Wolves in the Community

Yesterday I was at Molineux and met with Jeremy Hunt ( Shadow Secretary of state for culture, Media & Sport) and Will Clowes (Assistant Community Manger) and Paul Ireland who is working towards gaining a NVQ qualification in football coaching to discuss the dusk, twilight and midnight league. The league is a social action inclusion project, designed to provide a free, fun and friendly environment for boys, girls, teenagers and young men and women to participate in football related activities and educational workshops relating to drug awareness, personal health and hygiene and the dangers of alcohol abuse. The project also offers participants with somewhere fun and inviting to go and with something positive and constructive to do with their spare time.

The principal aims of the project are to educate children and young people by developing their physical, mental, social and moral capabilities through participation in organised recreational activities. From this will follow good citizenship and a growth in maturity, both as individuals and as members of society.  Specifically the project also aims to assist young people, particularly from disadvantaged backgrounds to increase their educational attainments and raise personal aspiration, which is something that Paul felt he had particularly benefited from.  I know I’m in a bit of a sport mode at the moment but this initiative is just full of positive action.

Paul