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Local girls triumph at National Finals National Footie Chick Cup
2007
SATURDAY the
16 June saw some the best young girls football teams in the UK
arrive in Manchester to compete in the 1st National Footie Chick
Cup. The tournament was the 1st of its kind on a national scale.
Teams from the North proved to be the teams to beat with all of the
winners coming from the North West and North East regions.
Victoria Colts Under 10’s team from Wirral and Liverbirds FC’s open
age team from Southport, triumphed over the top teams in the UK to
become the 1st ever winners of the Footie Chick Cup. Victoria
Colts were the side to beat on the day. The winners of the regional
heats in May came head to head with their local rivals Everton FC in
the grand finals to win 4-1 and be crowned national champions.
In the Open Age
category, qualifiers from the North West region, Liverbirds FC
triumphed over some great open age teams including Manchester City
and finally beating Havant & Waterlooville in the grand final to win
5-2.
The tournament began in May this year with 6 regional heats around
the UK.
Teams competed in Glasgow, Manchester, Derby, North Shields,
Portsmouth and Kent. Over 200 teams competed around the UK in their
relative age category (under 10’s, under 12’s, under 14’s, under
16’s and open age). The tournament not only attracted some of the
top local teams but also some of the leading academy teams such as
Newcastle United, Manchester City, West Ham, Wigan, Sheffield United
and Everton Football Club. The winners and runners up from each
location and age category were then invited to the Grand Finals
which was held at the JJB Soccer Dome in Trafford Park, Manchester
on the 16 June.
Female football is
the fastest growing sport in the world and is now the most popular
female sport in the UK. Organisers, Footie Chick is the UK’s only
specialist sports brand dedicated to female footballers and
supporters of the game.
The company originally started producing a
highly technical range of clothing for female players and a fashion
range of clothing for supporters of the game.
Following a hugely successful tournament held in the North West in
2006 and increased popularity in the sport, Footie Chick decided to
launch the first national tournament solely for females of all ages.
The tournament was a great opportunity to continue the growth and
interest in the sport and help to develop the country’s future
talent.
The company is already working on next years tournament with
the regional heats planned for the 17 2008 and 18 May 2008.
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500
ENTRIES FOR SAMARITANS’ ART PRIZE
THERE were an
amazing 500 entries for the Young Ambassadors with Samaritans’ 1st
art competition, The Grieve+Samaritans Art Prize. Entries were
received from the UK and as far a-field as the USA, Israel and Costa
Rica. The competition and the auction of short listed works
raised an impressive £14,000 for Samaritans – and also increased the
profile of the charity’s emotional health support work among those
in the art community.
The winning artist who received the 1st prize of £2,000 was Adam
Sunderland while the 2 runners-up who received £1,000 each were
Caron Geary and Wendy Mayer.
The Awards Reception
was held on Wednesday June 13 on The Terrace at the House of Commons
and was hosted by Ed Vaizey MP, Chair of the All Party group which
supports the work of Samaritans. Matthew Wright from “The Wright
Stuff” on Channel 5 TV was the guest speaker and the event was
attended by over 150 artists and guests. The 15 short-listed works
of art were auctioned during the evening with half the proceeds
going to Samaritans and half to the artists.
Young Ambassadors’ Charlotte Vere said:- “All of us at Young
Ambassadors with Samaritans who have worked on this year’s art
competition are delighted with the outcome and impressed by the
excellent standard of entries. We are looking forward to organising
the prize again next year. “
Adam Sunderland, the competition winner, said:- “My work is
graphic, often outwardly simple. I am driven by a desire to produce
images that show our world in an unusual and interesting light. In
“The Girl and Her Monster” the girl paints a monster on the wall
without knowing what it means. I believe that our ability to express
our emotions through creative avenues is crucial to our well-being
and that the environment that we form around ourselves reflects our
mental state.”
Adam lives in Thornton Le Dale, a small village near Pickering in
North Yorkshire and works from a studio in his home. He completed a
BA Fine Arts at Cardiff University achieving a 1st Class Honours
degree last year.
Caron Geary’s entry was a photographic digital print entitled “Lorenzo”
showing a distressed young boy. When talking about her short listed
work, Caron said:- “This collaborative performance acts as a
metaphor for life’s more extreme experiences, our responses to them
and how we choose or are forced to deal with adverse situations,
that we are often powerless to change or control. It is a
particularly British trait to ‘sweep things under the carpet’;
pretending situations are fine when they are clearly not. Children
tend to act more honestly, until they are socialized into behaving
otherwise. Part of this work is a response to that stiff upper lip
tradition of carrying on regardless, in the face of adversity and
our reluctance to disclose our feelings when we are at our most
vulnerable or pressured. ”
Wendy Mayer’s entry was a sculpture of herself as a “Rag Doll”.
Wendy is a 2nd year Fine Arts student at Loughborough University and
says her work is dominated by her fascination with the uncanny. She
said:- “My recent work has been inspired by a psychological
report on a woman in her forties who acts and dresses like a child,
who does not want to grow any older and who wishes she were a doll.
This particular sculpture has also been influences by a text called
‘Corners’ from the Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard. ”
The prize was sponsored by the Alan and Karen Grieve Charitable
Trust and supported by Christie’s. The panel of judges was
chaired by Ed Vaizey MP, Shadow Minister for Culture, and to include
Anthony McNerney, Director of Post-War and Contemporary Art at
Christie’s, and Camilla D’Arcy-Irvine of the Jerwood Foundation.
FAME TV AUCTIONS AIRTIME ON EBAY
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