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Hannah Marriage

In my experience most clubs cater for social and competitive players. How does this forum plan on catering for all player types; from those who wish to just get active right up to those who want to play more competitively or continue on from vets football?

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  • in reply to Flo Lunn

    I think there is enough information out there about how to play. Its more to get an understanding of how this forum, and the FA would support the different player types.

    Also, with regards to the Age UK sessions, our local club tried to set up one of these Just play sessions and whilst the option to do this is available on the FA website, we ended up being sent around the houses and discovered that no cub can now set up these sessions as the person working for Age UK has now left, and there is no further funding etc available. We therefore had to withdraw the games under this umbrella. 

  • in reply to Flo Lunn

    With regards to the Age UK sessions, Hannah is correct they have now finished funding etc. However, we were able to get one up and running when there was. When funding was withdrawn and the Age UK people packed up and left we kept it going under our own steam so that the people left could carry on, which as you could imagine was very important to them.  I feel that more support should be offered to these initiatives when they expire to retain participants - e.g. transferring into a just play session?

  • in reply to Paul Murtagh

    In partnership with the London Borough of Hillingdon I approached pur locsl Age UK branch whi wasn't interested in walking football or any exercise activity ! So with Hillingdon Council I set up a Community walking football programme for Men, Women , mixed participants and our Dementia football project Forget Me Not Fc. The weekly sessions are funded by the Council , our Ckub fundraising and the FA Just Play scheme. The success of the programme has resulted in funding being approved for 2023.