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Thursday, December 27, 2012

JUST A BALL GAME? award for HYDE FC


                                    



                                                       



                                          Just a Ball Game?

Hyde FC presented with JUST A BALL GAME? challenging homophobia in football award 2012.       
                                 
In recognition of all the great efforts Hyde FC have made in the past 15 months to help make Ewen Fields a welcoming safe space for LGBT people to engage in football, Just a Ball game?  are pleased to have presented the club with an award.

Just a Ball game? had this to say about the work that ‘The Tigers ‘ have done:

 ” We are delighted to be presenting this award to Hyde FC who have shown over the last year to be one of the most forward thinking clubs in football by embracing our workload and helping to carry it along. They are happy to acknowledge that challenging homophobia needs to come from many strands and have been only too willing to respond to all of our initiatives.”





Contact for further information:

Founding Director -Lindsay England



info.justaballgame@gmail.com                       ©

Sunday, December 23, 2012

HAPPY FOOTBALL HOLIDAYS




                    HAPPY FOOTBALL HOLIDAYS

                                                                           FROM JUST A BALL GAME?

Saturday, December 15, 2012

from HYDE FC OFFICIAL WEBSITE.

Think Before You Chant anti-homophobia campaign comes to Ewen Fields

 
 
 

A week on from holding a world Aids day event at our home game against Woking, we became the first senior sports organisation to showcase the Time for Change – Now exhibition as part of the Think Before You Chant campaign.


Lindsay England with Time For Change - Now exhibition


The day was funded with a grant from the European Gay & Lesbian Sports Federation as part of their Preventing and Fighting Homophobic Violence and Intolerance in Sport project.
The exhibition consists of 6 panels which aim to both raise awareness and educate around the issues of homophobic abuse found in all sport, and a Think Before You Chant banner was put up pitch-side.
The anti-homophobia campaigns group Just a Ball Game? have been co-delivery partners of this initiative with originators AFC Rushden and Diamonds, who hope to send their fans away with the correct messages of what is acceptable to sing at games, and what constitutes as unwanted and unnecessary discrimination.
Lindsay England who is founding director of Just a Ball Game? said:
Sport as a whole at present only touches on diversity and inclusion for those who identify as LGBT, and although a number of LGBT people are involved in sport at grassroots level are “out” to family and friends, teammates and some club officials, those who participate at elite level and are ‘out’ publically are few and far between.
So, with this in mind we are proud to be delivery partners on these initiatives.

from BLUE SQUARE BET PREMIER WEBSITE

                   Think Before You Chant - Hyde FC





Following a successful event day on 1st Dec 2012 which saw HYDE FC host a Blue Square Bet Premier match as part of 2012 World Aids Day, a week later the Ewen Fields side became the first professional sports organisation to showcase the "TIME FOR CHANGE-NOW" exhibition as part of the "THINK BEFORE YOU CHANT" awareness raising day.

The day was funded with a grant from the European Gay and Lesbian Sports Federation (EGLSF) as part of their EU project "Preventing and Fighting Homophobic Violence and Intolerance in Sport.

The exhibition consists of 6 panels which aim to both raise awareness and educate around the issues of homosexuality and homophobia (anti-gay) abuse found in all sport

In addition to the exhibition a "Think before you chant" banner was put up pitch side.

The anti-homophobia campaigns group Just a Ball Game? have been co-delivery partners of this initiative with originators AFC Rushden and Diamonds who hope to send their fans away with the correct messages of what is acceptable to sing at games and what constitutes as unwanted and unnecessary discrimination.

Lindsay England who is Founding Director of Just a Ball Game? said: "Sport as a whole at present only touches on diversity and inclusion for those who identify as LGBT, and although a number of LGBT people are involve in sport at grass roots level are 'out' to family and friends, team mates and some club officials, those who participate at elite level and are 'out' publically are few and far between. So, with this in mind we are proud to be delivery partners on these initiatives."
Posted: Tuesday , December 11, 2012.

 

Monday, December 10, 2012

'Think before you Chant'


Think Before YOU Chant: 

TIME 4 CHANGE-NOW Exhibition

Hyde FC December 8th

 

 

 Hyde FC’s home fixture on 8tht December 2012 against Telford will see the Tigers once again team up with Just A Ball Game? to provide an event day called ‘Think Before You Chant’ which has been funded by the European Gay and Lesbian Sports Federation (EGLSF) grant  : Good Practices Development.

 The funding is part of the EU project “Preventing and Fighting Homophobic Violence and Intolerance in Sport – Pride in Sport” funded by the European Commission (DG Education and Culture – Sport unit).


 

The ‘Think Before You Chant’ initiative will also be a joint venture with  its originators AFC Rusden and Diamonds who will be having a “Think Before You Chant “ Day early next year.
The match ball sponsorship for the game will taken up by Just a Ball Game?

This follows the celebration of  World Aids Day on Dec 1st  when and this day was recognised with a red ribbon being provided to everyone who attended the fixture against Woking, and match ball sponsorship for the Hyde FC side. 

The Hyde manager and coaching staff will wear special football HIV Sport badges  for the match.







The days events will also show case for the first time to a sporting public another of Just a Ball Game?’s partnerships this time with Olympics legacy anti-homophobia exhibition project:

                                   TIME FOR CHANGE-NOW              EXHIBITION   

 The project was initiated by chance as an outcome of a consultation meeting to discuss preparations for the Olympic Torch passing through Bournemouth. Andrew Williams, Manager of the Safer and Stronger Communities Team at Bournemouth Borough Council, and Alan Mercel-Sanca (chairperson of a Dorset-based multicultural learning society and a trustee of Dorset Race Equality Council) discussing the multicultural preparations for the event. At the conclusion it was suggested that the LGBT population is, along with its ethnic communities and retired population, one of Bournemouth’s major distinctive communities, and it would therefore be good to have it represented in some meaningful way on the day.
Alan began to structure the project in October 2011and in particular to create thematic articles around key topics; the material taking shape over ten months and involving extensive research and the development of a valuable one-stop supportive links resource (found on the Appendix PDF and on the second section of the Using the Resource page.

Just a Ball Game? Organisation anti-discrimination in sport partnership initiative

Campaigning organisation Just A Ball Game?  looks at homophobia and other issues faced by Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT ) people who participate in varying ways in football and other sports is proud to be a supporter and delivery partner for the ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA IN SPORT EXHIBITION project.

 Sport as a whole at present only touches on diversity and inclusion for those who identify as LGBT, and although a number of LGBT people are involved in sport at grass roots level are ‘out’ to family, friends, team mates and club officials, those who participate at elite level and are ’out’ publically are few and far between.

Founding director of Just A Ball Game? Lindsay England says: “We hope to make use of the wonderful and dynamic exhibition as part of our on-going campaign work to raise awareness around homophobia and help mainstream sport to be more inclusive of a number of diversity issues and help create a safe space for both LGBT people and those who are perceived to be ‘lgbt’ to achieve their potential. The education element of this exhibition encourages an understanding of issued faced by LGBT people and at the same time highlights role models for a younger generation to aspire too. We at Just A Ball Game? would like to thank Alan Mercel-Sanca and the final year students of Bournemouth and Poole Collage for their inspiring efforts in the creation of these panels.”

 Just A Ball Game? Would also wish to acknowledge the support and funding for this event from : Preventing and Fighting Homophobic Violence and Intolerance in Sport – Pride in Sport” funded by the European Commission (DG Education and Culture – Sport unit).

 


 

 

Tuesday, December 04, 2012


World Aids Day at HYDE FC 1ST DEC 2012

 

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                  Hyde FC’s home fixture on 1st December 2012 against Woking

The date is World Aids day and this day will be recognised with a red ribbon being provided to everyone who attends the fixture. (we have over 500 to give out) 

The match ball sponsorship for the game will taken up by Just a Ball Game?.

The Hyde manager and coaching staff will wear special  football HIV Sport badges  for the match. Hyde FC will be giving a donation to Waverley Care, an HIV outreach service

 
 
"This program received the financial support of the EU Commission (DG
Education and Culture) as part of the project coordinated by the
European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation on "Preventing and Fighting
Homophobic Violence in Sport".
 
 
 
                                                              
Huge thanks to Hyde FC from Just A Ball Game? for their ongoing support for Diversity and against Homophobia