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SARAH GREEN TELLS US ABOUT THE SPORTS TRUST AND HER ROLE AS SHEPWAY SCHOOL GAMES ORGANISER. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is Kevin Sports Daily here on Radio Folkston bringing
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Speaker 1: you the Folkstone and High Sports Show. On today's show,
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Speaker 1: we have local football, a wheelchair basketball, Folkston Netball League, Cricket,
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Speaker 1: Saints basketball, and we've got news of Saturday's big sports
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Speaker 1: show including the London Marathon special. And my special guest
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Speaker 1: today is Sarah Green from the Sports Trust who is
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Speaker 1: also the Shepwey School Sports Liaison Officer and she'll be
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Speaker 1: telling us all about the Trust and exactly what she
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Speaker 1: does in the schools of Shepwey. So I found a
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Speaker 1: couple of school related tracks in the playlist today that
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Speaker 1: we're going to start with this one. When was the
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Speaker 1: last time you heard this one? Paul Simon, Me and
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Speaker 1: Julio down by the schoolyard. Mama Pajol will roll out
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Speaker 1: of it and she ran through the Goldish When the
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Speaker 1: Papa found out, you began a shout, you started the investigation.
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Speaker 1: That's me and Julio down by the school yard nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventy two. Word Okay, So we're gonna do a bit
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Speaker 1: about schools today. So we have got another school track
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Speaker 1: lined up. There's only one I can find in the playlist,
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Speaker 1: and you know it straight away. So I'm joining the
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Speaker 1: studio now by Sarah Green. Hello Sarah, how are you?
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Speaker 2: Hi? Kevin? And well, thank you.
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Speaker 1: Excellent, good lovely to see you again. Now you've been
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Speaker 1: a guest to the show several times before, so please
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Speaker 1: remind myself and our listeners who you work for and
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Speaker 1: just what your role is with the schools.
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Speaker 2: Okay. So my role at the Sports Trust is the
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Speaker 2: schools Manager, which I do for one day a week.
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Speaker 2: I'm also the school games organized for Folkston, which I
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Speaker 2: do three days a week, and I'm the strategically for
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Speaker 2: the buck Is Girls Football Partnership, which is another day
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Speaker 2: a week. I'm glad I got through all those titles.
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Speaker 1: You got lots of hats to put on every day.
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Speaker 1: What job am I doing today? Okay? So you are
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Speaker 1: currently are you? First of all, it used to be
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Speaker 1: the ship By Sports Trust and now it's just the
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Speaker 1: Sports Trust. Is it the same people, same objectives?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, same same objectives, Our mission and vision of very
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Speaker 2: they're the same. So we want to build a lifelong
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Speaker 2: love of sport and dismantle barriers for anyone who can't
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Speaker 2: access it for whatever reason. Yeah, mission is still the same.
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Speaker 1: Okay. So to be honest, I think the Sports Trust
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Speaker 1: has been a little bit quiet lately on social media.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps it just hasn't popped up on my pace, but
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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about the background, what they
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Speaker 1: do and what goes on down there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's probably been a little bit quiet recently
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Speaker 2: because our main marketing ladies actually maternity leaves. So congratulations
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Speaker 2: Rossie if you're listening. We yet we still run all
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Speaker 2: our programs as we have before. So we obviously have
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Speaker 2: our venues with f fifty one and three Hill Sports
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Speaker 2: Park and the c Sports Center. We have a very
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Speaker 2: successful schools program which the competitions are running really well.
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Speaker 2: We've provided opportunities for nearly fifteen fifteen hundred participants this year.
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Speaker 2: Already we have lots of lots of far schools joining
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Speaker 2: in all those opportunities. So yeah, lots lots going.
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Speaker 1: On, excellent. I must say that. I'm going to talk
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Speaker 1: about it later on in the show. But the other Saturday,
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Speaker 1: I went down to the Three Hills and I just
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Speaker 1: went down initially to watch the Folks and Netball League
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Speaker 1: Easter tournament. But man, the car parked in Morrisons. Don't
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Speaker 1: tell Morrison's but that's what I do. A park in
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Speaker 1: Morrison's that go through defense. So the car park was
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Speaker 1: jammed and when I got in there, there was hockey
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Speaker 1: going on there. I walked past the cricket, there was
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Speaker 1: the basketball, sorry, the netball, there was the paddle tennis,
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Speaker 1: and then I was chatting to Mark from the Saints.
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Speaker 1: It was it was it was so nice to see.
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Speaker 1: It really was, you know, it was just like duel
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Speaker 1: in the crown of folks and when it comes to sport,
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Speaker 1: I must admit, especially after we've lost the sports center,
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Speaker 1: it was it was just thriving, all ages, really enjoying themselves,
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Speaker 1: which is kind of what the Sports Trust his mission
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Speaker 1: statement is, isn't it to get sport out there for
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Speaker 1: everybody and everybody and all ages. So I got down
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Speaker 1: here a list of activities that they do. I mean,
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Speaker 1: is there any that you want to highlight perhaps that
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Speaker 1: need a little bit of a push. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So, first of all, we can promote our Shred Club
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Speaker 2: f fifty one. So we partner with many of the
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Speaker 2: schools in the district and when they spend a certain
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Speaker 2: amount or commit a certain amount with us, we give
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Speaker 2: them shred Club membership for all of their peopils.
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Speaker 1: What club is that, It's called.
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Speaker 2: Shred Club and yeah, it equates to accessing the skatepark
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Speaker 2: for one pound a month for twelve months. So the
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Speaker 2: access into the park is in that it's within restricted
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Speaker 2: sessions so that we know obviously how many participants we
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Speaker 2: have coming. But it's a really good way of getting
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Speaker 2: into the park at a low cost. You bring your
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Speaker 2: helmets and things additional or you can hire them there.
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Speaker 2: But it's a really great way to say access to
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Speaker 2: the park. Another one is our holiday camp. So our
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Speaker 2: holiday and food camps funded by the government have gone
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Speaker 2: really successful. We run centers at three Hill Sports Park,
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Speaker 2: at the Marsh Marsh Academy Center and also at fifty
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Speaker 2: one and they're not just sports activities. We also do
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Speaker 2: enrichment such as craft or smoothie bikes as well as
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Speaker 2: sometimes at the Marsh we can use these a cinema
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Speaker 2: down there, which is really awesome. They all get a
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Speaker 2: hot meal as well.
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Speaker 1: Camps only recently found out they've actually got a cinema
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Speaker 1: down there. Yeah, with somebody I know who lives down
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Speaker 1: that way and they said, oh, we went to the
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Speaker 1: pictures the other day. Are ware to go Ashford Dover.
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Speaker 1: We went to the Marsh Academy. What years Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: so I mean things like like pickleball and things like that.
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Speaker 1: Are they still going in over fifties clubs?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Active fifties is going strong. They have several sessions
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Speaker 2: going on a week from circuits down to zomba, pickleball,
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Speaker 2: walk in football, all different activities. And we also have
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Speaker 2: the Little Ones little athletes on a Wednesday, which is
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Speaker 2: a free program which are able to fund so they
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Speaker 2: can come down and make the most of the center
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Speaker 2: and have a sort of social time in the cafe
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Speaker 2: afterwards as well.
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Speaker 1: Little athletes. How little are they do you know?
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Speaker 2: Oh they're very little, as little as they come Kevin, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right. Oh that's great fun, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: I mean seeing those the little kids. It's like I
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Speaker 1: try and make a bee line for the Redna Park
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Speaker 1: Junior Park round and the maximum age is fourteen, but
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Speaker 1: you get a lot of youngsters there and they run
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Speaker 1: with their parents, you know, and some of them go
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Speaker 1: I hate running, daddy, you know, but they love it.
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Speaker 1: They get up and they go round.
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Speaker 2: It's very popular.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And there was one last last Sunday or
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Speaker 1: Sunday before. I think it was this little boy, he
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Speaker 1: must have been about five. He got about ten yards,
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Speaker 1: he stopped, he felt his arms, his bottom lip come out,
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Speaker 1: and that was it. His mum couldn't move him. But
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Speaker 1: with a little joel in and that he did the
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Speaker 1: two laps and he had a great time.
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Speaker 2: I remember carrying my daughter around the Junior Park run
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Speaker 2: in the previous years, a little while ago now. But yeah, yep, skipping, jumping, rolling, carrying,
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Speaker 2: anything to get around, anything to get him round.
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Speaker 1: So what else have we got I've got here. Let's see,
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Speaker 1: we've done a paddle Turennis that's a new one. Yeah?
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Speaker 1: That that seems to be catching on, doesn't it. I
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Speaker 1: went down there the other week and they had a
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Speaker 1: tournament on and that was on Saturday, and I can't
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Speaker 1: remember the chap's name, but he said, we think we've
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Speaker 1: made a bit of a mix up, really, so we've
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Speaker 1: got a tournament for the ladies tomorrow. Said, but it's
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Speaker 1: Mother's Day and we don't expect it, yea. So we said,
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Speaker 1: next time we book a tournament, we're going to check
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Speaker 1: the date thoroughly. So anything else going down there.
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Speaker 2: So we have a new event coming up with the
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Speaker 2: Sports Trust. We try to be inclusive as possible with
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Speaker 2: our venues and the way we approach sport and physical activity.
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Speaker 2: We're going to be running something called a Powerhouse Games,
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Speaker 2: which is something supported by an organization called Power to Inspire,
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Speaker 2: and we're going to be running it at Three Hills
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Speaker 2: on the fifteenth of May. It's effectively an inclusive sports festival.
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Speaker 2: We bring different demographics of people such as college students,
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Speaker 2: secondary school students, students who attend special school altogether, and
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Speaker 2: we mix them up into teams and they take part
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Speaker 2: in inclusive sports, so things like gold ball, things like
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Speaker 2: wheelchair basketball, sitting netball, and the idea is that these
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Speaker 2: sports are either adapted or inclusive formats which everybody can do.
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Speaker 2: And the hope is that from that event, the knowledge
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Speaker 2: and skill of knowing those sports will kind of breed
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Speaker 2: out into the community and more people will be able
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Speaker 2: to be active through those We are hoping for some
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Speaker 2: support locally. We have got some support already financially from
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Speaker 2: the Folks and Lines, which has been gratefully received, but
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Speaker 2: if there are any sort of corporate organizations that would
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Speaker 2: like to kind of support us through sponsorship or even
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Speaker 2: just coming along on the day or using their volunteer
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Speaker 2: day for staff to come along and learn about these
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Speaker 2: inclusive sports. Do a bit of leadership, get involved. We
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Speaker 2: really appreciate that too.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's excellent, and I'll tell you what this is
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Speaker 1: why it's been a bit under the radar. I think
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Speaker 1: with the with the Sports Trust that the word isn't
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Speaker 1: getting out there. So Rossie, hurry up when every baby
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Speaker 1: and then come back to work. Okay, anything else on
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Speaker 1: the Sports Trust before we switch we place on and
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Speaker 1: then go onto the schools. Have we covered everything?
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Speaker 2: So schools for the Sports Trust, we're busy with our
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Speaker 2: events and we're also working on our new schools off
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Speaker 2: of froll September, So watch that space for that one.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So we got the second school song in
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Speaker 1: the playlist. Now this one, Well it's a bit a
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Speaker 1: bit late in the day for this one, but school's out,
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Speaker 1: but really it says only just starting. So have a
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Speaker 1: little listen. When did you hear this the last time?
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Speaker 1: Alice Cooper al Let's keeper? Of course you remember that
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Speaker 1: one that was so famous, wasn't it? And it's just
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Speaker 1: the the test of time every time the schools break up.
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Speaker 1: That song comes out right, So we're back in the
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Speaker 1: studio with Sarah. Sarah, so this is part to get
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Speaker 1: your other hat on and we are going to talk
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Speaker 1: now about what you do in the schools of shipway
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Speaker 1: tell us. So first of all, I've probably got your
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Speaker 1: job title wrong, so tell us what your correct job title.
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Speaker 2: Is FOLCUS in school games organizer.
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Speaker 1: Right, and what do you do for that?
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Speaker 2: So for that we have a few main targets. So
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Speaker 2: it's a government funded role. There's four hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: of us over the country. We work with the Youth
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Speaker 2: Sports Trusts and our kind of mission vision is to
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Speaker 2: make sure that everybody is involved in school sport and
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Speaker 2: physical activity and that this whole school benefits from the
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Speaker 2: other sort of soft skills that sport can bring. So
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Speaker 2: in terms of making sure that everyone is aware of
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Speaker 2: the Active sixty agenda that children between five and eighteen
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Speaker 2: should have an average of sixty minutes of physical activity
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Speaker 2: each day, we want to make sure that all sport
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Speaker 2: and physical activity that goes on in schools is inclusive,
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Speaker 2: that it has a positive impact on the children. They
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Speaker 2: want to do it again and grow into active, motivated adults.
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Speaker 1: So do you find that in your visits to schools
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Speaker 1: because there's big schools, there's little schools. You have to
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Speaker 1: adjust the the type of advice you give to the
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Speaker 1: teachers to suit the schools because some of them got
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Speaker 1: massive players. Yeah we've just got a little playground. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Of course, the huge disparacy between the school grounds. So
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Speaker 2: we do have a strategic roll in that we can
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Speaker 2: signposts a different advice and different training and within those
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Speaker 2: trainings and advice there's different resources they can use depending
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Speaker 2: on how much ground they have. Also, we do host
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Speaker 2: a number of events at the Three Hills Sports Park
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Speaker 2: and at the Marsh Academy so that they can come
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Speaker 2: outside their school and experience larger facilities. I know the
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Speaker 2: children who have very small playgrounds when they enter the
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Speaker 2: huge sports hall, they can be quite overwhelmed, but most
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Speaker 2: of them absolutely love it and they have a great time.
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Speaker 1: How far out does the Shepway schools border go to
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Speaker 1: before you get into Sussex. Oh?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we have forty eight schools with the Folkston
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Speaker 2: Hive District, so that goes right from kind of towards
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Speaker 2: Canterbury's Scouting Steading Minis all the way down to Folks
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Speaker 2: and out to Hive and then out as far as
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Speaker 2: Lydd Brooklyn and Brensit.
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Speaker 1: Brooklyn, Brens It. That's right, Yeah, I remember those turning
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Speaker 1: up at the district games. Yeah. And the little schools yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean do you have to try and get around
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Speaker 1: to all those schools.
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Speaker 2: So I don't necessarily go into all the schools. What
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Speaker 2: I am tasked with doing is is kind of being
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Speaker 2: an ambassador for the active sixty minutes and the inclusive
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Speaker 2: sport changes. So when I can get them together is
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Speaker 2: a great time. I also want to influence their provision.
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Speaker 2: So if I can do something, for example with young
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Speaker 2: carers or with children with additional needs, I hope that
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Speaker 2: they can then replicate that back with it in their school,
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Speaker 2: or I can inspire them to try a new sport
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Speaker 2: or bring in role models. So recently something I did
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Speaker 2: it It was quite a small project, but it had
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Speaker 2: a big impact. I have a friend called Emma Brown
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Speaker 2: and she is She pays for England and gb Deaf
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Speaker 2: foot Sour football, so she goes around the world competing
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Speaker 2: in the Deaf Olympics World Championships. But having had a
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Speaker 2: hearing impairment obviously she's had to get through a lot
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Speaker 2: of barriers. And we recently went to Castle Hill Primary
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Speaker 2: School in Folkstone where they actually have a special resource
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Speaker 2: provision for children with hearing impairments and she met with
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Speaker 2: around twelve of them and the impact was awesome because
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Speaker 2: she could share her story and really inspire them on
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Speaker 2: a real down to earth ground level and it was yeah,
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Speaker 2: it just the kind of impact has been been great
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Speaker 2: on those children, right.
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Speaker 1: And it's interesting you say that because the disability football
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Speaker 1: club folks, and I've got to know over ten years now,
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Speaker 1: they play a team called Willing Death and when when
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Speaker 1: they're out on the park, they can only talk with
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Speaker 1: sign language and obviously can't hear the whistle when the
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Speaker 1: referee flows, so the referee has to have a flag,
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Speaker 1: holds a flag up if there's a fowl or anything.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So anyway, one of the folks in Victor disability lads,
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Speaker 1: he has a hearing problem and he knows the sign language.
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Speaker 1: So what he does at halftime when they're all having
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Speaker 1: a halftime talk and they're all using them and the
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Speaker 1: mergers telling them what to do for the second half
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Speaker 1: in the sign language, he kind of has a watch
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Speaker 1: and he knows very good.
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Speaker 2: I do. I do love any any way that you
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Speaker 2: can break a barrier to get somebody to enjoy sport
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Speaker 2: and then they can be involved and become a leader,
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Speaker 2: and be passionate and be excited in most ways to
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Speaker 2: be physically active. I just absolutely love it. And my
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Speaker 2: children don't have hearing disability, but they love to learn
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Speaker 2: a bit of sign language and Emma really inspires them.
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Speaker 2: My daughter can do the alphabet really quickly, and and
17:15
Speaker 2: you know what it, visual learning is is brilliant for
17:18
Speaker 2: lots of children. And there are a lot of things
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Speaker 2: that you might do in an inclusive training session that
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Speaker 2: can be beneficial to all children.
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Speaker 1: And it's adults as well, because I do a lot
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Speaker 1: of If you like comparing at races, we've got PA
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Speaker 1: system talk to people. Every race has to have a
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Speaker 1: race briefing before they go off, and is some of
17:39
Speaker 1: the races, including one of the park rounds that folks them.
17:44
Speaker 1: There is one or two people that have gone up
17:47
Speaker 1: and whilst I'm talking about which you know the water
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Speaker 1: stations and you know the traffic, and they are doing
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Speaker 1: the sign people out that's a yeah, so's we are
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Speaker 1: becoming more inclusive these days. Aren't we. And we're looking
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Speaker 1: after people that are you know, years ago, were if
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Speaker 1: you like, underprivileged and we're always left out. So it's
18:06
Speaker 1: great to include everybody. So anything else then you've got
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Speaker 1: some footballers, haven't you.
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Speaker 2: That's right, So again kind of working with the school games.
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Speaker 2: Girls again are historically not been given so many opportunities
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Speaker 2: in sport as boys, so they're a big target group
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Speaker 2: for us as well. I think you'll see with a
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Speaker 2: lot of sports at the moment there's a big push
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Speaker 2: for girls to get involved and take up opportunities to
18:32
Speaker 2: be active. And yeah, this comes in the form of
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Speaker 2: football for US. We promote programs from the FA and
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Speaker 2: England Football. We share training with schools to mate again
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Speaker 2: make sure their lessons are are inclusive, as well as
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Speaker 2: opening up different clubs to girls and thinking about maybe,
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Speaker 2: for example, on the playground, could there be one day
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Speaker 2: of the week where the girls take over the playground
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Speaker 2: because for a lot of girls, it's been proven that
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Speaker 2: they would rather spend that time all that activity in
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Speaker 2: a girl's only environment because sometimes if you're playing with
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Speaker 2: somebody else, typically the boys who are more confident and
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Speaker 2: you know, stronger tackles they're faster, they're stronger. It can
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Speaker 2: be quite intimidating for the girls. So those girls only
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Speaker 2: spaces for sport are really important. And say, the girls
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Speaker 2: partnership is one of the ways we're trying to support.
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Speaker 1: That something you never think about it. You think that
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Speaker 1: just all the kids go out and have a good
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Speaker 1: run around, but you don't think that the girls might
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Speaker 1: be intimidated by the boys. We're there even intentionally meaning
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Speaker 1: to completely. Yeah, so the communication with the parents, you
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Speaker 1: have to go. You must spend a lot of time
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Speaker 1: right into schools and then hoping that they will forward
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Speaker 1: the information onto the parents. Is that right?
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Speaker 2: Most of it's done in school, but obviously wherever the
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Speaker 2: inclusive messages can get out, we're absolutely for it. And
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Speaker 2: schools do need support from parents to take children out
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Speaker 2: to events and permissions and things.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, so times running away with us. So Sarah,
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Speaker 1: before we go, is there anything else either about the
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Speaker 1: Sports Trust or your schools activities that we've missed.
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Speaker 2: There's a whole army out there of girls football leaders
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Speaker 2: from all over Kent. They came into their training with
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Speaker 2: us on the go Lead program. Recently we trained over
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Speaker 2: We've trained around one hundred girls from secondary schools to
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Speaker 2: come and referee, coach and promote the women and girls games.
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Speaker 2: So look out for them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's something girls well. I suppose the circles
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Speaker 1: that we move in perhaps sometimes outside of the schools,
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Speaker 1: we don't really hear about it. I mean some of
20:38
Speaker 1: this stuff is new to me. But it's great news
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Speaker 1: as well, the fact that you're targeting a young audience
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Speaker 1: and if you like, getting them young, getting their interests young,
20:46
Speaker 1: and you're doing a fantastic job. So right, so we
20:50
Speaker 1: need some just some contact information. I'm hoping that people
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Speaker 1: out there have been listening and thinking well and I
20:56
Speaker 1: need to find out a bit more about this.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, we got absolutely So you can contact me
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Speaker 2: directly on email, sgo at the Sports Trust dot org,
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Speaker 2: or you can look on the Sports Trust or the
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Speaker 2: folks in school game Socials on Facebook, Instagram and X Well.
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Speaker 1: Sarah, thank you so much. It's been a while since
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Speaker 1: you've come in and you've obviously been busy. You're doing
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Speaker 1: a great job out there in the community and I
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Speaker 1: think you demand you don't demand much, You just want
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Speaker 1: the respect and you want to get the word of
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Speaker 1: sport out there just suit everybody at a young age.
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Speaker 1: That's about right, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, Thanks Kevin.
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Speaker 1: Okay, thanks Sarah. Right, okay, So we've got a track
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Speaker 1: now this is from a one direction. I'm got fire
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Speaker 1: for one direction ten years ago, drag me down. That
21:52
Speaker 1: was cool, right. So some football going to do some
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Speaker 1: local football. So last week being Easter weekend, meant a
21:59
Speaker 1: double of local football. So let's start with folks and
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Speaker 1: in Victor. On Good Friday, they traveled away to biller
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Speaker 1: Ricky Town who are top of the table on goal difference.
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Speaker 1: In fact, there are three teams of just one game
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Speaker 1: left and they're all on equal points. That's biller Ricky,
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Speaker 1: Horshammer Dartford, so that's going to be a really dramatic finale.
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Speaker 1: In Victor played well against biller Ricky but unfortunately lost
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Speaker 1: to Neil On Easter Monday at home for the last
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Speaker 1: ever game on the grass pitch as they rip it
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Speaker 1: up and laid down the three G pitch, they beat
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Speaker 1: Lewis two to one and on this Saturday, the final
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Speaker 1: game of the season is away against Cray Valley, who
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Speaker 1: will guarantee the playoff place as they are in fourth position,
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Speaker 1: so not a great deal to play for really, But
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Speaker 1: it has been a long, funny old season. But I'm
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Speaker 1: sure next season in Victor will be totally different Hive Town.
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Speaker 1: On Good Friday, Hi we're beaten four nill at home
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Speaker 1: against Ramsgate who were confirmed as champions in front of
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Speaker 1: one two hundred and twenty six spectators. Then on Monday
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Speaker 1: it was an eight goal thriller against Ashvid United. Unfortunately
23:07
Speaker 1: I I have lost by five goals to three. On Saturday,
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Speaker 1: their last game is at home to Beckenham Or in
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Speaker 1: sixth place, so they haven't got any chance of the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: so once again not much to play for there now.
23:19
Speaker 1: This will be a shame for HIE as they say
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Speaker 1: goodbye to the Isthmian Southeast League as they're relegated and
23:25
Speaker 1: hello to the Southern Counties East Football League locally known
23:29
Speaker 1: as the Skeffold League. So I really do hope they
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Speaker 1: bounced straight back now. Last Saturday in the Kent County
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Speaker 1: Premier League, New Romney beat fleet Down United two to one,
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Speaker 1: but Hawkins lost three to two to Borden Village. On
23:42
Speaker 1: Easter Monday, Hawkins suffered another defeat, losing four to one
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Speaker 1: to metro Gas. Our New Romney suffered an uncharacteristic defeat.
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Speaker 1: Actually they lost one nil to Guru Nanak, but they
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Speaker 1: stayed seven points clear at the top of the table.
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Speaker 1: The Saturday Hawkins are at home to Snodland Town and
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Speaker 1: Low Romney are away to Peckham Town. And finally a
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Speaker 1: bit of a footy, a local footy trivia if you like.
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Speaker 1: On Easter Monday it was a thanet derby. Ramsgate were
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Speaker 1: at home to Margate. Now bearing in mind that Ramsgate
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Speaker 1: had already Wonder League, but Margate were trying to make
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Speaker 1: sure that they got a playoff place. In front of
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Speaker 1: three thousand, three hundred fans. Margate beat Ramsgate for one. Now,
24:25
Speaker 1: what a match that must have been, and what an atmosphere.
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Speaker 1: You know, they probably have got cheered on the pitch,
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Speaker 1: Ramsgate because they'd already won the trophy, probably relaxing a
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Speaker 1: little bit. But then they come up against Margate who
24:38
Speaker 1: are really going for it, just want to make sure
24:40
Speaker 1: of that playoff place. But what a game for one
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Speaker 1: in front of I'll say it again, three thousand, three
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Speaker 1: hundred fans. Okay, time for us to track now from
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Speaker 1: the spin doctor. And this is called two Princes. It's
25:05
Speaker 1: beIN doctors, two Princes. That's a good old punchy track
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Speaker 1: in it. I like that one. Okay, wheelchair basketball time. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Folks and Arrows have just got one league game
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Speaker 1: left on Saturday, when they travel to Chichester to play
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Speaker 1: the Southern Sharks. Now the Arrows remain unbeaten. They've played eleven,
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Speaker 1: they've won eleven. Can they go through the whole season unbeaten? Now?
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Speaker 1: Saturday will be a tough one as the Sharks are
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Speaker 1: currently second place, just two points behind. But and this
25:39
Speaker 1: is a big butt. With the scoring system that means
25:42
Speaker 1: you get two points for a win and one point
25:44
Speaker 1: even if the Arrows lose, the Sharks cannot catch them.
25:48
Speaker 1: So I'm pleased to announce that the Folks and Arrows
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Speaker 1: are champions of the National League Divisions three South, and
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Speaker 1: all the work that Becky and Ben Potter put in
25:58
Speaker 1: to that team rewarded by a lifting a trophy and
26:03
Speaker 1: well done to all the team members. Now, however, the
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Speaker 1: season doesn't end there, so let me explain. Division three
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Speaker 1: consists of three different regions. We've got the North, the Central,
26:13
Speaker 1: and the South. So now the Arrows enter a playoff
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Speaker 1: system to find out who is the best Division three
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Speaker 1: team in the country. Now this will include teams as
26:22
Speaker 1: far away as Scotland, Nottingham, Leicester and Swansea to name
26:26
Speaker 1: but a few. So exciting a few weeks ahead really,
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Speaker 1: and as I said earlier, big thanks to Ben and
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Speaker 1: Becky Potter for updating me and all the information. Well
26:35
Speaker 1: done to the Arrows for winning the league. So this
26:37
Speaker 1: song is that it's dedicated to everyone involved with the Arrows.
26:41
Speaker 1: There's only one a logical choice, to be honest, So
26:44
Speaker 1: let's have a little listen to Queen and we are
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Speaker 1: the champions. Time time I've done my sentence. There you go.
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Speaker 1: You always think he's going to say of the world
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Speaker 1: at the end. He doesn't anyway. That's for Folks and
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Speaker 1: arrow as well. Down to you for winning the league
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Speaker 1: and good luck on Saturday when hopefully you'll go unbeaten
27:24
Speaker 1: throughout the whole season. Now, last Saturday I popped down
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Speaker 1: to the Three Hills to watch the folks in the Netball
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Speaker 1: League Easter Tournament and caught up with last week's guest
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Speaker 1: of the show, Daniel black Well. It was back to
27:35
Speaker 1: back games. Are using both courts to the maximum now
27:38
Speaker 1: due to the number of teams. The games were fast
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Speaker 1: and furious, last in just five minutes each way. The
27:44
Speaker 1: weather was kind to the players and it was good
27:46
Speaker 1: to see the men, yes, the men, the men. They
27:48
Speaker 1: were allowed three in a team. The men got stuck
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Speaker 1: in and seemed to be really enjoying themselves. The tournament
27:54
Speaker 1: raised nearly two hundred pounds, which went towards the Sports Trust.
27:57
Speaker 1: And as I was saying to Sarah Green, our guests
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Speaker 1: just now, what a lovely jester that is by the
28:04
Speaker 1: folks to netball league. And so that was a really
28:07
Speaker 1: good day for netball. They had thoroughly, really enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: You could see that now. Whilst of the Three Hills,
28:12
Speaker 1: which was packed, I managed to watch some of the hockey.
28:16
Speaker 1: There was a little hockey tournament going on. There was
28:18
Speaker 1: paddle tennis. I watched and chatted with Mark Hinton from
28:23
Speaker 1: the Saints basketball team. He told me the Saints who
28:26
Speaker 1: completed trips, they just come back from Calais where they
28:30
Speaker 1: were runners up in an under thirteen's team. They've got
28:32
Speaker 1: another tournament, I think he said it was wim Row
28:35
Speaker 1: and they've got one in Germany. And now the Saints
28:38
Speaker 1: must be the fastest growing sport in Folks and I
28:41
Speaker 1: can remember in recent years, and they are really really
28:45
Speaker 1: if you like our grind themselves, they need their own
28:48
Speaker 1: they would love their own venue. They currently have to
28:51
Speaker 1: rent out venues at the Three Hills and sometimes they
28:56
Speaker 1: had a marsh academy, so good luck in that search
28:59
Speaker 1: for your staff and alone a venue. Then on the
29:02
Speaker 1: way home, I watched a bit of a Folkston cricket
29:05
Speaker 1: Folks do on eleven they beat a broad Stairs team
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Speaker 1: by seven wickets. So all in all it was a
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Speaker 1: massive day of sport down at the Three Hills and
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what it was so nice to see it.
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Speaker 1: The place was packed right now. This is a song
29:19
Speaker 1: by Lamar from two thousand and four. If there's any justice,
29:35
Speaker 1: Lamar there from two thousand and four, If there's any justice.
29:41
Speaker 1: Right So we're still packing in the local sport, and
29:43
Speaker 1: I must tell you about this. This Saturday is a
29:46
Speaker 1: mammoth day of three hours of sport of music here
29:49
Speaker 1: on Radio Folkston. The first hour I'll be joining Adydwks
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Speaker 1: between ten and eleven where a guest will be Ellis Stewart.
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Speaker 1: Now Elis was a guest last year on the show
30:00
Speaker 1: before she ran her first ever London Marathon, the first
30:03
Speaker 1: ever marathon. In fact, she recently run the London Landmarks Half,
30:07
Speaker 1: so she'll be telling us about that, but she's also
30:09
Speaker 1: on her way to Wembley. Yes, I mean, how good
30:13
Speaker 1: is that? Elisi's studying physiotherapy at a Canterbury university and
30:17
Speaker 1: as a placement position at Wisterablle Town FC. And on Sunday,
30:22
Speaker 1: the eleventh of May, she will be part of the
30:25
Speaker 1: backroom team who will be in the FA VARs final
30:28
Speaker 1: against AFC Whiteleaf from Surrey. So what an experience for
30:32
Speaker 1: that age. I saw her the other day and she
30:35
Speaker 1: was so excited about it. Well, then between eleven and
30:38
Speaker 1: one pm it's a two hour London Marathon special showcase
30:41
Speaker 1: in Local Athletes. I've got three interviews to play out
30:45
Speaker 1: from local runners who tick the following boxes. They've never
30:48
Speaker 1: run a marathon before, they're running London and they are
30:51
Speaker 1: raising money for a charity. The three athletes concerned are
30:56
Speaker 1: Carly Morgan running for Asthma and Lung UK. Then call
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Speaker 1: he is running for the Royal British Legion and Ellie
31:02
Speaker 1: Curran is running for Young Lives Versus Cancer. So please
31:06
Speaker 1: tune in and listen to their stories. You know, after
31:08
Speaker 1: meeting these three really inspirational people, I'm really pleased that
31:12
Speaker 1: I can spread the word. And if you do miss
31:15
Speaker 1: the stories, because a lot of them will be themselves
31:17
Speaker 1: up at the London Marathon, don't worry. I will podcast
31:20
Speaker 1: the interviews so for everyone to share. And you just
31:26
Speaker 1: there are so many brave people out there. Anyway. We
31:28
Speaker 1: have a long old chat about that on Saturday morning.
31:31
Speaker 1: But I've also been joined in the studio by three
31:34
Speaker 1: very experienced marathoners. All I wanted to do was get
31:37
Speaker 1: kind of two sides of the coin, you know, And
31:40
Speaker 1: so I'm going to be joined by a husband and
31:41
Speaker 1: wife team, Clive and Pam Allen and Marie Brazier, and
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Speaker 1: I hope to squeeze in a roll of honor of
31:48
Speaker 1: local athletes who are run in London or Manchester Marathon,
31:51
Speaker 1: which is also on Sunday. Okay music, now we cram
31:55
Speaker 1: another song in. This is Michael Jackson Black or White
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Speaker 1: Schoolboy era at Sophiellis Bexter and catch you on your
32:05
Speaker 1: key chain in the coffeesoom. So that was Sophielic ls
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Speaker 1: ab Extat. Sorry I got that round the wrong way there.
32:18
Speaker 1: So we're just going to fade Sophie out because I
32:21
Speaker 1: just just so much to pack in a bit of
32:23
Speaker 1: cricket news now, believe you or not. Now, I mentioned
32:26
Speaker 1: earlier Folks that were playing Broadstairs in a preseason friendly,
32:29
Speaker 1: so I need to see. I decided to see if
32:31
Speaker 1: any other clubs were started by visiting the informative play
32:35
Speaker 1: Cricket website. Now discovered that the Folks do and thirty
32:39
Speaker 1: eleven beat Hide Thirst eleven by five wickets. Hawk, can
32:43
Speaker 1: you play their first friendly on Saturday at home to
32:45
Speaker 1: the Folkston third eleven? I have welcome Oakfield Warriors who
32:49
Speaker 1: will travel down from Swanskam in North Kent. I have
32:52
Speaker 1: Green lost at Eland Valley by six wickets and then
32:55
Speaker 1: on Sunday the Sunday eleven are away to Saint Margaret's Cosmopolitan.
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Speaker 1: So what would be at home on Saturday to Betshanger,
33:03
Speaker 1: Colliery Welfare and Sipton Park are also at home where
33:07
Speaker 1: they take on a Folks then second eleven. So does
33:10
Speaker 1: this mean summer's on its way? Well, less hope. So
33:13
Speaker 1: I should be keeping a close eye on the play
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Speaker 1: Cricket website and bring your results and fixtures as I
33:18
Speaker 1: get them, and so well that's about it from me.
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Speaker 1: I've just got to say that on the Thursday show
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Speaker 1: is possibly I'll be gone for three or four weeks.
33:30
Speaker 1: I'll be in Cyprus a Sunday myself, I hope, but
33:33
Speaker 1: I'll be back on Saturday, joining eighty DWKS between ten
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Speaker 1: and eleven, and then i'll be bringing you the two
33:38
Speaker 1: hour London Marathon show, which includes the interviews as I've
33:41
Speaker 1: told you about and guests coming in. So what could
33:44
Speaker 1: possibly go wrong? Okay, We're going to finish out off
33:47
Speaker 1: with Michael Jackson and we won't get him all in
33:49
Speaker 1: because I've been chatting too much. So I'll see you
33:52
Speaker 1: on Saturday. But no