August 29, 2023 • 41 mins
No One Likes Us Talkin Podcast visited the Millwall Community Trust's free Holiday, Activity and Food (HAF) Programme to find out more about the camps at St Paul’s Sports Ground, Rotherhithe to find out more about the MCT’s work delivered in the local community during the summer school holidays.
Throughout the day at St. Paul’s Sports Ground, Jeff Burnige and Myles Thornton from The NOLU Talkin team spoke to MCT Trustee Sir Simon Hughes about how the holiday camps impact the local community in a positive way.
Following on from that, Tim Sells - Millwall Community Trust’s Football and Sports Development Manager - was asked about the different venues the camps were held at and how much the community benefits from the MCT’s work.
Patricio Fenick-Sanchez, Football and Sports Development Officer for Millwall Community Trust spoke about healthy eating, free hot meals, and the well-delivered sessions at the camp.
Children, carers, and other users of the St. Paul's facility also give their views.
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Throughout the day at St. Paul’s Sports Ground, Jeff Burnige and Myles Thornton from The NOLU Talkin team spoke to MCT Trustee Sir Simon Hughes about how the holiday camps impact the local community in a positive way.
Following on from that, Tim Sells - Millwall Community Trust’s Football and Sports Development Manager - was asked about the different venues the camps were held at and how much the community benefits from the MCT’s work.
Patricio Fenick-Sanchez, Football and Sports Development Officer for Millwall Community Trust spoke about healthy eating, free hot meals, and the well-delivered sessions at the camp.
Children, carers, and other users of the St. Paul's facility also give their views.
Music credits: https://www.FesliyanStudios.com Background Music
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Hello. My name's Amon Barclay andI'm a member of the No One Likes
Us Talking broadcasting team. This month, our team visited Middle Community Trust free
Holiday Activity and Food Program at SaintPaul's Sports Ground Rotherhive to find out more
about the MCT's work delivered in thelocal community during the summer school holidays.
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Our first interview was made by teammember Jeff Burnige when he spoke to MCT
trustee and former Burmersey MP Sir SimonHughes. This is Jeff Burnish and we're
here at Saint Paul's in Salter ofOld Hi today Simon exactly is going on
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today, Jeff, good morning,Good morning to our friends. This Sunday
day. We're down at St.Paul's and I'm looking at in front of
me sixty youngsters taking part in afree program that's on every weekday over August.
We call it our Holiday Activity andFood Program. So youngsters come here
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from tential two and we've not justgot a full number here, but we've
got people on the waiting list aswell. They come here, they are
playing all sorts of sports at themoment, football at the moment, learning
skills each of them with a coachworking within each of the four small groups.
I can see in front of me. There's fresh fruit, fruit when
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you come in, there's fresh fruitall day. There's a hot meal that
will come in for them all everyday, don't have to pay for.
And also as well as the footballand other activities, it builds the sense
of being value been respected, developingyour skills, developing a team work and
it means that for parents and familiesand carers they've had a chance of their
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youngsters having really fulfilled days, havinga really good time without it costing their
family anything. And that's very importantfor lots of families. They need for
youngsters full of energy to have placeswhere they can go and do profitable things.
They can be safe. We're ina safe environment and they can be
looked after and they will go homethis afternoon and every afternoon having had a
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good dinner in their homes. Butit isn't only here at some polls that
this is going on. The millWall are doing this all summer long at
various locations around both the London boroughsof Southolk and Lewisham. The mill Carouser
Trust principally works in the two boroughsof Lewisham and SOUTHOK. This is SOUTHOK.
There are two other venues in SOUTHOK. There's one down in the Bradfield
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Boys Club which is Badfield Club nowdown in Peckham. There's one in Camberwell,
so there are two further south inthe borough and then across the frontier
Interluisim there's one at the Lions Centerwhich is our headquarters building next to the
den up in depth with just overthe border. And then there's one further
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down at the new Righty Center whichI haven't been to yet but it's down
further south in Lusium. So thereare local centers across the two boroughs and
the whole idea of all Community Trusthas always beaten to offer engagement with the
community, particularly across the two boroughs. We don't limit it to the two
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boroughs, but there are that's thehome manner, that's that's where we want
to look after people most and weknow that the need is huge and the
demand is huge and the response ishuge and we have a brilliant skilled team
of people. We have about twentypeople on the our pay roll. We
get people in to help freelance.Everybody is obviously DBS checked. Everybody is
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absolutely not just really good at workingwith children, but can produce the secure
environment and also it gives these youngstersthings that they can look forward to that
go on around the year. Soyes, this is a summer holiday program,
but we do a program all theyear around. We do things all
the year around, and we don'tjust do things for young people. We
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were just talking to one of ourcolleagues further down the road at Lewisham asked
for us to do some work witholder children above fourteen. So this is
up to This is basically for primaryschool as youngsters, but we do work
now with fourteen to eighteen year oldsor twelve to sixteen year olds, so
because there's a need for them tohave activity, we obviously do work with
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adults. We do work walking football. One of the great heroes of the
walking football community at Millwall was aguy called Totyed in Fourth Hall very sadly
has just passed away of cancer.He kept doing the walking football until literally
his last days. Try to encouragepeople to realize that actually, even if
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you're dealing with potentially final owners,well being matters and health matters and activity
matters, So the whole of theage range from nursery and primary school children
right up to people well over atime at aide. And then lastly we
do things that you wouldn't associate,possibly with an organization called Milwall Community Trust,
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which is providing education for people whoyoungsters who are more comfortable coming to
us for schooling than going into aconventional school. The attraction of being in
a football related environment actually makes themwant to come to school rather than not
go to school. We're doing workwith the colleges locally to produce post school
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skills, after school skills and qualifications. We are working with people in the
National Health Service. During the pandemic, we specifically went in to do things
for them so to relieve the pressureon the nurses and the frontline staff.
We would their shopping, we woulddo their jobs for them, we would
provide food for them, we wouldtry and help them out. So there's
a whole range of activities and actuallyquite far away now that we've developing our
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new training ground facilities down in Kent, we're hoping to be doing the same
in that part of Kent, whichas the Seven Notes District. Again,
because you may surprise fruples and nopeople say they can't be very much need
in Kent. Kent's all very affluentand well off. Well, there are
affluent, well off bits of Kent, just as are affluent and well off
bits of Burmancy and the other hivethan southern Conduction. But there are also
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places where people live in very lowquality were entered accommodation, people live with
very little spare income, and Kentactually has some of the most deprived communities
in the country. So the reachand we're all community trusted to us,
the numbers of people, the phenomenals, but just look at the joy on
the faces of the girls and boyswho are here. This is absolutely the
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sort of good way to spend yoursummer. Great thoughts there from Simon on
what go is on at the MillCommunity Trust summer camps and beyond where it
explains what happens in other areas ofinterest for the Trust. Next up we're
hear from Jeff again, this timewith two participants in the program that took
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place at Rotherhive. So now I'vegot two of the children who are at
the summer camp. It's a brotherand a sister. It's Matthius and Magda.
So starting with you, Matthius,what is your favorite bit of the
summer camp? Hello? Playing thematches? You're like playing the matches,
right? Do you enjoy working withthe coaches? Yes? And what do
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you think you've improved the most bybeing here? Running? Running and cheating?
As I'm interviewing you, now,you've just had your lunch? What
was it like? Good? Itwas good? Okay? What about you?
Magda? I hear that you're veryuseful at the end of a session.
You always help the coaches, areup all the cones and things like
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that. Is that right? Yeah? Do you enjoy doing that? And
what of you think you've improved inyour football while you've been at the camp.
Do you think it's your passing oryou're running or shootings shooting? Do
you get to play normally every weekor don't get much opportunity ever? Since
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I haven't been playing here, I'mreally looking for like a new football club
for like maybe three or four years. And what school did you go to
the same school? What school doyou go to? Magna James s James,
Yes, okay, thank you verymuch. Now go back and finish
off your lunch. Well, Von, what wonderful children. They certainly seem
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to enjoy themselves at the summer camps. Next up, Miles Thornton, a
member of the No One Likes ThisTalking Team, speaks with Tim Cells,
Middle Community Trust Football and Sports DevelopmentManager. Hell, everybody, I'm here
with Tim Cells, Tim High.I'm very good Miles, Thanks a lot.
How are you? Yeah, I'mgood fans mate, And tell us
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about what you do here and what'shappening today. Basically, today we've got
our program running, which is ourholiday activity and food program. So at
the moment, as you can see, we've got roughly around seventy kids out
there enjoying free activity and multi sports. Wonderful. And tell us a bit
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about the program. What has happens. The programmer has been designed for children
and families who may struggle during thesummer to feed or for their children to
go on these activity camps. Sowe're delighted to receive funding from the local
councils which that allows us to runthese programs for free. So the kids
will come down there are four hoursof physical activity with us, but they
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will also get a free hot mealfor every child, So yeah, it's
a fantastic program. How much ofan impact does this have on the kids
and not only against the parents aswell. I think it's massive, you
know if I'm sure you'll speak tosome of them later, but you know,
to be able to provide this servicefor free is like unbelievable, especially
the areas of deprivation that we havearound here. Sah Yes, a massive,
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massive impact. Thank you very muchto him, Thank yous well.
Tim Seales paints a fantastic picture onthe benefits to both the children and those
that take care from them. AnyYeah. Up next is Jeff Burnage once
again as he continues his talk withSir Simon Hughes. So we've got to
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work with the empasts, We've gotworked with elders, we've got the Lionesses.
We host Fisher Football Cup here aswell on the same site. We
have the license from the Council tendencyfrom the Council Fisher which used to be
Fisher's ground. A Fisher come here. There's also the Romans, which is
the lgb T team which has lastyear won their league in the LGBT League.
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So there's a whole group of peoplewho will will commute to us to
support and work with covering to behonest anybody and everybody in the community on
an equal basis, and it startsat this age. I love all sorts
of sports up so I love cricket, I love tennis. I've the football
is unarguably the game that unites mostpeople, that most people can feel sure
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association with. And the earlier youstart, the better. The earlier you
engage people into people the opportunity andOkay, it's fine to kick about in
the yard or near where you live, but it's not so safe if it's
it's the road. It's much saferif you can go somewhere local, and
most of those youngsters will have comefrom some are not far away from here.
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We've got waiting list. We couldaccommodate more, and I guess there's
a bit of a shout out.If people who are listening think they want
to support or help, you cando so personally by volunteering. You can
come and train and be one ofour coaches if you think you've got the
skills. But you can also contributefinancially. We're always asking for donations from
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our food bout. We're always askingfor people to put some money in the
Kitchief they're willing to do so.I think the thing, the one word
that you mentioned during this interesting talk, has been free. It's wonderful to
the opportunity to provide these things freeof charge, because the very people that
we most want to see down hereare ones that probably have to count the
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pennies more than most. Although ofcourse it's open to all members of the
community. But when World War CommunityScheme first started back in nineteen eighty five,
we did a number of things fornothing, but that didn't prove to
be possible when it expanded. Soseeing this being free, I think we've
got to pay some tribute to MarcusRashford who pointed out the need and that
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stimulated the government into providing some moneyfor local authorities and we've benefited from that
with both Lewisham and Suvolk. Sofor this to be free of Charles,
that gives me a great deal ofpleasure, as I'm sure it does here
as well. I used to bechair of governors for a local primary school,
Saint James's in Burmsey, and thena chair of governors behind me here
Baker's College, which is a secondaryschool, and the reality is that if
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you don't provide either breakfast clubs orafter school clubs or lunch clubs or free
school dinners for those who need them, then often the diet and the health
of youngsters is compromised. And it'simportant to give youngsters healthy and your nutritious
food rather than just the easy tobuy by the checkout in the supermarket.
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So those things are really important,and especially for families who have more than
one child at home, the costsmount up, especially if you know you've
got twins as grandchildren. There arelots of twins. I've simply notice more
and more twins around the black what'sin the air or the food of the
water. But there are lots ofpeople Twitter, there are lots of people
who foster youngsters, and you knowthey can't afford to be taking them out
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every day to Margate or Brighton orsomewhere. I mean, it's just not
realistic and the organization. It's mucheasier to have things on your doorstep where
you know they're safe and healthy andactive, and you know they've burned off
all the calories. They then getthe food and drinks to refresh themselves.
They've burn off more calories and thenwhen they get home they're happy and tired
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and actually quite a lot of Parischarisies. That's quite a good thing too.
They in testing insight from Simon andJeff, examining what else the trust
does to meet the needs of itscommunity, and here you can support the
trust in doing what it needs todo. Up next is Jeff Burnish talking
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with Jim Maycock of Fisher Football Club, who also use the facility at some
Pool's stadium there in Salter Road underthe guardianship of the mill Community Trust.
Well, I've gotten with me JimMaycock, who's the secretary of Fisher Football
Club who share the sort of ownfacility. Jim, what's the relationship like
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between Fisher and Millwall Community Trusts?Couldn't be stronger really in the last few
years. It's grown and grown andgrown, and we're indebted to the Community
Trusts for the work they do inlooking after the site and making the site
available to us, and for theirvery generous sponsorship as well that they provide.
We really couldn't ask for a betterrelationship. What's a situation for any
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Millwall fans when mill were away fromhome? Any possibilities of them coming down
and watching the fish. Yeah,well, we've always run a promotion that
we probably need to get out therea little bit more. At any millall
season ticket holders can get in aFisher for five pounds. We should three
pound reduction. Now you share thestadium with Millwall linesses and it's regionally been
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reconditioned with some more of the blackrubber on it. What's the position,
what's the condition of the pitch now? How do the players feel about it?
It's a fairly old surface now becauseit went down in twenty sixteen when
we first moved back here from Dula'sHamlets, but it stood up reasonably well
and actually I feel watching watching playon it, it behaves like a grass
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pitch does. It's very very rarethat you see any awkward bounces. Some
of the newer three G picchures thathave gone in seemed to get the pool
gets quite large on players quite quickly, and the bounts can be a bit
uneven. But I think the picturesand Paul's plays as well as any free
G pitch i've I've seen it.That's watching both Fisher on a Saturday and
the lightness is on a Sunday onit. A lot of visiting sides praised
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the surface. I know we hadBrentford down here two seasons going in London
see your cup, and they werevery complimentary about the surface and the whole
facility. And I know the CommunityTrust have had people from other community trust
see the surface and see the facilityhere and they're very jealous of what we've
got here at se sixteen. Well, you've been here all day. We're
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watching Mill's summer camp which is freeto all the local kids. How have
you enjoyed watching what's been going on. It never ceases to amaze me,
but I pop in and out andsee the work that the Community Trust too
with the local children, both atthe summer camps, at the development centers
that they run, at the girlssessions that they put on with the Lioness's
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in the quality of the coaching,the engagement that the coaches have with the
children, the relationships that they buildwith all the children. As a school
teacher of herself by profession, isfantastic to see and I can't recommend it
highly enough. Jim, thank youfor that all of us to the fish
this season. Take you. It'salways been a good relationship we've had with
Millwall. We do have a coupleof ex Millwall under eighteens playing for US
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now, Zeke Miller and Connor Darwishboth came through the Millwall Academy and obviously
at the Fisher Athletic days it wasalways a thing that somebody x Millwall pros
came down to play for Fisher duringSome very big names indeed, indeed Tody
Tower and players like that came downin the past, some very big names.
Yeah. Well, thank you verymuch for the interview and for all
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the corporations. Much appreciated you,Jeff Well, great praise indeed from Fisher
Football Clubs Jim Maycock. Jim alsomentioned the Millwall Lionesses and now Jeff and
Simon talk about the mill Wall Lionesseswho also are under the umbrella of the
mill Community Trust here at the noOne like she was talking where we always
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promote every week what the community trustsare doing. We're particularly interested in the
whole thing with women's and girls football, which of course at the moment is
really under an international spotlight with theWomen's World Cup. Millwall and its famous
Millwall Lionesses, the original Lionesses whoare named that England shows to steal from
Millwall actually put it that way.Let's be more collegiate and say adopted.
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They've adopted. I'm personally very proudof the part that we're all played in
the developments of girls and women's football. Millwall linesses themselves, as you know,
they won the FA Cup twice inthe nineties, but probably more importantly,
we absolutely pioneered primary age girls footballwhere nobody in the country was interested
in doing it. It wasn't athing that was considered by parents that was
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suitable for their ten, nine elevenyear olds to be doing. So that's
a source of enormous pride and livelySoo and Jeff, you've paid your half
in that, for which we shouldbe grateful and you've been very very clear
about that. And I used tobe on the board of the London Football
Association as you may know, andwas their first ever independent director and one
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of the priorities we had during thewhole time I came off the board last
year, one of the priorities waswomen's and girls football. And I've worked
with other clubs of work were PeckingFootball Club and other places around London,
to make sure that we seize themoment of the excitement of the English team
having won the European till last year, to make sure that we now provide
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the places for this to happen,because it hasn't happened. You're quite right.
Many schools, many places don't havethe facility, don't have adic pleasures.
But Noll Lionesses have been fantastic,very interesting insight into women's football and
our Mill Lionesses are one of thepioneers of women's football in this country today.
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The Mill Community Trusts are the guardiansof Mill Lionesses and their academy side
and this has been the case fora good few years now and coining a
phrase attributed to Michael Caine. Notmany people know that the Mill Community Trust
do a great job in supporting theneeds of the Mill Lionesses by provide the
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human and physical resources that enables themto function as a football club with its
academy. Next, Miles Taunton speakswith Patricio Phoenix Sanchiz, the football and
Sports development officer for Mill Community Trust, and Miles asks Patricio what he feels
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are the key elements of the HelloEveryone I'm here with Patricia Miles from the
Nolisis Talking Team. You're the headcoach running coordinating this program. How how
do you feel How much of animpact do you think this has on parents
and kids that are in this program. Hi? Everyone, So it's a
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great opportunity for the local area,for the local community to get involved in
the program that mill will offer.I think it's a great opportunity for the
kids to come and have a safespace. There is an area for them
to come and enjoy themselves from themorning to the afternoon. Our program runs
from ten to two. We haveabout seventy kids attending and generally were in
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the morning. We have fun activitiesto get the mind going, lots of
fun games and then it's followed bya healthy lunch in the afterning which is
provided by the council, and thenin the afternoon we then follow it up
with matches, tournaments. We havedifferent scenarios which keeps them engaged, for
example, World Cups, Euros,especially now with the lyonnesses. So it's
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very specific football camp. Everything isaround football. We're trying to teach some
new skills. We also try andencourage sportsmanship. It's massive here at the
beginning of the camp, we sitthem down, we talk about the values
at camp, which I respect themfun, and we ensure that they come
here and they can have a goodtime. That's essentially what it's about,
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because we want the kids to comehere and leave with a big smile on
their face. We also in themornings when they're registering, we put on
some football skills, football related videos, and recently we also have worked with
a company called mind Apples which wehave no workshops which talk about the importance
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of having a healthy lifestyle, sleepingwell, eating properly healthy, going out
for walks. So it's all aboutthe importance of playing football and keeping it
a healthy lifestyle. And it's agreat opportunity for me. I'm really honored
to be able to give this opportunityfor the young kids to come and play,
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especially over the summer the weather helps, and yeah, it's a great
privilege to be able to allow thisopportunity for the young people to play football
in a very safe and good environment. I must say, it's a very
very good opportunity that you guys areputting out there. So thank you and
thanks for doing this interview. Noworries a safe environment, respect and fun.
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No wonder, Patricio is honored totake this program forward, especially when
those kids are beaming with great,big smiles on their faces. Next up,
Jeff Burnish speaks to a parent ofone of the participants. G Day.
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Now, I've got with me oneof the parents day a very local
family and his son, Adamula,is one of the people that comes here
regularly. So, G Day,what do you think your son gets out
of it? Most of all?I think most of all it's he gets
order and structure, and I thinkdiscipline as well as well as being because
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it's sports, it's goes for hisbody and mind and brain. So I
think that I think those are thequalities and the things he gets from from
coming here. And he listens tothe coaches. Does he's a good listener?
Oh yeah, yeah he does.And I think apart from I mean,
it's it's as enhances listening skills.I think the coaches. I think
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the coaches coached him quite well.I think that from what I've observed,
I think that the coaches emphasize thatthat sense of listening and discipline skills.
I think that's a very good thingfor the boys. And does he like
football particularly or is he an allaround sports he kid, Oh, he
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loves his football, I think mostthat's that's the sports he wants to he
likes most of all. Yeah,and he wants he wants to be a
footballer, and yeah, he lovesWe've been We've been coming to Millwall for
some time now, so I thinkthere's a great thing they're doing the community.
Do you come to the evening sessionsthen or what sessions do you come
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to? Well, we've been cominghere. This will be the I think
with the second someone. We've beenhere and other whole of days as well.
Yeah, yeah, so he washe was on the pathway last year.
I mean, this was our introductionand to hear and yeah, so
that's why I said, but that'swhy I'm meant by he's been coming here.
Yes, he was on the talentpathway, which means which means already
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he's he's very good. But ofcourse to end up being a professional footballer.
But they can't grasp it, canthey? What the odds are They're
so long? Yeah, they're solong, but they've got to there's no
harm in trying. No, No, I suppose there isn't. I think
it's. I mean, like Isaid, you know, I think they
trained them very well here, soI've got no doubt that even though the
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odds are well, it's it's it'sI mean, they're not guarante absolute guarantees.
By the fact that he's been trainedand he's been coached, I mean,
he makes him a better individual oraround. Is he playing for a
local Yes, so he was.He just recently left fish of FC,
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which is I think they've got someaffiliation. They have very friendly with them
to Millwall. Hens the reason whyI say we seem to have the sort
of affinity to Millwall football. Yeah. Yeah, Where is it going to
play this coming season? Do youthink? Well, he's moved to Well,
they like the way he's played andso he recently joined a football club
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called f D United. They they'rein Hatford. But he's both for what
it for what I know he's hopingto maybe someday getting to the Millwall academies.
So good luck to him. Well, improving your personal skills is something
that's clear when you come to thesummer camps and Addie Mola has big hopes
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of the future. He hopes tobe an academy player with Millwall. Next
all fan Stan A. Godwin talkswith Miles about the middle community trust while
storing some I'm with Stan Godwins down. How are you? I'm okay,
Miles, I'm okay and that's goodmate. And how much of impact I
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think this has on the community ofthis program? Oh, it's the impact
is growing. I wouldn't say dayby day, but but no. I
mean the last time I was herewas about eighteen months ago and it was
it was quite an impact in butit's even bigger now. And because which
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is good, because a lot ofthe locals now and now identifying mill Wall
and their kids are rather than theLiverpools or the Arsenals or whoever it happens
to me. So I've got anet point of view. It's really good
and and curse if you say footballin general community schemes of one description or
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another was massive part of a footballclub, any football club, as football
teams. I mean, that's theway football is down and that ain't going
to be changing anytime soon. William, Thank you very much, Sam fan
Man and boys. Staying sees benefitsall around and in particular to the football
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club as well as the children andthose that care for them. Here's Jeff
with another participate in child SI.Now I've got another of the players that
have been enjoying the summer camp hereand his name is say hello, Si.
Hello. And you go to schoollocally? Do you yea? Which
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school sub a part primary school?Do you right? Okay? Now what
do you what are you enjoying mostabout coming to the summer camp? And
well, they give us very healthylunches, they teach us new skills,
they learn our side to teach howto be fit. And yeah, I'm
really enjoying. What do you think'simproved in your game from being here when
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I'm playing, Well, since Isince I have not been here, I
can't really play football. But sinceI've come here, I've just learned a
lot of things. I've improved.My fitness has improved actually because a big
difference that I've come here. That'sgood to hear. And it's the only
football that you like? Or doyou like other sports as well? So?
I mean, yeah, I likecover sports, I like basketball,
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I love football and I love Millwall. Oh that's good. That's good to
hear. Thank you very much.That's enjoy the rest of the week.
He took bully well Sion loves hisfootball, he loves being at Saint Paul's,
he loves getting fit. But mostof all, it would appear he
just loves Millwall to Jeff's back ashe introduces Miles Thornton to Simon Hughes,
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Now, why would he want todo that. One other thing that helps
the wheels turn around is the useof volunteers, and we have with us
this morning a young man from thearea, Miles Thornton, who's heard as
support this today and does various thingswith the community trust, including beyond that,
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reporting on Melville Football Club for MaritimeRadio, which is ninety six point
five for those that don't know,and it's audible all the way from here
out to about Erith and Welling andplaces. So Miles is here for the
day. He also takes a greatinterest in the Lionesses with me, Miles,
would you like to ask Simon aquestion? Yes, I mean just
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wondering and how much of an impactdo you think this has on the kids
but also the parents this summerhamp Marles, thank you very much. I think
it's a sort of thing that couldbecome sort of a permanent feature of the
lives of their children. And Isay that because I remember that when we
went on holidays kids. We livedup in the North of England when I
was youngster, and we went toNorth Wales for our holidays and there was
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a there was a beach camp andI used to go and take part in
the beach camp. And I knowthat having done it one year, then
my questions with mom and dad wasare we going back to the same place,
gonna go okay next year? Andso it's something that gives parents and
care as the idea that this isn'ta one day wonder. This is something
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that's available for the whole of themonth of August this year, and our
plan is that we would provide itin future summers. It depends on I'm
getting money. We get funded bySouthern Council and loose from Council and other
charities and other organizations, sometimes somefunding from the Mayor of London some other
places. If families realize that thisis available, then they've got it on
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their places to go for their youngstersand it's easy for them. You live
locally. I live locally. It'smuch easier for all the obvious reasons,
money and organization. It's much easierto come to somewhere local and so I
think it's a great help to them. Bluntly, if you're the parents of
little ones, it's hard work quiteoften, and the more you've got,
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the harder work it is. Ifyou can share that responsibility over the summer
days with other people, it givesyou a bit of downtime, time to
get on the stuff at home,time to have a bit of there's time
to go and do a bit ofshopping, even possibly time to go out
and have a coffee with your mates. Parents need rest and the children as
well. Children are lovely, butyou know if you can have a bit
of a break, so it isreally helpful for them. Last point,
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it helps mental health as well asphysical health. It is proved that sport
is very good for your mental healthand well being because it allows you to
put aside your worries and think aboutwhat you're doing, think about the game
you're playing, or the sport you'replaying, or the trainuity. It's also
good for the mental health and wellbeing of the parents because it just takes
the pressure off, give them achance to breathe have some space and be
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able to plan and organize better.So it's a win win, and it's
really good that you're helping. Thankyou very much for your j I hadn't
heard about marriage. I'm ready.I will know. Make sure I listen
sometimes. But the more people whocan hear about more comming to justus,
the more people who know that thefree Jeff always wants was the free holiday
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activity and food camp is available.Then hopefully the more demander being the as
ahead, the more demand there is, the more likely to get people to
fund us, and the more successfulwe can be. Thank you, Thank
you, Summa talk and enjoy yoursummer as well. Thank you very much.
Jeff always uses a means to anend as they talk about volunteers and
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Miles asks about the benefits to childrenand those that care for them, and
Simon with trays a very clear pointabout the knee for those that care for
children and what they get from achild participate in a summer camp. Final
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thoughts from a participant and his fatherare given to Jeff in the following interview.
Now, I've got with me youngImmanuel, another local young boy.
What school do you go to?Emmanuel? Calvin grow do you right?
Okay? Now you've been coming tothis summer camp this week? Have you
been to one before? Or thisyour first one? I've been to many
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ones here and do you like thema lot? Yeah? Right? And
what's in well? Have you improvedyour game on this week with the help
of the coaches? Dribbling? Dribbling? Right? You left footed or right
footed? Right fasted? Not twofooted? That was the right. I
can still use my left fat aswell. Right? And your coaches have
been encouraging that, have they so? And will you always come every year
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they have one of these maybe otherholidays as well. They do it,
don't they sometimes? Yeah? Good? And your dad, Alex, he's
also here watching, watching what's goingon? Actually it's nearly home time,
so I've managed to catch Alex.But what makes you happy about Emmanuel coming
to a noble summer camp? I'mhappy because I mean, he's moth games
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for him, so it helps himto improve in his skills and his ability
as well. And he's not onthe camp that he comes. He comes
for the normal pathway t Yeah,he's on the pathway training And for him,
what I love is the he lovedit and he wants the he's always
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keen to come for the training.So the passion is there. So I
have as a parent, I haveto support him and he loves the coaching.
He loved the coaching because he saidhe loved the coaching and the way
they train, what they do,the skills they and they are decisive,
you know, intellig It's done forfree, isn't it. Yeah, yeah,
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which is amazing. I think therewas a time when clubs used to
church for summer camp, but Marcuss Ratchford got involved to remember that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and I think that's shame. The
government is putting some money into it. And the kids get here. They
come here, they've got fruits,they've got a hot meal. Sometimes they
take out home for them. Yeah, they hate it themselves. So what's
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the impression of Millvill Football Club thatyou get from coming to these these sessions?
Yeah? This especially this comes butyou know he's free and they get
what they want and is amazing becausehe's saved a lot for the parents,
you know, and at the sametime he keeps the children busy. You're
a football fan. I'm a footballfan. Are you allowed to mention who
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you support? Is? The thingis not really supporting a football club,
but I support they could do youye, which one? This special one?
Right? I think we know whoyou mean. He's currently working in
Italy. Yeah, yes, wellI hope at least Mill's your second club.
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Meal One is fantastic. I'm inbecause I took him for games as
well. Alex, thank you verymuch, Emmanuel, thank you, thank
you, thank you for having Emmanuelenjoys coming to the camp, and Alex's
father is most grateful for the additionalcoaching that improves Alex's skills and ability.
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In closing, we return to JeffBurnage and Simon Hughes as they reflect upon
the benefits of the Minual Community Trustand what it does and how it's perceived
in its community that it serves andbeyond. Let's hear what they had to
say. Well, the thing aboutthe community work is it's done for the
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right reasons. More we'll do thisbecause they want to do it and it's
the right thing to do. Butone of the things that happens as a
result is the reputation of the clubin the area is enhanced because people get
to know where Mill's heart. Ithink I've seen lots of evidence of how
Millbour was so highly regarded in thearea. One example you mentioned earlier was
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the Righty Center, which is that'sIan Wright's project at his old school tournament
in Broccoli. Now I went downthere and we are so welcome there and
the name of Millwall is greatly greatlyappreciated and enhanced in the area by the
work that's done here. So thankyou and all the other trustees Simon for
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the work that you do. Wesupport the team, as you know,
we support Sean who's ac chief Exectiveand his team. We have a particularly
good chief postion actually focused on reachingmore people, on offering our services to
more people, who's absolutely dedicated aroundthe top to doing that with his team,
and he's got a various skilled teamwill work with him. So with
the support, with the support group, with the people at the back of
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the stage who you don't know thenames of they're never famous, but that
they provide the support. And we'vedone a very good and skilled group of
trustee who I hope Sean feels cangive him support. And we're even as
we speak we're trying to make surethat over the summer we get in our
local councilors to come and see whatwe're doing here. We've had much more
engagement in the last couple of yearswith the mayors of Southern Collusion. We've
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had much more engagement with the councilorsand Southern Collusion, and I think people
the word is getting out, andit's not just getting out locally, even
further a field that will come intoTrust means a good community service in all
sorts of ways, not just inrelation to football and not just within the
boundaries of Southern Conlution. Well,what can I say, Middle Community Trust.
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Everyone that's in there, from theCEO through to the trustees, the
staff, the volunteers, anyone that'sassociated with making the Trust and its services
be effective. You're all stars.What a great program to record and thanks
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for the opportunity for our no onelikes his talking team to come to Saint
Paul's and record the thoughts and viewsof all that we came across. And
a big thanks to all those thatgave their views. It was an excellent
day. All the best to theMiddle Community Trust for the future, and
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goodbye from me. I'm and Barclay
Hello. My name's Amon Barclay andI'm a member of the No One Likes
Us Talking broadcasting team. This month, our team visited Middle Community Trust free
Holiday Activity and Food Program at SaintPaul's Sports Ground Rotherhive to find out more
about the MCT's work delivered in thelocal community during the summer school holidays.
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Our first interview was made by teammember Jeff Burnige when he spoke to MCT
trustee and former Burmersey MP Sir SimonHughes. This is Jeff Burnish and we're
here at Saint Paul's in Salter ofOld Hi today Simon exactly is going on
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today, Jeff, good morning,Good morning to our friends. This Sunday
day. We're down at St.Paul's and I'm looking at in front of
me sixty youngsters taking part in afree program that's on every weekday over August.
We call it our Holiday Activity andFood Program. So youngsters come here
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from tential two and we've not justgot a full number here, but we've
got people on the waiting list aswell. They come here, they are
playing all sorts of sports at themoment, football at the moment, learning
skills each of them with a coachworking within each of the four small groups.
I can see in front of me. There's fresh fruit, fruit when
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you come in, there's fresh fruitall day. There's a hot meal that
will come in for them all everyday, don't have to pay for.
And also as well as the footballand other activities, it builds the sense
of being value been respected, developingyour skills, developing a team work and
it means that for parents and familiesand carers they've had a chance of their
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youngsters having really fulfilled days, havinga really good time without it costing their
family anything. And that's very importantfor lots of families. They need for
youngsters full of energy to have placeswhere they can go and do profitable things.
They can be safe. We're ina safe environment and they can be
looked after and they will go homethis afternoon and every afternoon having had a
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good dinner in their homes. Butit isn't only here at some polls that
this is going on. The millWall are doing this all summer long at
various locations around both the London boroughsof Southolk and Lewisham. The mill Carouser
Trust principally works in the two boroughsof Lewisham and SOUTHOK. This is SOUTHOK.
There are two other venues in SOUTHOK. There's one down in the Bradfield
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Boys Club which is Badfield Club nowdown in Peckham. There's one in Camberwell,
so there are two further south inthe borough and then across the frontier
Interluisim there's one at the Lions Centerwhich is our headquarters building next to the
den up in depth with just overthe border. And then there's one further
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down at the new Righty Center whichI haven't been to yet but it's down
further south in Lusium. So thereare local centers across the two boroughs and
the whole idea of all Community Trusthas always beaten to offer engagement with the
community, particularly across the two boroughs. We don't limit it to the two
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boroughs, but there are that's thehome manner, that's that's where we want
to look after people most and weknow that the need is huge and the
demand is huge and the response ishuge and we have a brilliant skilled team
of people. We have about twentypeople on the our pay roll. We
get people in to help freelance.Everybody is obviously DBS checked. Everybody is
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absolutely not just really good at workingwith children, but can produce the secure
environment and also it gives these youngstersthings that they can look forward to that
go on around the year. Soyes, this is a summer holiday program,
but we do a program all theyear around. We do things all
the year around, and we don'tjust do things for young people. We
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were just talking to one of ourcolleagues further down the road at Lewisham asked
for us to do some work witholder children above fourteen. So this is
up to This is basically for primaryschool as youngsters, but we do work
now with fourteen to eighteen year oldsor twelve to sixteen year olds, so
because there's a need for them tohave activity, we obviously do work with
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adults. We do work walking football. One of the great heroes of the
walking football community at Millwall was aguy called Totyed in Fourth Hall very sadly
has just passed away of cancer.He kept doing the walking football until literally
his last days. Try to encouragepeople to realize that actually, even if
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you're dealing with potentially final owners,well being matters and health matters and activity
matters, So the whole of theage range from nursery and primary school children
right up to people well over atime at aide. And then lastly we
do things that you wouldn't associate,possibly with an organization called Milwall Community Trust,
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which is providing education for people whoyoungsters who are more comfortable coming to
us for schooling than going into aconventional school. The attraction of being in
a football related environment actually makes themwant to come to school rather than not
go to school. We're doing workwith the colleges locally to produce post school
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skills, after school skills and qualifications. We are working with people in the
National Health Service. During the pandemic, we specifically went in to do things
for them so to relieve the pressureon the nurses and the frontline staff.
We would their shopping, we woulddo their jobs for them, we would
provide food for them, we wouldtry and help them out. So there's
a whole range of activities and actuallyquite far away now that we've developing our
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new training ground facilities down in Kent, we're hoping to be doing the same
in that part of Kent, whichas the Seven Notes District. Again,
because you may surprise fruples and nopeople say they can't be very much need
in Kent. Kent's all very affluentand well off. Well, there are
affluent, well off bits of Kent, just as are affluent and well off
bits of Burmancy and the other hivethan southern Conduction. But there are also
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places where people live in very lowquality were entered accommodation, people live with
very little spare income, and Kentactually has some of the most deprived communities
in the country. So the reachand we're all community trusted to us,
the numbers of people, the phenomenals, but just look at the joy on
the faces of the girls and boyswho are here. This is absolutely the
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sort of good way to spend yoursummer. Great thoughts there from Simon on
what go is on at the MillCommunity Trust summer camps and beyond where it
explains what happens in other areas ofinterest for the Trust. Next up we're
hear from Jeff again, this timewith two participants in the program that took
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place at Rotherhive. So now I'vegot two of the children who are at
the summer camp. It's a brotherand a sister. It's Matthius and Magda.
So starting with you, Matthius,what is your favorite bit of the
summer camp? Hello? Playing thematches? You're like playing the matches,
right? Do you enjoy working withthe coaches? Yes? And what do
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you think you've improved the most bybeing here? Running? Running and cheating?
As I'm interviewing you, now,you've just had your lunch? What
was it like? Good? Itwas good? Okay? What about you?
Magda? I hear that you're veryuseful at the end of a session.
You always help the coaches, areup all the cones and things like
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that. Is that right? Yeah? Do you enjoy doing that? And
what of you think you've improved inyour football while you've been at the camp.
Do you think it's your passing oryou're running or shootings shooting? Do
you get to play normally every weekor don't get much opportunity ever? Since
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I haven't been playing here, I'mreally looking for like a new football club
for like maybe three or four years. And what school did you go to
the same school? What school doyou go to? Magna James s James,
Yes, okay, thank you verymuch. Now go back and finish
off your lunch. Well, Von, what wonderful children. They certainly seem
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to enjoy themselves at the summer camps. Next up, Miles Thornton, a
member of the No One Likes ThisTalking Team, speaks with Tim Cells,
Middle Community Trust Football and Sports DevelopmentManager. Hell, everybody, I'm here
with Tim Cells, Tim High.I'm very good Miles, Thanks a lot.
How are you? Yeah, I'mgood fans mate, And tell us
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about what you do here and what'shappening today. Basically, today we've got
our program running, which is ourholiday activity and food program. So at
the moment, as you can see, we've got roughly around seventy kids out
there enjoying free activity and multi sports. Wonderful. And tell us a bit
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about the program. What has happens. The programmer has been designed for children
and families who may struggle during thesummer to feed or for their children to
go on these activity camps. Sowe're delighted to receive funding from the local
councils which that allows us to runthese programs for free. So the kids
will come down there are four hoursof physical activity with us, but they
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will also get a free hot mealfor every child, So yeah, it's
a fantastic program. How much ofan impact does this have on the kids
and not only against the parents aswell. I think it's massive, you
know if I'm sure you'll speak tosome of them later, but you know,
to be able to provide this servicefor free is like unbelievable, especially
the areas of deprivation that we havearound here. Sah Yes, a massive,
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massive impact. Thank you very muchto him, Thank yous well.
Tim Seales paints a fantastic picture onthe benefits to both the children and those
that take care from them. AnyYeah. Up next is Jeff Burnage once
again as he continues his talk withSir Simon Hughes. So we've got to
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work with the empasts, We've gotworked with elders, we've got the Lionesses.
We host Fisher Football Cup here aswell on the same site. We
have the license from the Council tendencyfrom the Council Fisher which used to be
Fisher's ground. A Fisher come here. There's also the Romans, which is
the lgb T team which has lastyear won their league in the LGBT League.
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So there's a whole group of peoplewho will will commute to us to
support and work with covering to behonest anybody and everybody in the community on
an equal basis, and it startsat this age. I love all sorts
of sports up so I love cricket, I love tennis. I've the football
is unarguably the game that unites mostpeople, that most people can feel sure
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association with. And the earlier youstart, the better. The earlier you
engage people into people the opportunity andOkay, it's fine to kick about in
the yard or near where you live, but it's not so safe if it's
it's the road. It's much saferif you can go somewhere local, and
most of those youngsters will have comefrom some are not far away from here.
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We've got waiting list. We couldaccommodate more, and I guess there's
a bit of a shout out.If people who are listening think they want
to support or help, you cando so personally by volunteering. You can
come and train and be one ofour coaches if you think you've got the
skills. But you can also contributefinancially. We're always asking for donations from
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our food bout. We're always askingfor people to put some money in the
Kitchief they're willing to do so.I think the thing, the one word
that you mentioned during this interesting talk, has been free. It's wonderful to
the opportunity to provide these things freeof charge, because the very people that
we most want to see down hereare ones that probably have to count the
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pennies more than most. Although ofcourse it's open to all members of the
community. But when World War CommunityScheme first started back in nineteen eighty five,
we did a number of things fornothing, but that didn't prove to
be possible when it expanded. Soseeing this being free, I think we've
got to pay some tribute to MarcusRashford who pointed out the need and that
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stimulated the government into providing some moneyfor local authorities and we've benefited from that
with both Lewisham and Suvolk. Sofor this to be free of Charles,
that gives me a great deal ofpleasure, as I'm sure it does here
as well. I used to bechair of governors for a local primary school,
Saint James's in Burmsey, and thena chair of governors behind me here
Baker's College, which is a secondaryschool, and the reality is that if
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you don't provide either breakfast clubs orafter school clubs or lunch clubs or free
school dinners for those who need them, then often the diet and the health
of youngsters is compromised. And it'simportant to give youngsters healthy and your nutritious
food rather than just the easy tobuy by the checkout in the supermarket.
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So those things are really important,and especially for families who have more than
one child at home, the costsmount up, especially if you know you've
got twins as grandchildren. There arelots of twins. I've simply notice more
and more twins around the black what'sin the air or the food of the
water. But there are lots ofpeople Twitter, there are lots of people
who foster youngsters, and you knowthey can't afford to be taking them out
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every day to Margate or Brighton orsomewhere. I mean, it's just not
realistic and the organization. It's mucheasier to have things on your doorstep where
you know they're safe and healthy andactive, and you know they've burned off
all the calories. They then getthe food and drinks to refresh themselves.
They've burn off more calories and thenwhen they get home they're happy and tired
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and actually quite a lot of Parischarisies. That's quite a good thing too.
They in testing insight from Simon andJeff, examining what else the trust
does to meet the needs of itscommunity, and here you can support the
trust in doing what it needs todo. Up next is Jeff Burnish talking
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with Jim Maycock of Fisher Football Club, who also use the facility at some
Pool's stadium there in Salter Road underthe guardianship of the mill Community Trust.
Well, I've gotten with me JimMaycock, who's the secretary of Fisher Football
Club who share the sort of ownfacility. Jim, what's the relationship like
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between Fisher and Millwall Community Trusts?Couldn't be stronger really in the last few
years. It's grown and grown andgrown, and we're indebted to the Community
Trusts for the work they do inlooking after the site and making the site
available to us, and for theirvery generous sponsorship as well that they provide.
We really couldn't ask for a betterrelationship. What's a situation for any
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Millwall fans when mill were away fromhome? Any possibilities of them coming down
and watching the fish. Yeah,well, we've always run a promotion that
we probably need to get out therea little bit more. At any millall
season ticket holders can get in aFisher for five pounds. We should three
pound reduction. Now you share thestadium with Millwall linesses and it's regionally been
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reconditioned with some more of the blackrubber on it. What's the position,
what's the condition of the pitch now? How do the players feel about it?
It's a fairly old surface now becauseit went down in twenty sixteen when
we first moved back here from Dula'sHamlets, but it stood up reasonably well
and actually I feel watching watching playon it, it behaves like a grass
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pitch does. It's very very rarethat you see any awkward bounces. Some
of the newer three G picchures thathave gone in seemed to get the pool
gets quite large on players quite quickly, and the bounts can be a bit
uneven. But I think the picturesand Paul's plays as well as any free
G pitch i've I've seen it.That's watching both Fisher on a Saturday and
the lightness is on a Sunday onit. A lot of visiting sides praised
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the surface. I know we hadBrentford down here two seasons going in London
see your cup, and they werevery complimentary about the surface and the whole
facility. And I know the CommunityTrust have had people from other community trust
see the surface and see the facilityhere and they're very jealous of what we've
got here at se sixteen. Well, you've been here all day. We're
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watching Mill's summer camp which is freeto all the local kids. How have
you enjoyed watching what's been going on. It never ceases to amaze me,
but I pop in and out andsee the work that the Community Trust too
with the local children, both atthe summer camps, at the development centers
that they run, at the girlssessions that they put on with the Lioness's
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in the quality of the coaching,the engagement that the coaches have with the
children, the relationships that they buildwith all the children. As a school
teacher of herself by profession, isfantastic to see and I can't recommend it
highly enough. Jim, thank youfor that all of us to the fish
this season. Take you. It'salways been a good relationship we've had with
Millwall. We do have a coupleof ex Millwall under eighteens playing for US
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now, Zeke Miller and Connor Darwishboth came through the Millwall Academy and obviously
at the Fisher Athletic days it wasalways a thing that somebody x Millwall pros
came down to play for Fisher duringSome very big names indeed, indeed Tody
Tower and players like that came downin the past, some very big names.
Yeah. Well, thank you verymuch for the interview and for all
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the corporations. Much appreciated you,Jeff Well, great praise indeed from Fisher
Football Clubs Jim Maycock. Jim alsomentioned the Millwall Lionesses and now Jeff and
Simon talk about the mill Wall Lionesseswho also are under the umbrella of the
mill Community Trust here at the noOne like she was talking where we always
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promote every week what the community trustsare doing. We're particularly interested in the
whole thing with women's and girls football, which of course at the moment is
really under an international spotlight with theWomen's World Cup. Millwall and its famous
Millwall Lionesses, the original Lionesses whoare named that England shows to steal from
Millwall actually put it that way.Let's be more collegiate and say adopted.
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They've adopted. I'm personally very proudof the part that we're all played in
the developments of girls and women's football. Millwall linesses themselves, as you know,
they won the FA Cup twice inthe nineties, but probably more importantly,
we absolutely pioneered primary age girls footballwhere nobody in the country was interested
in doing it. It wasn't athing that was considered by parents that was
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suitable for their ten, nine elevenyear olds to be doing. So that's
a source of enormous pride and livelySoo and Jeff, you've paid your half
in that, for which we shouldbe grateful and you've been very very clear
about that. And I used tobe on the board of the London Football
Association as you may know, andwas their first ever independent director and one
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of the priorities we had during thewhole time I came off the board last
year, one of the priorities waswomen's and girls football. And I've worked
with other clubs of work were PeckingFootball Club and other places around London,
to make sure that we seize themoment of the excitement of the English team
having won the European till last year, to make sure that we now provide
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the places for this to happen,because it hasn't happened. You're quite right.
Many schools, many places don't havethe facility, don't have adic pleasures.
But Noll Lionesses have been fantastic,very interesting insight into women's football and
our Mill Lionesses are one of thepioneers of women's football in this country today.
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The Mill Community Trusts are the guardiansof Mill Lionesses and their academy side
and this has been the case fora good few years now and coining a
phrase attributed to Michael Caine. Notmany people know that the Mill Community Trust
do a great job in supporting theneeds of the Mill Lionesses by provide the
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human and physical resources that enables themto function as a football club with its
academy. Next, Miles Taunton speakswith Patricio Phoenix Sanchiz, the football and
Sports development officer for Mill Community Trust, and Miles asks Patricio what he feels
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are the key elements of the HelloEveryone I'm here with Patricia Miles from the
Nolisis Talking Team. You're the headcoach running coordinating this program. How how
do you feel How much of animpact do you think this has on parents
and kids that are in this program. Hi? Everyone, So it's a
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great opportunity for the local area,for the local community to get involved in
the program that mill will offer.I think it's a great opportunity for the
kids to come and have a safespace. There is an area for them
to come and enjoy themselves from themorning to the afternoon. Our program runs
from ten to two. We haveabout seventy kids attending and generally were in
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the morning. We have fun activitiesto get the mind going, lots of
fun games and then it's followed bya healthy lunch in the afterning which is
provided by the council, and thenin the afternoon we then follow it up
with matches, tournaments. We havedifferent scenarios which keeps them engaged, for
example, World Cups, Euros,especially now with the lyonnesses. So it's
(22:34):
very specific football camp. Everything isaround football. We're trying to teach some
new skills. We also try andencourage sportsmanship. It's massive here at the
beginning of the camp, we sitthem down, we talk about the values
at camp, which I respect themfun, and we ensure that they come
here and they can have a goodtime. That's essentially what it's about,
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because we want the kids to comehere and leave with a big smile on
their face. We also in themornings when they're registering, we put on
some football skills, football related videos, and recently we also have worked with
a company called mind Apples which wehave no workshops which talk about the importance
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of having a healthy lifestyle, sleepingwell, eating properly healthy, going out
for walks. So it's all aboutthe importance of playing football and keeping it
a healthy lifestyle. And it's agreat opportunity for me. I'm really honored
to be able to give this opportunityfor the young kids to come and play,
(23:37):
especially over the summer the weather helps, and yeah, it's a great
privilege to be able to allow thisopportunity for the young people to play football
in a very safe and good environment. I must say, it's a very
very good opportunity that you guys areputting out there. So thank you and
thanks for doing this interview. Noworries a safe environment, respect and fun.
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No wonder, Patricio is honored totake this program forward, especially when
those kids are beaming with great,big smiles on their faces. Next up,
Jeff Burnish speaks to a parent ofone of the participants. G Day.
(24:21):
Now, I've got with me oneof the parents day a very local
family and his son, Adamula,is one of the people that comes here
regularly. So, G Day,what do you think your son gets out
of it? Most of all?I think most of all it's he gets
order and structure, and I thinkdiscipline as well as well as being because
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it's sports, it's goes for hisbody and mind and brain. So I
think that I think those are thequalities and the things he gets from from
coming here. And he listens tothe coaches. Does he's a good listener?
Oh yeah, yeah he does.And I think apart from I mean,
it's it's as enhances listening skills.I think the coaches. I think
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the coaches coached him quite well.I think that from what I've observed,
I think that the coaches emphasize thatthat sense of listening and discipline skills.
I think that's a very good thingfor the boys. And does he like
football particularly or is he an allaround sports he kid, Oh, he
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loves his football, I think mostthat's that's the sports he wants to he
likes most of all. Yeah,and he wants he wants to be a
footballer, and yeah, he lovesWe've been We've been coming to Millwall for
some time now, so I thinkthere's a great thing they're doing the community.
Do you come to the evening sessionsthen or what sessions do you come
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to? Well, we've been cominghere. This will be the I think
with the second someone. We've beenhere and other whole of days as well.
Yeah, yeah, so he washe was on the pathway last year.
I mean, this was our introductionand to hear and yeah, so
that's why I said, but that'swhy I'm meant by he's been coming here.
Yes, he was on the talentpathway, which means which means already
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he's he's very good. But ofcourse to end up being a professional footballer.
But they can't grasp it, canthey? What the odds are They're
so long? Yeah, they're solong, but they've got to there's no
harm in trying. No, No, I suppose there isn't. I think
it's. I mean, like Isaid, you know, I think they
trained them very well here, soI've got no doubt that even though the
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odds are well, it's it's it'sI mean, they're not guarante absolute guarantees.
By the fact that he's been trainedand he's been coached, I mean,
he makes him a better individual oraround. Is he playing for a
local Yes, so he was.He just recently left fish of FC,
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which is I think they've got someaffiliation. They have very friendly with them
to Millwall. Hens the reason whyI say we seem to have the sort
of affinity to Millwall football. Yeah. Yeah, Where is it going to
play this coming season? Do youthink? Well, he's moved to Well,
they like the way he's played andso he recently joined a football club
(27:27):
called f D United. They they'rein Hatford. But he's both for what
it for what I know he's hopingto maybe someday getting to the Millwall academies.
So good luck to him. Well, improving your personal skills is something
that's clear when you come to thesummer camps and Addie Mola has big hopes
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of the future. He hopes tobe an academy player with Millwall. Next
all fan Stan A. Godwin talkswith Miles about the middle community trust while
storing some I'm with Stan Godwins down. How are you? I'm okay,
Miles, I'm okay and that's goodmate. And how much of impact I
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think this has on the community ofthis program? Oh, it's the impact
is growing. I wouldn't say dayby day, but but no. I
mean the last time I was herewas about eighteen months ago and it was
it was quite an impact in butit's even bigger now. And because which
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is good, because a lot ofthe locals now and now identifying mill Wall
and their kids are rather than theLiverpools or the Arsenals or whoever it happens
to me. So I've got anet point of view. It's really good
and and curse if you say footballin general community schemes of one description or
(29:00):
another was massive part of a footballclub, any football club, as football
teams. I mean, that's theway football is down and that ain't going
to be changing anytime soon. William, Thank you very much, Sam fan
Man and boys. Staying sees benefitsall around and in particular to the football
(29:22):
club as well as the children andthose that care for them. Here's Jeff
with another participate in child SI.Now I've got another of the players that
have been enjoying the summer camp hereand his name is say hello, Si.
Hello. And you go to schoollocally? Do you yea? Which
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school sub a part primary school?Do you right? Okay? Now what
do you what are you enjoying mostabout coming to the summer camp? And
well, they give us very healthylunches, they teach us new skills,
they learn our side to teach howto be fit. And yeah, I'm
really enjoying. What do you think'simproved in your game from being here when
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I'm playing, Well, since Isince I have not been here, I
can't really play football. But sinceI've come here, I've just learned a
lot of things. I've improved.My fitness has improved actually because a big
difference that I've come here. That'sgood to hear. And it's the only
football that you like? Or doyou like other sports as well? So?
I mean, yeah, I likecover sports, I like basketball,
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I love football and I love Millwall. Oh that's good. That's good to
hear. Thank you very much.That's enjoy the rest of the week.
He took bully well Sion loves hisfootball, he loves being at Saint Paul's,
he loves getting fit. But mostof all, it would appear he
just loves Millwall to Jeff's back ashe introduces Miles Thornton to Simon Hughes,
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Now, why would he want todo that. One other thing that helps
the wheels turn around is the useof volunteers, and we have with us
this morning a young man from thearea, Miles Thornton, who's heard as
support this today and does various thingswith the community trust, including beyond that,
(31:14):
reporting on Melville Football Club for MaritimeRadio, which is ninety six point
five for those that don't know,and it's audible all the way from here
out to about Erith and Welling andplaces. So Miles is here for the
day. He also takes a greatinterest in the Lionesses with me, Miles,
would you like to ask Simon aquestion? Yes, I mean just
(31:36):
wondering and how much of an impactdo you think this has on the kids
but also the parents this summerhamp Marles, thank you very much. I think
it's a sort of thing that couldbecome sort of a permanent feature of the
lives of their children. And Isay that because I remember that when we
went on holidays kids. We livedup in the North of England when I
was youngster, and we went toNorth Wales for our holidays and there was
(31:59):
a there was a beach camp andI used to go and take part in
the beach camp. And I knowthat having done it one year, then
my questions with mom and dad wasare we going back to the same place,
gonna go okay next year? Andso it's something that gives parents and
care as the idea that this isn'ta one day wonder. This is something
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that's available for the whole of themonth of August this year, and our
plan is that we would provide itin future summers. It depends on I'm
getting money. We get funded bySouthern Council and loose from Council and other
charities and other organizations, sometimes somefunding from the Mayor of London some other
places. If families realize that thisis available, then they've got it on
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their places to go for their youngstersand it's easy for them. You live
locally. I live locally. It'smuch easier for all the obvious reasons,
money and organization. It's much easierto come to somewhere local and so I
think it's a great help to them. Bluntly, if you're the parents of
little ones, it's hard work quiteoften, and the more you've got,
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the harder work it is. Ifyou can share that responsibility over the summer
days with other people, it givesyou a bit of downtime, time to
get on the stuff at home,time to have a bit of there's time
to go and do a bit ofshopping, even possibly time to go out
and have a coffee with your mates. Parents need rest and the children as
well. Children are lovely, butyou know if you can have a bit
of a break, so it isreally helpful for them. Last point,
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it helps mental health as well asphysical health. It is proved that sport
is very good for your mental healthand well being because it allows you to
put aside your worries and think aboutwhat you're doing, think about the game
you're playing, or the sport you'replaying, or the trainuity. It's also
good for the mental health and wellbeing of the parents because it just takes
the pressure off, give them achance to breathe have some space and be
(33:52):
able to plan and organize better.So it's a win win, and it's
really good that you're helping. Thankyou very much for your j I hadn't
heard about marriage. I'm ready.I will know. Make sure I listen
sometimes. But the more people whocan hear about more comming to justus,
the more people who know that thefree Jeff always wants was the free holiday
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activity and food camp is available.Then hopefully the more demander being the as
ahead, the more demand there is, the more likely to get people to
fund us, and the more successfulwe can be. Thank you, Thank
you, Summa talk and enjoy yoursummer as well. Thank you very much.
Jeff always uses a means to anend as they talk about volunteers and
(34:35):
Miles asks about the benefits to childrenand those that care for them, and
Simon with trays a very clear pointabout the knee for those that care for
children and what they get from achild participate in a summer camp. Final
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thoughts from a participant and his fatherare given to Jeff in the following interview.
Now, I've got with me youngImmanuel, another local young boy.
What school do you go to?Emmanuel? Calvin grow do you right?
Okay? Now you've been coming tothis summer camp this week? Have you
been to one before? Or thisyour first one? I've been to many
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ones here and do you like thema lot? Yeah? Right? And
what's in well? Have you improvedyour game on this week with the help
of the coaches? Dribbling? Dribbling? Right? You left footed or right
footed? Right fasted? Not twofooted? That was the right. I
can still use my left fat aswell. Right? And your coaches have
been encouraging that, have they so? And will you always come every year
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they have one of these maybe otherholidays as well. They do it,
don't they sometimes? Yeah? Good? And your dad, Alex, he's
also here watching, watching what's goingon? Actually it's nearly home time,
so I've managed to catch Alex.But what makes you happy about Emmanuel coming
to a noble summer camp? I'mhappy because I mean, he's moth games
(36:07):
for him, so it helps himto improve in his skills and his ability
as well. And he's not onthe camp that he comes. He comes
for the normal pathway t Yeah,he's on the pathway training And for him,
what I love is the he lovedit and he wants the he's always
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keen to come for the training.So the passion is there. So I
have as a parent, I haveto support him and he loves the coaching.
He loved the coaching because he saidhe loved the coaching and the way
they train, what they do,the skills they and they are decisive,
you know, intellig It's done forfree, isn't it. Yeah, yeah,
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which is amazing. I think therewas a time when clubs used to
church for summer camp, but Marcuss Ratchford got involved to remember that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and I think that's shame. The
government is putting some money into it. And the kids get here. They
come here, they've got fruits,they've got a hot meal. Sometimes they
take out home for them. Yeah, they hate it themselves. So what's
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the impression of Millvill Football Club thatyou get from coming to these these sessions?
Yeah? This especially this comes butyou know he's free and they get
what they want and is amazing becausehe's saved a lot for the parents,
you know, and at the sametime he keeps the children busy. You're
a football fan. I'm a footballfan. Are you allowed to mention who
(37:36):
you support? Is? The thingis not really supporting a football club,
but I support they could do youye, which one? This special one?
Right? I think we know whoyou mean. He's currently working in
Italy. Yeah, yes, wellI hope at least Mill's your second club.
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Meal One is fantastic. I'm inbecause I took him for games as
well. Alex, thank you verymuch, Emmanuel, thank you, thank
you, thank you for having Emmanuelenjoys coming to the camp, and Alex's
father is most grateful for the additionalcoaching that improves Alex's skills and ability.
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In closing, we return to JeffBurnage and Simon Hughes as they reflect upon
the benefits of the Minual Community Trustand what it does and how it's perceived
in its community that it serves andbeyond. Let's hear what they had to
say. Well, the thing aboutthe community work is it's done for the
(38:45):
right reasons. More we'll do thisbecause they want to do it and it's
the right thing to do. Butone of the things that happens as a
result is the reputation of the clubin the area is enhanced because people get
to know where Mill's heart. Ithink I've seen lots of evidence of how
Millbour was so highly regarded in thearea. One example you mentioned earlier was
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the Righty Center, which is that'sIan Wright's project at his old school tournament
in Broccoli. Now I went downthere and we are so welcome there and
the name of Millwall is greatly greatlyappreciated and enhanced in the area by the
work that's done here. So thankyou and all the other trustees Simon for
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the work that you do. Wesupport the team, as you know,
we support Sean who's ac chief Exectiveand his team. We have a particularly
good chief postion actually focused on reachingmore people, on offering our services to
more people, who's absolutely dedicated aroundthe top to doing that with his team,
and he's got a various skilled teamwill work with him. So with
the support, with the support group, with the people at the back of
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the stage who you don't know thenames of they're never famous, but that
they provide the support. And we'vedone a very good and skilled group of
trustee who I hope Sean feels cangive him support. And we're even as
we speak we're trying to make surethat over the summer we get in our
local councilors to come and see whatwe're doing here. We've had much more
engagement in the last couple of yearswith the mayors of Southern Collusion. We've
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had much more engagement with the councilorsand Southern Collusion, and I think people
the word is getting out, andit's not just getting out locally, even
further a field that will come intoTrust means a good community service in all
sorts of ways, not just inrelation to football and not just within the
boundaries of Southern Conlution. Well,what can I say, Middle Community Trust.
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Everyone that's in there, from theCEO through to the trustees, the
staff, the volunteers, anyone that'sassociated with making the Trust and its services
be effective. You're all stars.What a great program to record and thanks
(41:00):
for the opportunity for our no onelikes his talking team to come to Saint
Paul's and record the thoughts and viewsof all that we came across. And
a big thanks to all those thatgave their views. It was an excellent
day. All the best to theMiddle Community Trust for the future, and
(41:23):
goodbye from me. I'm and Barclay
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