Stanley Community Trust round up the week, and what a week its been!

Stanley Community Trust round up the week, and what a week its been!

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Monday night saw the return of our popular Football Development Centres held at Accrington Academy School.

The sessions cater for all children aged 4-9, boys and girls. The sessions are a fun way to learn new skills and help develop your child into a better player; sessions cover a range of footballing topics followed by small sided games. We have been running the football development centres since 2010 and have seen a large number of children developing and enjoying their football over this time.

Sport Development Officer Lee Walsh explains ‘the sessions cater for everybody, whether it’s your first time playing football or you’re a regular player you will find each week extremely enjoyable’.

The times for the session are as follows: 4-6 year olds 17:30 – 18:30pm and 7-9 year olds 18:30 – 19:30pm.

The cost of a session is just £3 when booked online or £3.50 if you turn up on the night. For more info and to book your child’s place click here  or give us a call on 01254 304071

Further to this we are resuming our popular Little Stanley Kickers football sessions for children aged 2-4 years old this Saturday.

Stanley Kickers

Little Stanley Kickers is designed to cater for children aged two to four years old who are taking their first steps into football. They are parent friendly, child specific and provide an introduction to the basic skills of football. Each child works with their own ball and this enables them to learn to master ball skills from an early age.

The sessions also use football as a means to achieve the following:

  • Improve body awareness, mobility and fitness.
  • Improve balance and coordination.
  • Develop initial literacy and numeracy skills.
  • Increase self-confidence.

The classes are structured in such a way that parents are able to take away short activities to play with their children at home. We actively encourage you to practice at home, thereby promoting physical activity throughout the week and encouraging structured play. This type of activity forms a vital part of a young child’s development and lays the foundation upon which all later learning depends.

Running every Saturday 9.30am to 10.30am costing £3.50 on the day or book online to get a discount.

Early this week our coaches visited The House in Huncoat in association with Hyndburn Homes to deliver a multi-sport session with the children. The session was carried out to engage the children to participate in sports in their holidays. Our coaches played cricket, hockey, football and skittles with the children.   It was lovely to see the children get involved with the different sports we put on. We hope they had as much fun as we did!’ commented Lee Walsh

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We have spaces available for new teams to join our very popular Stanley Soccer League.

The Stanley Soccer League is a professionally managed small sided league which was set up in Accrington in 2011. The ultimate test for your 7 a-side team is to join one of our leagues. We have leagues on a Monday running at Accrington Academy and a Wednesday running from Hyndburn leisure Centre

The Stanley Soccer League sees all matches played on state of the art 3G field turf. Matches are played across a third of a pitch with 7 a-side goals at either end. Referees and a league co-ordinator are provided to ensure we offer a great service to our teams. Prizes are fantastic and see your full team invited to an Accrington Stanley match and presented with a trophy at half time in front of thousands of supporters. There are also prizes throughout the year from our league sponsors.

There is no registration fee and a low weekly cost of £25 per team, making us the cheapest league in the area. 24 teams compete in each of the Monday and Wednesday divisions. Martin Fearon, Community manager said ‘It’s great to have so many local teams involved and to be able to play on such state of the art pitches’.

 To enter a team please go to: http://www.stanleytrust.co.uk/enter-team/

 Refs

Don’t fancy playing, but fancy refereeing these matches? Then look no further, we are looking for local qualified referees to officiate in our two amateur 7 a side leagues. If you would like to hear more about this paid opportunity please email admin@stanleytrust.co.uk or call 01254 304071. Even if you can only commit to one of the nights please get in touch.

Our Friday night football sessions for 14-19 year olds FREE of charge at Hyndburn Leisure Centre continue to run until the 17th June 6pm to 8pm with our qualified coaches delivering the coaching and holding informal competitions on the new 3G pitch. Come and join in the fun!

See you all next week!

 

 

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