Cardiff City Football Club’s Premier League Kicks Hero


League we’re able to provide high quality activities and support young people to achieve their full potential.” Premier League Executive Chairman Richard Scudamore


said: “Premier League Kicks delivers sessions for young people where they are needed most, connecting football clubs with their communities in a meaningful sustainable way.”


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MYTH BUSTERS!


Cory Cleaver, 17, from Ely, Cardiff , has been named by Cardiff City Football Club as the team’s Premier League Kicks Hero in the year that the youth outreach programme celebrates its 10-year anniversary. Cory was presented with a personalised Premier League Kicks Hero comic illustration at the Bluebirds’ home fi xture against Bolton last month, as part of the Premier League’s 10-year celebration of the Kicks programme. Cory has been recognised for transforming from a disruptive and quick tempered young person into a senior Premier League Kicks participant and group leader within


his Caerau & Ely Kicks sessions. His story has


been


immortalised in a comic illustration by renowned British Marvel Comics artist John McCrea, as part of the Premier League’s 10-year celebration of Kicks. Premier League Kicks is a youth outreach programme with the aim to create safer, stronger and more respectful communities through the development of young peoples’ potential, whilst giving young people access to facilities, coaching and mentoring. In its fi rst decade, Premier League Kicks has engaged more than 180,000 young people


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in weekly football, sport and personal development sessions held at local community venues across the UK. 68 Premier League, English Football League and National League clubs now run the programme. Since the start of Cardiff City’s delivery of Premier League Kicks in October 2013 more than 2,500 young people have engaged in its weekly FREE sports sessions across South Wales.


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Over 400 of the young people engaged have been female and 22% of all participants are BME demographic. Over 1,700 sessions have been delivered within the 4 years of delivery. Cory said: “Premier League Kicks has been a great opportunity for me to progress as a young person and learn from the Cardiff


City


Foundation coaches that have acted a role models for me. I am very pleased to have been a part of Premier League Kicks since September 2015 and now be part of the Cardiff


City


Foundation BTEC Level 3 programme.” Cardiff


City FC


Community Foundation Director Gavin Hawkey added: “Cory’s journey is an illustration of the power of football to help build more cohesive, resilient and prosperous communities. “Thanks to the continued support of the Premier


FOSTER CARERS CAN:


• Be male or female. • Be single, married, divorced, widowed or living with a partner.


Who can apply to become a Foster Carer ?


• Own your own home, or rent, however your accommodation needs to be stable.


• Have a disability. • Be employed, unemployed or retired. • Be heterosexual or in a same sex relationship.


• Be a parent, step parent, single parent or you may never have had children of your own.


AGE: There is no upper age limit but you do have to be over 21 years of age and be in good general health.


MYTH BUSTERS! You will need to have a spare bedroom.


FOSTER CARERS CAN: Be male or female.


Be single, married, divorced, widowed or living with a partner. Own your own home, or rent, however your accommodation needs to be stable. Have a disability.


FOSTER CARERS HAVE SOME THINGS IN COMMON:


Be a parent, step parent, single parent or you may never have had children of your own.


• They all love children. • They all work as part of a team. • They are understanding and patient. • They have lots of energy and a sense of humour.


Be employed, unemployed or retired. Be heterosexual or in a same sex relationship.


AGE: There is no upper age limit but you do have to be over 21 years of age and be in good general health. You will need to have a spare bedroom.


• They don’t give up easily when the going gets tough.


FOSTER HAVE SOME THINGS IN COMMON: They all love children.


All we ask is that you like children and parenting, and that you have space in your home and your heart to care enthusiastically and with dedication for someone else’s child.


Blaenau Gwent Placement Team, Family Resource Centre, Beaufort Road, Ebbw Vale, NP23 5LH.


Blaenau Gwent Placement Team, Family Resource Centre, Beaufort Road, Ebbw Vale, NP23 5LH.


Telephone/text: Fostering Enquiry Line – 07791344886 Email: fostering@blaenau-gwent.gov.uk


Telephone/text: Fostering Enquiry Line – 07890312429 Email: fostering@blaenau-gwent.gov.uk


All we ask is that you like children and parenting, and that you have space in your home and your heart to care enthusiastically and with dedication for someone else’s child.


They all work as part of a team. They are understanding and patient. They have lots of energy and a sense of humour. They don’t give up easily when the going gets tough.


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