The Big Issue in the
North’s football coaching arm, the Social Academy, will be giving
Wirral youngsters the chance to experience team play when it teams
up with Liverpool FC community coaches to run two football
camps.
The Social Academy – funded by employment and
skills specialists Working Links - trains socially excluded,
unemployed people to coach football, and graduates of the academy
will be using their new teaching skills to pass on football skills
to both boys and girls aged six to 14.
The football camps will be held from 10am to
3pm, 27 to 29 July and 3 to 5 August at the Oval Sports Centre,
Bebington, Wirral.
The Big Issue in the North’s Social Academy
Director Richard Brown said: “The football camps will be a
fantastic opportunity for the people that we have been working with
since September last year.
“They have made massive progress, and this
camp will be the first steps on the road to becoming a football
coach.”
Richie Ellison, Working Links’ Sports
Development and Social Inclusion Manager, said: “Sport is a great
way of taking people out of poverty and social exclusion and
bringing them into society. The programmes we run continue to bear
fruit and help turn peoples’ lives around.”
The Social Academy football coach trainees are
all currently working towards their Level 1 coaching certificates,
and will be running the Bebington football camps alongside
Liverpool FC’s own community coaches.
To enrol onto this year’s football camp at the Oval please
contact 0151 702 6932.