Frodsham U-9S Football Team Boosted by Redrow Kit Sponsorship

FRODSHAM Junior Football Club’s U9s teams have kicked off their return to matches post-lockdown in style after scoring new kit from homebuilder Redrow.

Left: A Frodsham JFC player in the new kit

The club is benefitting from a £1,000 sponsorship deal with Daresbury-based Redrow NW, responsible for new homes across Cheshire, parts of Merseyside and North Wales.

Redrow’s Cheshire developments include Hartford Grange, in Hartford, Ledsham Garden Village and Kings Moat Garden Village, in Chester, and it will soon be launching a brand new garden village alongside its regional offices in Daresbury.

Frodsham JFC agreed an exciting new deal with a local kit supplier which has seen the creation of a brand-new, bespoke kit, with the final shirt design being chosen by Club members.

Eventually, all the teams at Frodsham JFC will wear the same style kit and, thanks to Redrow’s sponsorship, players in two under-9 teams are the first to model the new style.

Frodsham Juniors is one of the largest junior football clubs in the Cheshire FA with 27 teams from under 7s through to under 18s. The Club has over 450 registered players and one of the largest girls’ sections of any local grassroots club with over seven teams and in excess of 100 girls registered to play. The girls’ section is also an official sister club of Manchester City Ladies FC. at Helsby High School. Jointly with the school, the club was a driving force behind the £1.2 million project, and they fundraised £100,000. The Football Foundation and Cheshire West and Chester Council also made significant contributions.

Jason Newton, managing director at Redrow NW said: “Frodsham Junior Football Club is a club that brings so much opportunity to its players. I know that the players have fantastic talent, with some of its past players being scouted and going on to train with the academies of professional teams.”

Club Chairman, Nigel Cunniffe stated: “We can’t thank Redrow enough for their kind and generous support. The new kits look fantastic and I know the Under 9s teams are proud to be the first to wear them. Major purchases such as these are only made possible through the fantastic support and contributions given by our Club’s very generous supporters and sponsors.”

See https://www.frodshamjfc.co.uk/ for more information and to track the progress of the club.

Treasure Your River Launches to Clean up The Mersey

Mersey Rivers Trust and Hubbub unveil Summer programme of litter clearing activities. Communities called on to join UK’s largest ever collaboration to reduce river litter.

Amajor new campaign, Treasure Your River, launches today to help reduce the huge amount of litter entering the River Mersey and subsequently the ocean. Sustainable Hive and environmental charity Hubbub are calling for businesses, community groups, residents and other organisations situated along the River Mersey to get involved.

The campaign will run over the remainder of the year and the programme of activities for this Summer, unveiled today, includes a silent disco litter pick, art installation, paddle and picks and robot litterclearing pirate boats.

From displaying posters and taking part in litter picks to hosting new bins, there is a part to play for everyone. Offices, pubs, bars, cafes and community groups are encouraged to sign up to access materials, join events and get further information about how they can get involved.

Hundreds of volunteers across the UK from organisations including the Angling Trust, Canal & River Trust, Keep Scotland Beautiful, Keep Wales Tidy, Mersey Rivers Trust, Sustainable Hive, Thames21, The Rivers Trust and companies like Coca-Cola and Costa have already pledged to do their bit. And in the North West, the campaign has already secured the support of Salford City Council, with plastic fishing trips set to be run from the council’s watersports centre in Salford Quays during early July.

Treasure Your River aims to be the UK’s largest ever collaborative effort to prevent and reduce the amount of litter in our waterways, tackling seven of the UK’s largest river systems: the Mersey, Avon, Forth, Severn, Taff, Thames and Trent and their tributaries. The campaign is being run by environmental charity Hubbub and supported by The Coca-Cola Foundation. It will initially focus on preventing litter from entering the rivers and clean-up activities in major cities based on these rivers and the waterways that flow into them – Manchester and Salford, Liverpool, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London and Nottingham, which between them are home to 1 in 6 of the UK population.

In 2019, Hubbub’s polling1 found that 75% of UK adults wanted to do more to help tackle marine litter. After a year of lockdown people’s appreciation of nature has risen further and Treasure Your River will provide more opportunities for people around the UK to get involved and help protect our rivers and seas. Treasure Your River will engage the public on how they can make a difference through simple changes such as taking their rubbish home with them, providing tools and guidance for litter picks and responsible disposal of fishing tackle. As well as tackling littering behaviour with eye-catching bins and activities, the campaign aims to create a legacy for each river, with an army of regular volunteers and litter-clearing infrastructure.

Mike Duddy from Mersey Rivers

Trust said “Since the early 1990s the waterways of the River Mersey have been in rapid recovery mode – with species of plants, fish and mammals being recorded after absences of over 200 years.

“Despite these improvements, there is more to do to clean up the Mersey, including tackling litter in our urban rivers. The Mersey Rivers Trust is delighted to be involved in the Treasure Your River campaign which will focus on cleaning up litter in local rivers in Manchester, Salford and Liverpool and working with local communities to stop litter from entering our rivers in the future.”

Gavin Ellis, Director and

Co-founder of Hubbub said “As lockdown restrictions are lifted there is increased concern about the amount of litter in our public and green spaces. Treasure Your River aims to make the connection between litter in our towns and cities and plastic in the oceans, and to offer people something positive they can do about it. The majority of plastics in the oceans are carried there by rivers; the River Mersey for example has proportionately higher levels of microplastic pollution than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. We invite any individual or organisations along these rivers to come together and help halt the flow of litter into the sea. There’s something for everyone, whether you’re a local business, a sailing club, a school, a charity or a resident.”

To find out more and sign up to the campaign visit: www.treasureyourriver.co.uk