A day of meeting people

So we've been for some interesting meetings today.  The day started with us visiting MFC in the hope they may be able to help with funding a powerchair.

Then since we were over that way we popped into Middlesbrough College to check out their facilities - we were impressed - watch this space for updates.

Craig, the sports dude at the college, chatted to us about our sport. I've got bettter and better at releasing my passion at the right moment, I haven't cried yet but it's on the cards soon! He was in charge of applying for funding for the new gymnastics centre - we are talking 7 figures here, makes our little £50,000 sound easily do able!

He suggested we contact Nigel at Active Mobility, who we've since found out is Clair's Uncle!  How lovely was he - he said he'd help :O)

We then had one more idea up our sleeves which we will hopefully be able to update you on soon if my selling of the club and the need for it in Middlesbrough worked.

Just need to email everyone now to make sure they didn't have their fingers crossed and locked the door behind us! :0p

Here's some photo's of our taster sessions to remind everyone of how much we NEED a powerchair football club in Middlesbrough.

Want to see what we get up to?

Apparently a picture paints a thousand words...

more photos to follow - I need my bed, powerchair football wears you out you know!

Introducing ...

Middlesbrough Powerchair Football Club is a new club for people of all ages, male & female & all abilities to be involved in competitive or recreational powerchair football.

This fast paced team sport enables those with even the most severe physical disabilities to play the beautiful game.

We have delivered 3 taster sessions to establish whether there is a need for such a club in Middlesbrough ... so far it appears there is!!!!!!

So how did it begin?

The ball started rolling ;o) when the mam of a young lad, who has a disability that means he is excluded from most sports as he needs to use a powerchair for mobility, contacted the mayor to tell him about powerchair football and the need for a club here in Middlesbrough. There are no other sports clubs that cater for his needs and he is often the only child who uses a wheelchair.

Caz and I had already attended the WFA coaching course so that we were qualifed and we got invited to the resulting meeting. I'll post later about how we became involved. The mayor knows lots of people and consequently we were signposted to Middlesbrough Sport & leisure services - with a bit off help, a constitution, committee members, our own bank account, a venue and a PCT grant for tasters our club was founded.

All we needed now was for people who are eligible to play to sign & turn up for the free sessions and turn up they did :O)