Richard Luscombe Argyle Community Trust, the official charity for Plymouth Argyle Football Club, has received a £12,000 award from Ginsters’ parent company Samworth Brothers. The funding will enable the Trust to launch the highly successful Premier League Kicks programme in Callington from September 2017, with more new satellites planned across Cornwall.
The Samworth Brothers Sports Opportunity Fund was launched in 2013. It supports sports projects close to Samworth Brothers’ businesses such as Ginsters. The Fund has so far awarded or committed more than £1 million to clubs and organisations working with young people, including youngsters from disadvantaged backgrounds, in a range of sports and activities such as football, cricket, basketball and wheelchair basketball, riding for the disabled, swimming, boxing, martial arts and volleyball.
PL Kicks is one of the flagship programmes offered by the Argyle Community Trust and also one of the longest-running, with the central objective of reducing crime and anti-social behaviour in areas without easy access to professional football coaching. It has been active in Plymouth for the last nine years and over the last 18 months, it has been extending its reach into Cornwall. The project uses football and multi-sports as a tool to break down barriers between young people and authority. It has been proven to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour during session times over the last decade.
Mark Lovell, Head of Community at Argyle Community Trust, said “We are incredibly thankful to have received funding from the Samworth Brothers Sports Opportunity Fund which will enable us to deliver PL Kicks in Callington. We are delighted to be working alongside Ginsters, at a local level, on this project; they’ve been fantastic in their support.”
Paul Berne, Finance Director at Ginsters, said “We are delighted that our funding has enabled Argyle Community Trust to extend the reach of its successful PL Kicks programme into Ginsters home town of Callington. Sport, and football in particular, provides a powerful platform to engage young people and I’m sure the team at Argyle Community Trust will make a huge success of the programme in our local community.”
For more information on how you can be involved and to view the session times for satellites across Devon and Cornwall, please visit www.argylecommunitytrust.co.uk or contact dan.hart@pafc.co.uk . Alternatively, call our Community main office on 01752 562561 ext.4.
For more information on the Samworth Brothers Sports Opportunity Fund or to nominate a club, email:- sportsopportunityfund@samworthbrothers.co.uk
