Treddlehoyle & Kingstone Junior Football Club in Pogmoor, Barnsley is representing Yorkshire and The Humber in the video which is being produced by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to promote the work of the Government Office in this region and across the country.
The video will be used for internal publicity and aimed at a wide cross-section of staff in the Government Office network, plus national, regional and local partners and stakeholders including other government departments, local authorities, the business community and voluntary and community organisations.
Treddlehoyle & Kingstone Junior Football Club are being featured in the video as they have benefited from a Community Chest grant from Barnsley Community and Voluntary Network, who manage the fund on behalf of Government Office for Yorkshire and The Humber. Community Chests are small grants given to strengthen community and learning activities. The Yorkshire and Humber region has received just over £10 million of funding that has been distributed to groups across the region by Government Office and Neighbourhood Renewal organisations.
Media are invited to attend the filming during a team training session which takes place at Barnsley Cricket and Rugby Club, Shaw Lane, Barnsley at 9.30am on Tuesday 4 April. Please contact Alice Insley at GNN on 0113 283 6605 if you wish to attend.
The grant provided the club with a lifeline when it nearly folded because of the lack of assistance. It has since gone on to gain remarkable success both on and off the field. When the club received the grant they were the first team to advertise the logo of Kids Against Drugs on the new club shirts. This was a great success and there are now six teams with over 100 children displaying this logo as a constant safety reminder.
The aim of the club is to strengthen moral and social skills and the general well-being of young children. They also provide an outlet for all young people to participate either by playing or showing active involvement in supporting youngsters. They want the kids to play as much football as possible to build character and teach the value of respect for oneself, the other participants, officials, spectators and for the game. Most of all they want the players, coaches and parents to have fun.
Programme Officer Jude Hopson, at Government Office for Yorkshire and The Humber, who is also taking part in the video says:
"Grants of up to £5,000 can be paid towards individual projects and the Treddlehoyle and Kingstone football club is a great example of how such small pots of money can make a real difference. It's raising the aspirations of kids in the area and improving their quality of life. Local people are the ones who live, breathe and work in their neighbourhoods and it's only right that funds like this are accessible to them. Communities get really passionate about the impact projects like this can make. Thanks to this initiative children are getting fitter, learning to tolerate one another and most of all they're having fun."
