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Richmond Volleyball embraces the Football Premier League 4 Sport initiative
15th April 2009
Richmond Volleyball (London’s ‘Club of the Year’ and an accredited clubmark club) is happy to announce that it has been selected as one of Volleyball England’s 20 national hub clubs to deliver the English Football Premier League 4 Sport project with Fulham Community Sport Trust team. The programme will involve launching five volleyball satellite clubs in 3 different boroughs for boys and girls aged between 11 and 16.
The Football Premier League 4 Sport is a ground breaking initiative. Together with Youth Sport Trust, Sport England and Department for Culture, Media and Sport; have invested £3.8m in a two and half year project with the aim to engage 25,000 new young participants in four Olympic sports (badminton, judo, table tennis and volleyball) whilst creating a smooth pathway from school participation into community clubs.
The initiative also aims to act as a catalyst to establishing multisport clubs within a community, following the example set by football professional clubs abroad such as AS Roma (Italy), Benfica (Portugal),Dynamo Moscow (Russia),FC Barcelona (Spain),Galatasaray S.K (Turkey), Panathinaikos (Greece) and PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands).
Richmond Volleyball’s involvement will be running five club sessions during term time starting from 4th May 2009. The sessions will be open to any young person keen to start and develop an interest in the game, learning from top coaches. The clubs will be at Tiffin Boys Schools, Chessington Community College & Richard Challenor (London Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames), London Oratory School (London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham) and at Epsom and Ewell High School (Surrey).
Richmond Volleyball’s Chairman commented, ’We are delighted to be involved in this fantastic initiative working with a professional football club such as Fulham to help build and strengthen sport in our community together. The pulling power of Fulham is very strong and will inspire young people to take up volleyball, help us to unearth new local talent and support them through our committed junior development pathways’.
For more information on the junior premier league coaching schedule
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