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NEWS FROM BATH CITY FC FOUNDATION!

deliver a brilliant Women’s session at Odd Down
on Monday evenings from 7.30 - 8.30pm, with 35
regular players and continue to see new faces each
week. We have linked with Bath City Youth which is a
wonderful partnership, not only showing our support in
development of the female game but sharing facilities
and offering other opportunities for the Bath City
family, including holiday sessions for girls and boys at
Bath Rec. We have our new Wildcats sessions starting
at Odd Down on Wednesday afternoons from 4.15pm
- 5pm which offers opportunities for 5-11 year old girls
to have a taste of playing football.
We have partnered with Bath Mind offering session
at Bath Rec, enabling people to have support around
mental health and well-being through regular football
sessions. We are seeing around 10 -15 people at
The Foundation goes from strength to strength and each session and if anyone would like to attend, the
currently has 875 beneficiaries, all children, young sessions are free and run on a Monday from 10.30am
people and adults in our local community. Our - 11.30am for adults.
dedicated team of coaches, led by Project Manager We have a lively walking football session for 50+
Geoff Stevens, is supporting issues relating to health men and women at Odd Down Sports Ground and
and well-being such as holiday hunger, mental ill- welcome new players on Wednesdays at 10.30am.
health, poverty, loneliness and general fitness. The Foundation is a charity run by a group of Trustees,
Our Premier League Primary Stars programmes in local volunteers and paid coaches. We are recruiting
schools support children with maths and literacy and new Trustees to our Board and are keen to receive
we are in local primary and secondary schools with applications from people from all backgrounds with
football sessions and PE curriculum support. an interest in Bath City FC and particularly with
Our holiday hunger programmes were established in experience in finance, marketing, fundraising or
2018 with FairShare, at St Michael’s Primary School third sector, please contact Helen Donovan, Chair of
and thanks to Marcus Rashford for raising awareness Trustees at info@bathcityfoundation.org
of this national problem. Did you know that 35% of Follow us on Twitter, Facebook
children in Twerton live in poverty? We are linked to and Instagram!
the Twerton Community Network to keep up with the
key areas of need and issues affecting our community.
Our pathway for Girls’ and Women’s Football in Bath
is forging ahead and we are delighted to see more
girls and women joining our sessions this term. We

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