The Crawley Town Community Foundation in November

Liam Joyce delivering at the Bewbush Academy

The Foundation has seen a busy month in November with its relaunch of its Broadfield Extra Time Hubs a particular highlight at the club’s stadium.

The Foundation Academy team’s have seen great results with the ‘A’ team sitting in second place in the National Football Youth League South Championship without losing a game; the ‘B’ team are also placed second in their division with three wins from their last three.

Striker Lewis Gould has been a part of that impressive ‘A’ team start and had been rewarded with a trial for the League’s ‘All-Star’ South team. The Foundation are delighted to announce that Lewis secured his place in the squad and will take on a team from the division’s Northern sides this afternoon at England’s St Georges Park.

Closer to home, the Foundation hosted the region’s Utility Girls Cup, a six-a-side tournament for under-13 school teams that has over 20,000 boys and girls (together with the ‘Utilita Kids’ Cup’) playing in the format. Regional winners get the chance to represent Crawley Town in a the finals hosted at Wembley Stadium before major Football League finals.

The North Sussex District round was held at Hazelwick school in Three Bridges with Oriel High School winning the round with five wins, a draw, and a victory against Hazelwick in the final.

The Foundation has also been active during Anti-Bullying Week, a Kidscape charity initiative the aims to bring awareness to the issue. Crawley Town interim manager Lewis Young lead the charge with a message to support the week, wearing the charity’s signature odd socks in a video to supporters to say that Crawley Town is explicitly anti-bullying. Midfielder Jack Powell and striker Dom Telford both send video messages to the Foundation to spread the message during the week.

Premier League Primary Stars Coordinator has been in Crawley schools to deliver workshops and assemblies on the week and had this to say about his day at the Bewbush Academy:

‘We’re happy to be part of and to support this initiative from Kidscape's Reach Out campaign this month. It has been a great week having these conversations but also to see some of the creativity with posters made by students in one of the schools we delivered an assembly.’