100 retailers are accessible through the webshop, including BT, Marks & Spencer, John Lewis and RAC. Many retailers provide exclusive offers to the webshop, such as discounts or offering free delivery to the customer, providing more reasons for supporters to buy products through the webshop.
So, if you shop online and regularly use Marks & Spencer, John Lewis etc. Buy online through "http://www.buy.at/afcmeds" and help raise funds for the new clubhouse.
The webshop is straightforward to use and no technical knowledge is required. The webshop will help raise funds with your help by purchasing through "http://www.buy.at/afcmeds" from retailers such as BT Broadband who offer up to £30 commission for each broadband product purchased through the webshop.
Don Davidson at AFC Urmston Meadowside says: "The webshop facility is such a simple but very effective idea. AFC Meds receive a commission on each purchase you make. Fund Raising for AFC Urmston Meadowside couldn't be easier!"
Trafford School Sports Partnership
The School Sports Partnership scheme links local schools with local sports clubs. Through these links, children are provided with coaching from sports club coaches, normally after hours. In a sense, the running of these sporting activities is contracted out to the local sports club. In order to be invited to join a partnership, the sports club must have a charter mark and be generally recognised as making a significant contribution to the community.
As a result, Urmston Meadowside is the 'football partner' for the Flixton 'family' of schools which includes Flixton Infants, Flixton Junior, St Mary’s Primary, Woodhouse Primary, Kingsway Primary and Flixton Girls High. Meds run the 3 Lions Coaching programme for these schools.
The Lees Field Development
The Club is pushing ahead with its plans to build a new Clubhouse at our Lees Field site with a new 6 changing room facility, which will also incorporate a kitchen and Café/Meeting Room. The project is supported by Trafford Council (Sports Development) and the Manchester FA. Funding for the project will be sought from various avenues with the main funding application directed towards the Football Foundation. There are many fund raising activities on the go. The Club will also be seeking corporate sponsorship to try to meet any shortfalls in the total cost. It is intended that the facility will be shared with local schools and youth groups.
Friendship in Sport
Our senior mens team recently visited Anglesey in North Wales to play local club Llangoed F.C.
Meds won the game 7-1
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Pictured right is Meds skipper, Kirk Kaylor and the Llangoed captain.
Pictures below are from the U15s game against Kirkwood FC from Delaware,
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