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Yahoo
26-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Park football sessions offered by Wolves charity
Free football-based activities are being offered to young people by Wolverhampton Wanderers' charity across eight parks in the city during the school holidays. Participants aged eight to 18 are welcome at the weekly Kicks in the Park sessions starting from Monday, the Wolves Foundation said. The sessions are in addition to the regular Premier League Kicks ones it holds during school holidays, "offering young people the chance to meet up and enjoy football in a safe and secure environment". All sessions are completely free but places need to be pre-booked, said the charitable foundation. Follow BBC Wolverhampton & Black Country on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram. More on this story Wolves charity offers children free sport sessions Sports project for disabled launched by charity Wolves charity extends football sessions for kids Related internet links Wolves Foundation
BBC News
26-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
School holiday park football sessions offered by Wolves charity
Free football-based activities are being offered to young people by Wolverhampton Wanderers' charity across eight parks in the city during the school holidays. Participants aged eight to 18 are welcome at the weekly Kicks in the Park sessions starting from Monday, the Wolves Foundation said. The sessions are in addition to the regular Premier League Kicks ones it holds during school holidays, "offering young people the chance to meet up and enjoy football in a safe and secure environment".All sessions are completely free but places need to be pre-booked, said the charitable foundation. Follow BBC Wolverhampton & Black Country on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
28-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Wolves Foundation and university to offer sports coaching degree
Wolverhampton Wanderers' club charity has teamed up with the city's university to offer a degree in sports coaching. The Wolves Foundation said the two-year foundation degree will be launched in September, subject to approval. It would mainly be taught at the Molineux stadium and the indoor arena at course, run in partnership with the University of Wolverhampton, will offer work-based modules and placements across a wide range of the charity's projects, including community and disability sport, said foundation added expressions of interests were now being taken for the course which offers "vital hands-on experience". 'Powerful combination' The course will also have the option of being extended to a third year to complete a BSc. Representatives will be at the university's open day on Saturday 5th July for people seeking more Warburton, the foundation's head of programmes for education, employability and youth engagement, said they were delighted to be linking with the university and offering students "the opportunity to study and gain valuable experience supporting local communities". "The expertise and experience of university staff in designing and delivering courses of this nature, alongside being able to learn at Molineux and benefit from the placement opportunities we can provide at the foundation, is a powerful combination," he said. "Being able to offer real-world experience across areas such as community sport, disability sport, health improvement and in schools and youth engagement, is such a substantial benefit to the course, offering students that vital hands-on experience to put what they are learning into immediate practice."Dr Ally Forbes, sports business management programme leader at the university, added: "Employability modules and placement opportunities will enable students to network with employers and explore a career in coaching and the wider sport and physical activity industry." Follow BBC Wolverhampton & Black Country on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Thousands expected for Wolverhampton's Eid-al-Adha celebrations
Thousands of people are preparing for the fifth annual Eid-al-Adha celebration, scheduled to take place in Wolverhampton on year's event saw about 5,000 people attend, and organisers from Jamia Masjid Al-Aqsa, the city's central mosque, are expecting similar numbers this as the "Festival of Sacrifice", Eid-al-Adha is a time when Muslims honour and reflect on the Prophet Ibrahim though prayer and charity year will be the event's third at West Park, having previously been held at Dunstall Park. Sohail Khan, councillor for Tettenhall Regis, said the Eid in the Park event was the largest outdoor congregational prayer in the Black thanked the volunteers and sponsors who have been planning the event for months."I think it's amazing. It's all about unity as well," he added."Bringing it out into the community, to the premier park in Wolverhampton – a beautiful space, with all the gardens around – people really appreciate it."He said the event wold be attend by local councillors and emergency services representatives as well as the Wolves Foundation and local businesses. Follow BBC Wolverhampton & Black Country on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Wolverhampton football scout to be honoured with blue plaque
A blue plaque is set to be erected to honour a former football scout who served a club for almost 40 Crook spent nearly four decades scouting players for Wolverhampton Wanderers, unearthing players like Ron Flowers, Roy Swinbourne, Steve Daley, Gerry Taylor and Alan ran a feeder team for the club in Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire, called Wath Wanderers, which remained a trusted source of players for the club until his death in Crook also played for Wolves under Major Frank Buckley in the early 1930s and was a teammate of club legend Stan Cullis. The plaque will be unveiled at the Cortonwood Miners' Welfare club in Brampton, South Yorkshire, on Friday, which will be attended by some of his family members and former players. 'Utterly devoted' A book chronicling Mr Crook's operation and achievements is also due to be released in December, with all profits going to the Wolves Foundation and Brampton United Junior Football will feature more than 40 interviews with his former players, including Daley, Sunderland, Taylor, Bob Hatton, Jimmy Seal and Jim Chris Brook and Ashley Ball recently visited the Molineux to give a talk on Mr Crook's Ball said: "I think Mark's achievements are one of football's great untold stories, and it's clear to me that he was utterly devoted to Wolves."Even into his 70s, he wanted to ensure the best talent from a football hotbed like South Yorkshire went the way of Wolves." Follow BBC Wolverhampton & Black Country on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
