Show Racism the Red Card - Amazon S3...newsletter june 07 1 Newsletter June 2007 Issue 2 Welcome to the second newsletter of Show Racism the Red Card in the UK for 2007. The 2006/7

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Newsletter June 2007 Issue 2

Welcome to the secondnewsletter of Show Racism theRed Card in the UK for 2007. The2006/7 season was our mostsuccessful season ever and itculminated in our prize givingceremonies at Hampden, theMillennium Stadium andWembley. These events werethe highlights of this year’scampaign and they wereinspirational events for theyoung prize winners.

A big thank you to all the

Football Clubs in providingprizes and to all those whoattended the events. Over 800schools registered to take part inthis year’s competition and thestandard of young people’s workwas outstanding.

We have worked with a recordnumber of clubs this season.Since January 17th we havebeen at Plymouth, NewcastleFalcons, Sunderland CivicCentre, Dagenham andRedbridge, Newcastle United,

Liverpool, Wrexham, Darlington,Birmingham City,Middlesbrough, Colchester,Tranmere, QPR, Crystal Palace,South Shields Town Hall, Spurs,Yeovil, Millennium Stadium,Bury and Wembley Stadium. Atotal of 20 events in a 16 weekperiod! Scotland has also seen amajor increase in our events atclubs. We have held events atRangers, Aberdeen, Hearts,Kilmarnock, Hibernian, Dundee,Dundee United, Motherwell, StMirren, Dunfermline, PartickThistle and St. Johnsone.

Our finances are also in a goodposition and it was great newsto find out that the FootballFoundation are increasing ourgrant to £219,188 over threeyears.

This is by far the biggest singledonation we have received inEngland. We have also securedfunding agreements with SouthTyneside (over three years) andNorth Tyneside Councils (twoyears); which have enabled us tomatch fund the FootballFoundation grant.

Finally, a touring exhibitionof the young people’s work fromthe competition is now availableto organisations free of chargevia our offices in England,Scotland and Wales.

Show Racismthe Red Card

Introductionby Ged Grebby

Pictured above Kashif Afzal, Schools Competition prize winner from Talbot Special School.

Since the last newsletter, thecampaign in Wales has seen anumber of activities take placewith our message reaching out toall parts of the country.

The Show Racism the Red Cardschools competition had the mostnumber of registrations fromWales than it has ever had inprevious years with over 10,000school children watching our DVD.

There were 52 schools registeredfor the competition and they camefrom all parts of Wales, the entriesincluded pieces of quality artwork,poetry and stories, we alsoreceived entries from Welshspeaking schools for the first timesince we started running thecompetition.

Our prize giving ceremony tookplace at the Millennium Stadium inCardiff and attracted currentFootballers including WarrenFeeney from Cardiff City, SwanseaCity player Owain Tudor-Jonesalong with Gwennan Harris andMichelle Green from the Waleswomen’s football team.

The prizes included match tickets,signed footballs and shirts, the 5winners won the opportunity towatch the Wales football squad ina training session and meet theplayers, the overall winner havingthe added prize of a trip to meetThierry Henry in London.

A club event was held at WrexhamFootball Club where we unveiledthe new Wrexham FC poster, theevent saw first team playerstalking to local school childrenabout the issue of racism.

Posters have also been producedwith Swansea City FC and theWales football squad, the postershave been extremely popular withyoung people and we are in theprocess of producing posters forthe women’s game with the Walesunder 19 team.

We arranged anti-racism show ofaction activities with Newport FC,Porthmadog FC and the Walesunder 19 women’s squad in thepast few months.

Boxing star Amir Khan was inCardiff in April and showed hissupport for the campaign, it wasgreat to meet up with Amir whomade time from his busy schedulefor a photo shoot.

The rest of the year will see thecampaign in Wales working withmore clubs from the WelshPremier league as well as clubs atgrassroots level, we will beinvolved with the EuropeanFortnight of action in October andwe will continue working towards‘showing racism the red card’.

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Pictured above prize giving event at Wrexham photo features Shaun

Pejic, Matt Crowell and Lee Roche with prize winners .

Pictured above Sunil Patel with boxing star

Amir Khan.

If you would like to be involved with the campaign in Wales,please email me at [email protected]

Campaign in Wales

To say it’s been a hectic few months would be a

gross understatement. From Scotland manager Alex

McLeish meeting 300 young anti-racists, to stadium

events at major Scottish football clubs, our message is

being spread far and wide. Below is a brief summary

of our activity over the last four months.

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ScottishCampaign

Schools Art Competition

One of the highlights of our campaignis our annual schools competition.Over 8000 pupils took part and allentries were of an extremely highstandard. The anti racist message wasput forward in a mature andsophisticated manner. The quality ofthe submitted entries this year wassubstantially higher than previousyears and the eventual overall winner

Pictured below Schools Art Competition prize giving ceremony at Hampden Park

on 19th of April 2007. Features: From Left to Right, from the bottom of the photo.

Row 1: Shelton Martis (Hibernian FC); Competition Winners Row 2: Michael

Stewart (Hibernian FC); Competition Winners Row 3: Mark Kerr (Dundee United

FC); Alex McLeish (Scotland Manager); Gordon Greer (Kilmarnock FC); Collin

Samuel (Dundee United FC); Robbie Neilson (Hearts FC)

.

Pictured below SRTRC workshop with Dundee FC and

young people from St Saviours Secondary School and

Dens Road Primary School. Photo "Courtesy of D. C.

Thomson & Co Ltd." Features: From Left to Right, from

the bottom of the photo: Row 1: Khaled Hamdaoui

(Dundee FC); Ludovic Roy (Dundee FC). Row 2: Kevin

Keenan (Dundee City Council); Dyron Daal (Dundee FC);

Billy Singh (SRTRC); David MacKinnon (Chief Executive,

Dundee FC).


demonstrated this. This year’scompetition culminated with 300pupils attending the prize givingceremony at Hampden Park. Also inattendance were players from all themajor Scottish Premier League clubs aswell as Scotland manager AlexMcLeish. All Scottish Premier Leagueclubs donated prizes, which includedmatch tickets, hospitality days andsigned footballs and jerseys andCanon also donated digital cameras toall prizewinners. Deacon Bluedrummer and BBC Scotland sportspersonality Dougie Vipond chaired theevent. We hope to tour the prizewinning entries around Scotland andexhibit them in libraries, councilbuildings and business premises. Well

done to all who took part and we are already makingplans for next years competition with our majorpartners The Educational Institute of Scotland.

Stadium Events

Over 1500 young people attended our anti-racistworkshops at Aberdeen, Dundee, Dundee United,Dunfermline, Hearts, Hibernian, Kilmarnock, Livingston,Motherwell, Partick Thistle and Rangers. Clubs sentalong players as well as donating a raffle prize of asigned football and/or jersey. Our event at Heartsattracted over 250 pupils and in addition to the raffleprizes the club donated a Hearts football top toevery pupil!

Launch of Good Practice Guide for Councils

In February we formally launched our Good PracticeGuide for Councils at Hampden Park. Colleagues fromEngland and Wales and friends from Red Cardcampaigns in Ireland and Norway joined us. Our guestspeaker was ex Celtic, Chelsea and Pisa star Paul Elliotwho is now an ambassador for FIFPro, the internationalplayers union. Our Good Practice Guide is designed to

Billy Singh,Campaign Co-ordinator

Scotland >

Further info:www.theredcardscotland.org

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Pictured above Anti racist workshop with Kilmarnock FC

at Rugby Park on the 9th of May 2007. Features: from

Left to Right: Eric Skora; Aime Koudou;

Tim Clancy and local school children.

Pictured below SRTRC workshop with Partick Thistle

FC and young people from St Charles Primary School.

Features: from Left to Right, from the bottom of the

photo: Browne Ferguson (Partick Thistle FC); Derek

Young (Partick Thistle FC).

help local councils work closely with our campaign andget the best out of our ant-racist resources and theservices we can provide. Curently in Scotland we haveformal partnership agreements with four councils andnegotiations are at an advanced stage with eightothers.

The coming months

With the football season coming to an end we will befocusing our attention on other events. For the firsttime we will have a presence at Scotlands largest musicfestival at T-in-The-Park which will be headlined byShow Racism the Red Card supporters Snow Patrol. Wewill be at several other music festivals as well as theEdinburgh and Glasgow Melas. Preparations will beginfor this year’s Fortnight of Action and producing newsquad posters for the start of next season.

There will be a period of reflection on the year so farand the team in Scotland are already looking toexpand our activity and tackle the scourge that isracism in our society.


‘SRTRC have increased the number ofevents held at football clubs this year.Thank you to all of the people whohave helped us to organise theseevents. These reports have been editeddue to space, full versions of thesereports are available on our website.

Show Racism the Red CardSchool’s Art Competition 2007Report by Zoobia Aslam

It is estimated that overall number ofparticipants for this year’s competition wasaround 8000. The entries were of an extremelyhigh standard and the anti racist message wasput forward in a mature and sophisticatedmanner. The quality of the submitted entriesthis year was substantially higher than previousyears this was demonstrated by the eventualoverall winner.

The Scottish clubs demonstrated their steadfastsupport for the campaign again this year bygenerously donating fantastic prizes. Prizeswere donated by 12 clubs, the SFA and SPL.Canon once again donated digital cameras forthe winners, and of course with the support ofthe Scottish Executive we were once again ableto provide prize winners with cheques rangingfrom £400 to £1000.

The prizes donated by the clubs included signedballs, signed shirts, match tickets for the classand VIP days at clubs for a winner and 3 guests.This year we were also offering the chance tomeet Thierry Henry to all the winners. As withevery year the overall winner is not announceduntil the end of the prize giving ceremony, thisyear the suspense was doubled as the ThierryHenry meeting was due to be raffled at the endof the ceremony also.

As well as the donated prizes Scottish clubswere supportive of the competition in othercapacities also. Almost all the clubs providedplayers to attend the Ceremony. The playerturnout on the day was an improvement on lastyear. We had representatives from: Rangers FC,Celtic FC, Dundee Utd FC, Hearts FC, HibernianFC, Kilmarnock FC, Motherwell FC, PartickThistle FC and of course Scotland Manager AlexMcLeish. The players presented prizes and madethemselves available for autographs andPhotographs. Kilmarnock FC also sent alongNuts their team mascot to add to the day.

All the attending young people were givengoody bags which were packed full again thisyear. The contents included pencils, rulers, pens,football stickers, key rings, balls, mouse matsand much more. The bags also included ShowRacism the Red Card Scotland squad posters and

SRTRC Event Reports Feb - April 2007

Pictured above a winning artwork from our Show Racism the Red

Card School’s Art Competition 2007.

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more SRTRC Event Reports 2007magazines. All winners were given a t-shirt inaddition to this.

Awarding excellence . . .

The awards ceremony took place at HampdenPark on the 19th of April and was hosted byDougie Vipond. On the day as well as the prizewinners other partner organisations, fundersand supporters of the campaign were invited toattend. The ceremony followed the same formatas previous years. The prizes donated by theclubs were presented along with cheques. Afterthe presentation of the prizes everyoneproceeded out on to the pitch for a photo call.

Support . . .

As usual we worked very closely with the EIS onthis year’s competition. The EIS were responsiblefor all administration, promotion and printingfor this year’s competition. Sheila Harris, PaulBenzie, Kate Blackwell, Veronica Rankin andSimon Hodgson were all part of the supportnetwork working on the Schools Artcompetition from the EIS.

The SFA were also key partners in this year’scompetition. The SFA provided us with the useof the facilities at Hampden on the day as well

as packed lunches and tours of Hampden Parkfor all attendees. Derek Kirkwood (Chief securityadvisor SFA) was on hand throughout the yearto support and advise on any matters.

The Scottish Executive provided us with thefunding to run the competition this year. Thefunding covered the prize money, the displayboards, post event reception etc. The ScottishExecutive have funded the project in variousareas but the support of the competitionhighlights the focus on anti racist education inScotland and the significance of the ShowRacism the Red Card Scotland Schools Artcompetition.

Next year’s competition . . .

After a thoroughly exciting time the ShowRacism the Red Card School’s Art Competitioncloses for another year. We hope to not onlybuild on the success of this year’s competitionbut to advance the anti racist message of nextyear’s competition. We aim to strengthen theanti racist message for our next competition andenhance a competition, which resonates with adurable message for young people to tackleracism through artistic expression.

Pictured above Kate Blackwell from the EIS.

Pictured above John Barnes and Alan Kennedy at Anfield.

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By Gavin Sutherland,Campaign Worker for England

It is one of Show Racism the Red Card’s aimsfor 2007 to increase the amount of educationalevents we organise with football clubs foryoung people. At these events schools fromthe locality are invited to bring a group ofpupils, who have the opportunity to view ascreening of the SRtRC DVD and take part in aQuestion and Answer session with playersfrom the club, about racism.

During the period of February – April, wemanaged to organise 12 different events,featuring 37 players, former players and

managers and attended by approximately 1080young people. These events also included a fullday event at Newcastle United, in partnershipwith Positive Images and CSV CommunityConnections, which featured educationalworkshops in the morning, and also an event at

South Shields Town Hall where we unveiled our‘Working with Show Racism the Red Card andtheir Resources: Guide for Local Authorities’.Here is the list of the events during this period.

• 06/02/07 – Together Educating Against Racism, St James’ Park

• 13/02/07 – Liverpool FC,Launch of Schools Competition

• 14/02/07 – Wrexham FC

• 28/02/07 – Darlington FC

• 06/03/07 – Birmingham City FC

• 07/03/07 – Middlesbrough FC

• 15/03/07 – Colchester United FC

• 20/03/07 – Tranmere Rovers FC

• 27/03/07 – Queens Park Rangers FC

• 28/03/07 – Crystal Palace FC

• 29/03/07 – Launch of ‘Working with SRTRC andtheir Resources: Guide for Local Authorities’

• 16/04/07 – Tottenham Hotspur FC

• 17/04/07 – Yeovil Town FC

more SRTRC Event Reports 2007

Pictured above, Glenn Roeder with young people attending the

Newcastle United event.

Pictured above at the SRTRC event features left to right, Mary

Lawmann (Croydon Council), Hope Powell (England Womens

Manager), Leon Cort and Kit Symons of C Palace, Paul Canoville and

Councillor Taylor from Croydon council.

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Due to a shortage of space we are unable toprovide a full report of each event here, butreports on all of the events this year, areavailable on our website. We will book severalmore events from September to December, tocoincide with the beginning of the new footballseason, our aim is to hold 40 of these eventsduring 2007.

I would like to thank all of the Football Clubswho have hosted these events and the peopleat Football Clubs and Partnership organisations

who have assisted us in organising them, as wellas the young people and schools who haveattended and taken part in them.

A report on the biggest Show Racism the RedCard event so far this year, the Prize GivingCeremony at Wembley for winners of theEngland Anti-Racist Schools Competition,follows later in this newsletter. A full reportabout the schools competition will be availablesoon and may also appear on our website. Ourthanks to all of the young people and schoolswho participated in the competition this year,Football Clubs who donated prizes, Umbro, thejudges, and sponsors of the competition.


Pictured above, pupils from St Aidan’s Primary School in the players

changing room at St James’ Park.

www.theredcard.org

North East CommunityEducation Team ReportFebruary - May 2007Report by Sarah Soyei

It has been a busy period for the CommunityEducation Team; we have held some successfulevents including “Together Educating AgainstRacism” at St James Park and the launch of ourguide for councils in England.

We are very pleased to be working increasinglyin partnership with other organisationspromoting inclusion and fighting discriminationin North East England. We held two citizenshipdays in Newlands School, Middlesbrough inconjunction with Save the Children and Durhamand Darlington Race Equality Council, and havefurther events with CSV, Positive Images, NERS(the North East Refugee Service) and TheChildren’s Society. These partnerships mean thatwe are able to share good practice and deliver amore in depth and broader service to the youngpeople. ARCH (Agencies Reporting Racial Crimeand Harassment) delivered an excellent trainingday to North East Based Staff and Volunteers inApril and donated their fee to help fund“Walker United 2007” for which we areextremely grateful.

North Tyneside Council cemented their supportfor the educational work and ensured that wewill have a strong presence in the borough into2008 by funding the campaign over two yearsand we are pleased that South Tyneside Councilhave agreed the same. We have also beensuccessful in our bid to the Football Foundation,which has meant that we will be employingmore staff in the North East and deliveringmore community based events alongside theeducational work in schools. Walker United2007 will be held on Saturday 21st July andAmble United 2007 on Saturday 28th July,Wallsend United 2007 on Saturday 4th August.Finally, we will be helping to launch refugeeweek by delivering workshops to young peopleat the SAGE Gateshead on the 18th June andco-running a competition for young people inthe North East to create a positive newspaperarticle about refugees. The entries will tour theNorth East as part of Refugee Week and thewinners will be presented with their prizes atthe regional event on the 22nd June.



Pictured above Sarah Soyei at our ‘Walker United’ event with Kim

Burns, volunteer.

If you would like more information about

this competition or any aspect of the

community education work please e-mail:

[email protected]

Pictured above, Sarah Soyei at the Guide for Local Authorities Launch.

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more SRTRC Event Reports 2007SRTRC Anti-Racist SchoolsCompetition Prize GivingCeremony, Wembley Stadium -3rd May 2007

Report by Laura Fleck

In May Show Racism the Red Card went to thebrand new Wembley Stadium for the EnglishPrize Giving Ceremony of our 8th annual AntiRacist Schools Competition. This completed ahat-trick of national stadiums which sawScottish and Welsh winners rewarded atHampden Park and the Millennium Stadiumrespectively, in the year that saw more thanthree times the number of schools participatingthan in 2006.

Some 500 entries were whittled down by ourjudges to just 29 winning children who – alongwith their teachers and families - joined us at

the home of English football where they werepresented with their awards by a range of pastand present players as well as sponsors andcelebrities. The generosity of football clubs fromall four divisions meant that the pupils wererewarded for their hard work with somefantastic prizes, which included visits toPremiership training grounds such as Chelsea,

Pictured below Some Wembley attendees from Wallsend Boys Club

with the F.A. cup.

Pictured above Wembley Stadium Prize Giving Ceremony photo

features Simrit Ghatore reading her winning poem flanked by Hosts

Charlie Hardwick and Robbie Earle.

Arsenal and Manchester United, as well assigned shirts and footballs and even places onsummer soccer schools.

Continuing their successful presentingpartnership of the last few years were theexcellent Charlie Hardwick of Emmerdale andSRTRC Patron Robbie Earle, who led the eventwith their usual warmth and humour. After thehonours had been awarded in all sevencategories, 8 year old Ryan Tanner of TickfordPark School in Milton Keynes was revealed to bethe overall prize winner. His outstandingartwork earned him a trip to meet Thierry Henrythis summer, and Baljeet Ghale, President of the

NUT, was on hand to present a laptop kindlydonated by her Union to Ryan’s school.Many of our sponsors were present on the day,and we are very grateful for their continuedsupport, which enables us to hold events such asthis. Also enjoying a trip to Wembley werevarious Show Racism the Red Card Patrons,including Warren Barton, David Kelly, BobBolder and Paul Elliot. They were joined bycurrent players from throughout the footballleagues such as SRtRC Patron Chris Powell ofWatford , Efe Sodje of Southend, Lee Harrisonof Barnet and Dagenham and Redbridge playersSam Saunders, Anwar Uddin and Danny Foster.

In addition to posing for pictures with the FACup and marvelling at the Silky Skills of RichardBraithwaite, a highlight of the day for all whoattended was listening to the poetry and storyreadings which reminded our audience why thecampaign to eliminate racism and the sorrow itbrings is so important, so well done to SimritGhatore, Emily Jeffries, Amy Reynolds, Lisa Scottand Sarah Tambo.

Plans are already in place to ensure that the2008 competition is even bigger and better thanever, giving as many young people as possiblethe chance to participate in the campaign andhelp us combat racism in all its forms.



Pictured above Wembley Stadium Prize Giving Event features Awards

ceremony Host Charlie Hardwick and School Competition Winner 2007

Ryan Tanner.

Pictured above Wembley Stadium Prize Giving Event features left to

right: Efe Sodje Southend United, prize winner Emily Jefferies, Dave

Bassett and John Hudson from the PFA.


Report byPaul Kearns, Office Manager

In the last few months the main focus of theoffice staff has been the organisation of thePrize Giving Ceremony of our Anti RacistSchools Competition at the new WembleyStadium. The organisation of the event waslabour intensive and has dominated ourworkloads recently. We managed to secureadditional help in the form of Laura Fleck ournew temporary Administration Support Worker.In her short time with us, Laura has made ahuge difference to the capacity of theorganisation and her contribution was crucial tothe success of the Wembley event. Over 200people attended the event, including patrons,councils, schools and virtually all major sponsorswere represented.

Since the last newsletter we have organised arecord number of events and it has beenfantastic to be able to expand the campaignand work with clubs like Tranmere Rovers,Yeovil and Dagenham and Redbridge for thefirst time. We were given a wonderful welcomeby these clubs and look forward to developingour relationship further next season. I havealready had preliminary discussions with Barnetand Millwall about holding events in the firstfew weeks of the new season and I amconfident that we will manage to hold at least35 events this year.

The highlight of the season for me has to bethe Liverpool FC event at Anfield. Meeting AlanKennedy, the only British player to score thewinning goal in two European Cup Finals wasan honour. Witnessing the way an icon likeJohn Barnes can engage with youngsters ontheir level about the issues affecting their dailylives was an inspiration.

Pictured below some of the SRTRC team at Wembley.



With the end of the football season, most of theclub posters have now been distributed and inJune we will begin to contact clubs regardingposters for Season 2007-2008. In April, weprinted the new England poster, which has been

very well received at recent events, and we areconsidering putting the poster into massproduction for the Euro 2008 qualifyingcampaign.

For the next few weeks, we will focus oninternal issues, I hope we will complete theprocess of incorporating from a Charity to aCharitable Company with limited guarantee. Weare also seeking to move Offices and hopefullyby the time of the next newsletter we will besettled in our new office space.

Finally, I would like to say a big thank you to allstaff and volunteers who helped to make theWembley event an outstanding success,particularly Gav and Laura who put in countlesshours to ensure that the day was extra specialfor the young prizewinners.

Pictured above Wembley Stadium Prize Giving Event features left to

right: Warren Barton, Charlie Walsh from St Georges University, Prize

Winner Holly Kershaw, Lee Harrison from Barnet FC, and Lucy

Faulkner and Simon Johnson from the FA.

Pictured below Young people with our popular club posters 2006-07

season at our Crystal Palace FC event.



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a big thank you to Laura our

newest member of the team

who helped to make the

Wembley event an

outstanding success, Laura

put in countless hours to

ensure that the day was

extra special for the

young prizewinners.

We are looking for another ex-professional footballer withcoaching qualifications to join ourNorth East Community EducationTeam on a sessional basis.

The job would involve coachingyoung people to enhance andcomplement our anti-racisteducational workshops, You mayalso be asked to contribute toevents and answer questions onracism from young people,therefore a commitment tofighting racism is required.

Please send your CV to ShowRacism the Red Card, PO Box 141, Whitley Bay, NE26 3YH.

Or contact Ged Grebby formore information. Phone 0191 291 0160

Job Vacancy

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Show Racism the Red Card - Amazon S3...newsletter june 07 1 Newsletter June 2007 Issue 2 Welcome to the second newsletter of Show Racism the Red Card in the UK for 2007. The 2006/7