Posted on 26th October 2010
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
Today marks the final day of Kick It Out’s the 2010 One Game One Community weeks of action. With more than 1,000 activities taking place over the past two weekends, the campaign is widely considered sport’s largest equality and community engagement initiative.
While the activities are often synonymous with badges worn by managers and t-shirts by their players there’s also a lot more going on which impacts on local communities and grassroots football. Many groups have used the weeks of action as a launch pad to build links with local professional clubs and County FAs.
One Game One Community acts as a focal point in supporting teachers, and others who work with young people, to use football within a learning environment to explore issues around race, equality and diversity. While Kick It Out was originally set up as an anti-racism initiative its scope has expanded with matters concerning gender, sexual orientation, religion and disability now as much a part of the campaign’s remit as race and skin colour were back in 1993.
The One Game One Community weeks of action rely on volunteers organising their own events, often in partnership with local schools. Kick It Out suggest contacting your local professional club to see if they can send a speaker into a local school or to see whether you can get involved in the activities they will be planning.
More suggestions are available on the Kick It Out site and you can tell Kick It Out about your event via events@kickitout.org. If you’d like to be involved in future Kick It Out work sign up to their e-bulletin from this link.
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At this year’s FSF awards we’re instituting a new category to recognise the efforts of non-league clubs and their supporters who, despite huge challenges and tight budgets, ensure the survival of the game outside the professional leagues. In the first half of a two-part blog, Maria Horner introduces three of this year’s nominees…
At this year’s FSF awards we’re instituting a new category to recognise the efforts of non-league clubs and their supporters who, despite huge challenges and tight budgets, ensure the survival of the game outside the professional leagues. In the second half of a two-part blog, Maria Horner introduces the final three of this year’s nominees…
‘Look! They’ve all worn the away strip for today,’ said the old man in the flat cap behind me. I looked across to my left to the Leicester supporters in the away section and they were indeed wearing the same colour shirts. But it was not the team’s regular grey away strip, rather white tee shirts bearing a picture of their late chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and their tribute to him in a simple two word message, ‘The Boss.’
This season we’ve teamed up with The Non-League Magazine to promote the role and impact supporters can have at non-league level. The FSF’s Andy Walsh tells us more about what’s in this month’s edition – a digital version is free to FSF members here…
