Middlesbrough Football Club in The Community employs 55 full-time members of staff to deliver a number of quality programmes throughout the Tees Valley area. They concentrate on four areas of development: Football First – An Entry to Employment initiative which is a full-time individualized learning programme for disaffected 16 to 18 year olds to get them in to further training, education or employment.
Enterprise Academy - Working in all secondary schools and colleges to deliver enterprise, business and career guidance based on the business of Middlesbrough FC (MFC).
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Health & Football – Delivering Planning, Preparation and Assessment (PPA) for primary schools, after-school clubs, match day experience, one day health courses, holiday course coaching
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MFC Operations – Delivering facilities for the above and providing facility hire, coaching, leagues, tournaments and birthday parties.
The teams are based over two sites; The Willie Maddren Centre at the Riverside Stadium and the Middlesbrough Football Club in the Community Centre at Eston. There are numerous classrooms, an indoor 3G pitch, a further indoor astro pitch, outdoor floodlit astro and floodlit grass pitches.
Heading for Health
In partnership with Middlesbrough Primary Care Trust they deliver a health and physical activity programme that provides fun and exciting activities for both children and adults.
Concentrated programme in six schools with breakfast, lunch, curriculum and after-school sessions, family fitness, one-day courses, and sports and health days.
One-day Healthy Lifestyle days for all schools at Key Stage 1 and 2 with follow up activity booklets linked to the web-site
Disability Engagement Programme in schools, festivals, weekend clubs for adults and juniors, and mid-week care centres
·Disaffected young adults healthy lifestyle programme with health workshops and training programmes
For more information please contact stephen.newham@mfcp.co.uk.
Enterprise Academy
In partnership with Government North East, Middlesbrough FC in the Community deliver a business enterprise and career guidance programme that uses the Football Club as the business tool to engage young people.
Operation Apprenticeships – a programme for Young Offenders looking at career opportunities in ground work, catering and electrics and then rewarding them with taster days at the Riverside Stadium
Retail Stars – a programme for young people with learning difficulties concentrating on marketing, accounting and product design and culminating in a trading day at the stadium.
Executive Hot Shots - working with gifted and talented students from deprived areas to work on real issues within MFC and the Community programme and reporting back their findings at boardroom level.
Core programmes for schools with accredited qualifications in business and enterprise, career planning and preparation for employment
For more information please contact Helena.bowman@mfcp.co.uk.
Pre Entry 2 Employment Project
The pre E2E programme offers intensive information, advice and guidance as well as mentoring support on a one to one basis and also in small group sessions. A caring and learner centred approach is balanced by the absolute necessaity of ensuring the young people become independent and self-motivated to identify their progression routes into employment, training or further education.
MFCiC Delivery Workers engage with these young people from the local communities using the attracting of player appearances and the medium of football.
MFCiC's second site: the Eston Leisure Complex, based in the heart of the community, acts as the central focus for the course with fully functional and well equipped classrooms for one on one sessions and workshops. The brand new 3G Astro turn pitches in the Herlingshaw Centre as well as large grassed spaces outdoors for more active challenges, build an exciting environment for young people to access many sessions they may not have had the opportunity to do so in the past. MFCiC promote a variety of activities and not just football; these include range from gymnastics, boxercise to circuit training, all designed to meet the the needs of the learners.
If you would like further information about this project, please contact Kerry Swan, the E2E Project Manager at kerry.swan@mfcp.co.uk or on 01642 451 824.
