The Membership’s charity, Metropolis within the Group (CITC), has named its Main Faculties Supervisor as this 12 months’s Group Captain, as a part of the Premier League’s ‘Extra Than A Recreation’ marketing campaign.
The ‘Extra Than A Recreation’ marketing campaign highlights how Premier League funding and membership neighborhood programme supply positively impacts the lives of tens of millions.
To rejoice the marketing campaign and its message, all membership charities had been requested to appoint a Group Captain who demonstrates a dedication to their membership and/or neighborhood.
CITC nominated Main Faculties, Lucy Gaskell-Milward, as its Group Captain as a part of the celebration.
Lucy joined Metropolis within the Group greater than seven years in the past as Main Faculties Supervisor, the place she has continued to indicate long-term dedication and dedication to CITC, extremely impacting the work inside Main Training throughout Better Manchester.
Lucy has labored tirelessly to make sure that her provision is of steady prime quality, attaining tangible and significant outcomes for younger individuals inside Better Manchester.
She has pushed her staff in such a optimistic and supportive method to make sure that her division empowers more healthy lives by way of soccer on a regular basis inside all associate major faculties, making certain that her provision meets present wants and priorities of the first training sector and of younger individuals inside native communities in Manchester.
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Lisa McKay, Head of Operations nominated Lucy for the award, saying: “With Lucy’s ardour, ambition, innovation and management CITC have seen their major college provision go from energy to energy.
“It’s now recognised as one of many main Main College PE companions creating optimistic change throughout Manchester working carefully with over 4,000 distinctive contributors annually and three,000 session hours delivered yearly.
“Lucy is a unbelievable function mannequin to all at CITC, particularly to the youthful feminine workers and contributors, as she persistently champions feminine empowerment, equality and inclusivity.
“The continuous growth of her work extends into the neighborhood creating an enduring legacy of making optimistic alternatives and experiences inside sport and PE, enhancing bodily well being and psychological well being and wellbeing and constructing confidence and shallowness inside younger individuals of Manchester.
“Lucy oozes with the eagerness and want to make a optimistic change in Manchester and provides younger individuals hope and aspirations for a brighter future.”
Lucy was shocked earlier within the week by Lisa and Membership legend Paul Dickov, who offered the award to her in Manchester Metropolis’s Studio 1.
Lucy’s achievement was additional celebrated throughout Manchester Metropolis’s recreation in opposition to Newcastle United the place she acquired the award once more at half-time.
Speaking about what this award means to her Lucy stated: “It’s superb, I’m actually overwhelmed, I wasn’t anticipating it but it surely’s very nice to be considered by the staff and on this manner.”
The Premier League’s ‘Extra Than A Recreation’ marketing campaign was launched on 12 February, and it’ll run till 26 February.Metropolis within the Group empowers more healthy lives with metropolis youth by way of soccer.