CSF CSF volunteer Duncan MacInnes is tonight’s Community Hero He makes regular visits throughout the season to the hospital to meet poorly patients and in June 2013, he reached an impressive milestone when he visited 15-year-old Ellie Loades – his 3,000th patient. Duncan shows short highlights of recent Norwich City matches and provides fascinating anecdotes and stories from the club to patients and their relatives in wards and clinics. Keep an eye out for CSF volunteer and passionate Norwich City season-ticket holder Duncan MacInnes at tonight’s game.
Above: Duncan shows recent match highlights to a young City fan
Duncan, 61, will bring out the matchball prior to kick-off as City’s ‘Community Hero’.
All children’s wards of the hospital are visited by Caring in the Community
Duncan heads up Community Sports Foundation’s Caring in the Community programme, a free service for patients at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital.
He comes equipped with matchday programmes, posters and Caring in the Community stickers – plus, from time to time, signed City goodies. Caring in the Community was founded in 2003 as Canaries for the Community but was relaunched under its new name this year, thanks to funding from CSF’s Sporting Light Appeal. To find out more about the programme, visit communitysportsfoundation.org.uk.
Young campers enjoy Fit4it Junior Camp It was a week of adventure activities, fun workshops and new friendships for participants on CSF’s Fit4it Junior Camp. Over a hundred children joined us over February half-term for the free camp. Run in conjunction with Public Health, the Junior camp is aimed at seven to 12-year-olds who may be struggling to control or maintain their weight and included health workshops and a variety of sport sessions.
Above: Fit4it campers try their hand at abseiling
see so many new friendships forged,” said Tessa Beecroft, CSF Health Development Officer.
Above right: The week included a session on sugar content
“We hope they’ve learned lots of useful information about the importance of being active.”
The highlight of the week was a two-day stay at the scenic thirty-acre Kingswood West Runton activity centre, which overlooks the North Norfolk coast, where campers enjoyed activities including zip wires, abseiling and aeroball. “The campers who left us at the end of the week were full of confidence. It was great to 01603 761122 info@communitysportsfoundation.org.uk Community Sports Foundation, Norwich City FC, Carrow Road, Norwich, NR1 1JE. Registered charity 1088239
The participants will meet again for a series of follow-up sessions, before their Celebration Evening event at Carrow Road in May to mark their successes on the course. The camp will run again this May half-term. To find out more, email tessa.beecroft@canaries. co.uk or call 01603 761122. www.communitysportsfoundation.org.uk @norwichcityCSF www.facebook.com/communitysportsfoundation
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