Crawley youth soccer membership wins The FA and McDonald’s award for its ‘grassroot’ work

Maidenbower Colts FC is a wholly volunteer run, grassroots youth soccer membership established in 1998 and based mostly in Crawley.

The membership has round 175 registered youth gamers from U7 to U17/18. It additionally has a relaunched ‘Mini Colt’s’ part for enjoyable, and accessible for all, soccer periods for kids in reception and yr 1.

Maidenbower Colts play throughout Sussex and Surrey within the Crawley & District Youth Soccer League, the Mid-Sussex Youth Soccer League, the Horsham & District Youth Soccer League and the South Surrey Youth Soccer League.

Membership Improvement Officer Richard Coleman stated: “The 21/22 Season has been an extremely difficult interval for our membership, gamers and households. And, due to this, this season we’ve got focussed on the themes of household, neighborhood and membership.

“Through the pandemic, we’ve got managed to maintain the membership steady (while many different grassroots soccer golf equipment very sadly needed to fold), develop the membership and even improve what we’re capable of supply our soccer household.

“From participant, guardian, coach and committee member, we must always all be extremely happy with what we’ve got achieved collectively throughout such an unsure and daunting interval.

“Our Gamers have proven such inspiring resilience, demonstrated by them by how they signify our membership on the pitches of Sussex every week!”

Among the initiatives that the membership has put in place to assist assist its gamers and neighborhood embrace: 5k/10k Ball Dribble Problem, Forza Soccer Academy Ball Mastery Programme, Instructional Partnership with Youth Sport Vitamin plus many extra.

A spokesperson for the Sussex County FA stated: “We’re delighted to announce that Maidenbower Colts has received our Grassroots Membership of the Yr Award as a part of The FA and McDonald’s Grassroots Soccer Awards.

“They’ve proven they’re greater than only a soccer membership and definitely greater than what occurs on the pitch. Colts care about gamers wellbeing, well being, and sense of value.

“Both via serving to them get re-motivated out of lockdown, targeted on what it’s they need to obtain (Participant /Assistant Coach / Referee) or giving them assist to make selections on careers.”