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What about a trip of a lifetime helping community projects in Kenya?

admin January 20, 2012

Cardiff City Community Foundation has teamed up with Kenyan Adventure to offer supporters an opportunity of a lifetime, spending 10 days working with a range of community projects in a developing area of south-western Kenya.

From 17^th– 27^th September, a group of Cardiff City supporters and ex-players will form the charity’s first-ever group trip to sub-Saharan Africa to give something back to the international community, whilst enjoying a unique travel experience and representing Cardiff City overseas!

From football coaching and building work to teaching in schools and community work with children, there are a range of project roles to choose from and the trip will require dynamic, enthusiastic individuals to help us achieve our goal to improve the lives of people less fortunate than us. You do not need to be qualified in your chosen field – you will be provided with teaching/sports coaching resources prior to departure to support you.

The trip also aims to raise £20,000 for Cardiff City Community Foundation, which will provide the registered charity (number 1128443) with vital funds to continue supporting projects and local people in the South Wales area.

Included in the trip is an incredible Rift Valley Adventure Day, a three-part adventure day comprising of a morning game drive in Lake Nakuru National safari park – the second most visited in Kenya – a stop off at the earth’s equator and an adventure trail at Thomson Falls near Nyahururu.

Individuals are asked to raise approximately £2,000 in order to take part, of which £832.00 will be raised for the Cardiff City Community Foundation. The Foundation will be holding a number of fundraising events to raise awareness of the trip and help participants raise the required amount.

The official trip launch takes place at Cardiff City Stadium on March 1st at 7.30pm, where you can find out all the information you need be a part of this exciting opportunity! Also included in this launch will be behind the scenes tour of the stadium.

If you are interesting in representing the Cardiff City Community Foundation during this once in a lifetime opportunity and wish to attend, please contact Michael Hayward on (029) 20643652 or email football4all@cardiffcityfc.co.uk to book your seat.

So what are you waiting for? Do something amazing this year and join Cardiff City Community Foundation’s 2012 Kenya squad!

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Your Magazine, Your Trust

admin January 19, 2012

Moving to a Different Beat, the Trust magazine has been published and will be available at the Portsmouth game.

After a couple of online-only magazines, the Trust, due to demand from fans, has produced a hard-copy version.

Its full colour and runs to 24 pages. There’s an interview over five pages with City star man Peter Whittingham while legend Jason Perry gives a fascinating insight into his career.

Echo soccer writer Terry Phillips tells us some of the stories from his time on the road with the Bluebirds and City historian Richard Shepherd is also interviewed. Richard boasts a remarkable archive and collection of memorabilia with fascinating details on what some of City’s greatest players in the 1960s earned.

We’ve also got a Bluebirds quiz and all the latest Trust news, an update on the Fred Keenor appeal and a tribute to stalwart Trust member Clive Prigg, who died recently.

The magazine is available free of charge to Trust members from the Trust office (near Gate 5, Canton and Ninian stands) and just £1 for non-members. An online version of the magazine – with additional articles – will be available on this website at the weekend.

We hope you enjoy the read and if you’d like to be involved in the next edition, due in April, please get in touch with us through help@ccfctrust.org.

Phillip Nifield, Trust board member (Communications)

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Tickets Arrangements – Cardiff v Leeds FA Cup 2002 Anniversary Event

admin January 15, 2012

Tickets will be available from the Trust Office (accessed from outside the stadium to the right of Gate 5) at all home matches from the times below:

Portsmouth Saturday 21^st January 2pm
Crystal Palace Tuesday 24^th January 7pm
Blackpool Saturday 4^th February 2pm
Peterborough Tuesday 14^th February 7pm

If you have already contacted the Trust to reserve tickets then they will be ready for you to collect at any of the above matches, please note that where appropriate you will need to pay at the time you collect.

From the Portsmouth match onwards tickets are available to all Cardiff City supporters from the Trust Office.

The Trust arranged an event to mark the 10th anniversary of the Bluebirds’ famous FA Cup 3rd round victory over Leeds United in January 2002. The anniversary function will take place in the Redrow Suite at the Cardiff City Stadium on the evening of Tuesday 21 February 2012, with doors opening at 7:00pm for a 7:30pm start.

The event will be hosted by BBC Radio Wales football correspondent Rob Phillips and the guests of honour are Graham Kavanagh, Robert Earnshaw, Andy Legg and Scott Young.

If you would like to go to this event please contact Tracey Marsh at help@ccfctrust.org

Tickets for this event are free to members of the Supporters’ Trust and are available to non-members for just £3.00. All proceeds from the event will be donated to the Fred Keenor Statue Fund.

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Bluebirds v Leeds United 2002 FA Cup Anniversary Event at the Cardiff City Stadium

admin January 5, 2012

The Cardiff City Supporters’ Trust is proud to announce the arrangements for an event to mark the tenth anniversary of the Bluebirds’ famous FA Cup 3rd round victory over Leeds United in January 2002.

City, who were tenth in the Second Division table, defeated the Premier League leaders 2-1 to cause one of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history on an afternoon that nobody who was present at NinianPark will ever forget.

The anniversary function will take place in the Redrow Suite at the Cardiff City Stadium on the evening of Tuesday 21 February 2012, with doors opening at 7:00pm for a 7:30pm start.

The event will be hosted by BBC Radio Wales football correspondent Rob Phillips and the guests of honour are Graham Kavanagh, Robert Earnshaw, Andy Legg and Scott Young.

Midfielder Kav captained the City side and scored the equalising goal with a stunning free-kick, striker Earnie gave the Leeds defenders a torrid afternoon, left-back Leggy was involved in the controversial incident that saw visiting forward Alan Smith sent off and centre-back Scott netted the amazing winner with just three minutes left to play.

The evening to mark one of the club’s most memorable triumphs will begin with a football quiz. Highlights of the 2002 Cardiff v Leeds FA Cup match will then be screened before Rob Phillips hosts a questions and answers session with the four players.

Tickets for this event are free to members of the Supporters’ Trust and available to non-members for just £3.00. All proceeds from the event will be donated to the Fred Keenor Statue Fund.

Tickets are reserved for Trust members and their guests until Saturday 21st January, when they will go on general sale.

The tickets will be available for collection from the Trust office at the Cardiff City Stadium (situated to the right of the turnstiles at Gate 5) before forthcoming home matches on dates to be announced.

To apply for tickets, please contact Tracey Marsh at: help@ccfctrust.org

Trust members who are applying for free tickets will need to state their full name and membership number (or address if the number is not known), along with the names of any guests they wish to purchase tickets for. Non-members can redeem the cost of their tickets by joining the Trust on the night.

This is certain to be a popular event, so please ensure that you apply for your tickets as soon as possible.

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PLAYING FOR PEACE IN KENYA

admin December 30, 2011

Trust chair, Tim Hartley, led a British Council team of volunteers from Cardiff to Kenya on a project which uses football to try to stop inter communal violence.

Stabua and Tim Hartley in KenyaThe football project in Kenya

Never mind our rivalry with Swansea. At election time in Kenya supporting the wrong football team can cost you your life.

Stabua Yusuf lives in Nairobi’s most notorious slum district and coaches Anyany Sisters women’s football team. Many of the girls who play for Anyany are victims of rape, politically motivated and carried out during the violence that claimed hundreds of lives following Kenya’s presidential election in 2007.

Stabua started the team to try to help the girls regain some self respect. “We don’t even have a full kit,” she says, “but theys love playing and it really has made a difference to them.”

Stabua’s was just one of many stories I heard during a week working with community leaders from across Kenya. The Welsh team wanted to help build community cohesion before next year’s presidential election. Like everyone else in Kenya, Stabua is the victim of her own country’s recent history.

In 2007 Mwai Kibaki won the presidential election. His opponent said the election was rigged and all hell broke loose. Police shot demonstrators and ethnic violence escalated, ending with the killing of 30 unarmed civilians in a church. With the country on the verge of civil war the two candidates formed a coalition government to maintain peace.

As part of the reconciliation effort the British Council has been working with so called ‘Active Citizens’ in Kenya to help build social cohesion. The Kenyans visited Wales in 2009 and saw Cardiff City’s Football in the Community team developing players and coaches. The Welsh volunteers were then invited back to Kenya for a week of practical coaching sessions and discussions on how we can use football to bridge divisions. Every one there had a story to tell.

“Call me Scaar,” sayid Oscar Omondi Onyango, “it’s what they call me back home in Nyanza Province.” Scaar has witnessed for years how families in Nyanza have suffered from cattle rustling. Tit for tat raids have left many dead and the homes of suspects have been torched.

It had to stop. So Scaar organised a community football festival to ‘sensitise’ young men as he puts it and listened attentively to Miz Rahman from the Welsh Football Trust talk about the South Wales multicultural league. Miz arranged for Pakistani, Somali and other teams to play in a league of their own. It proved a big success and rather than ghettoising these players, Cardiff’s Yemeni and Swansea’s Bangladeshi teams both now play in the regular Sunday leagues.

In Diani, south of Mombassa, we met Bakari who had visited Cardiff in 2009. He’d also organised a football tournament ahead of last year’s referendum in Kenya. Kenya’s coastal strip is a cosmopolitan area and there are many conflicting traditions vying for power. Speeches between the games at the tournament urged youths not to fight. It may have been coincidence, but the referendum passed without any serious incident.

So will the work of the Welsh and Kenyan volunteers influence anything on the ground? Who knows? But if the president were chosen on the basis of commitment and goodwill, then Stabua, Scaar or any one of the Active Citizens I met in Kenya would get my vote.

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