Durham Amateur Football Trust are delighted to announce the award of a substantial new grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, focussing on a Youth Development Project.
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The award will see the Trust employing an Education Development Worker for the twelve month period over which the project will run.
The new project has four main aims:
1. To engage a group of young people (aged 13-25) with the region's sporting heritage by giving them a full understanding of the skills necessary to create an exhibition, website and opening event
2. To supervise this group in creating an exhibition, website and opening night - concentrating on the social aspect of the 'Glory Days' of amateur football in the north-east to engage others with this heritage
3. To act as a learning resource, including the planning and delivery of workshops, structured talks and learning resources, for GCSE and A-level Physical Education students who need to develop a 'deep understanding of the development of (local) football from pre-industrial Britain through to the modern day' as part of their curriculum
4. To engage a Volunteer Task Group to digitize a rare collection of 'Sporting Pink' newspapers and to widen access to these as a reference and research aid via an online presence
If anyone would like to become involved with the new grant, then please get in contact, either by:
telephoning: 01388 772524
e-mailing: daft.office@btconnect.com
or via the website
