Cash boosts for junior soccer

FOOTBALL:

GRASS roots football in Oldham has been given two £5,000 “Grow the Game” grants by the Football Foundation.

The monely, from the the country’s largest sports charity, will allow Chadderton FC Juniors to continue its community work and develop disability football opportunities at the club.

The club currently offers coaching sessions for primary school children with hearing impairments.

Oldham Greenhill FC’s award will allow club officials to enter two more teams in local weekly leagues at under-10 and under-11 level, and hire qualified coaches.

Grow the Game funding increases participation in football by helping clubs to provide opportunities for new players or for training volunteers to support teams.

So far the charity has handed out 874 separate grants worth around £4.2m.



TWO of Chadderton FC Juniors’ coaches, Jacob Snelson and Finn Markham, have been awarded the David Knight Memorial Trophy at the club’s annual presentation evening.

The trophy is awarded to people who work beyond expectations to improve the club.

Jacob and Finn were runners-up in this year’s Oldham Sports Awards Young Volunteer of the Year category.

The pair help to organize weekly training sessions for six to 11-year-old girls. They also, after school, supported disability coaching and mini-soccer festivals with primary schools partnered with Radclyffe and North Chadderton schools.