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LISTEN BACK AS PAUL CARNEY CHATS ABOUT THE SPORTS TRUST AND IMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT THE FOLKESTONE SPORTS CENTRE. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Sports for It Daily, bringing you the
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  Speaker 1: Folks and Hip Sports Show. On today's show, we have
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  Speaker 1: reports on local cricket, hockey and netball, a round up
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  Speaker 1: of park run venues around the country where our local
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  Speaker 1: park runners visited last weekend, a recap of yesterday's Shepway
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  Speaker 1: District School Sports Day, and if I get time, I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you about my birthday weekend as a tourist in London.
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  Speaker 1: And our special guest today is Paul Carney, chairman of
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  Speaker 1: the Sports Trust, who'll be telling us all about the
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  Speaker 1: Trust and the work they do. Plus he'd be bringing
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  Speaker 1: us up to date with what's going on at the
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  Speaker 1: Folks and Sports Center.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Last night I was, you know, do you get bored?
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  Speaker 1: You flip through the old teley, get the old remote,
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  Speaker 1: and I came across a film I hadn't seen in years,
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  Speaker 1: and so I settled down and watched the very first
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  Speaker 1: film of the Rookie series. And I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. It was like watching it for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: I knew the result of a fight, but all the
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  Speaker 1: bits in between that I'd forgotten about over the years
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  Speaker 1: just came flatting back and in other theme tune. I
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  Speaker 1: what a fantastic thing tune. So what better way to
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  Speaker 1: start a sports show than with a Rookie thing? Well,
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  Speaker 1: what a great track to start the show. As I said,
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  Speaker 1: I was watching the Rockie film, the first one. There
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  Speaker 1: are other ones. It did become a bit predictable, but
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  Speaker 1: I still love the series. But I don't think you
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  Speaker 1: can beat the first Rockie film when it came out,
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  Speaker 1: and what a sensation it made. Right, Okay, Now I'm
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  Speaker 1: joined today by Paul Karney from the Sports Trust. Hello Paul,
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  Speaker 1: how are.
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  Speaker 3: You hello, mister Ferret, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah good, Thanks very much, Yeah good, Thanks, Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the show. Now tell us what is your role at
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  Speaker 1: the Sports Trust.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm lucky enough to be the chair of the
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  Speaker 3: Sports Trust, okay, and I've been a trustee for thirteen
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  Speaker 3: or something years and chair for the last two.
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  Speaker 1: And a bit. Right, okay, So how do you become
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  Speaker 1: How did you get the spot in the chair then
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  Speaker 1: in the chair?
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  Speaker 3: I think I was the unlucky one who didn't step
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  Speaker 3: back when everybody else did. No, I've been on the
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  Speaker 3: Trust a long time. I was one of the original trustees.
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  Speaker 3: I'd previously been the vice chair for a number of years.
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  Speaker 3: So when Trevor Minter retired, I seem to be the
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  Speaker 3: obvious choice to step up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, And was it a tough task? Did you do
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  Speaker 1: you find it, you know, being a vice chair and
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  Speaker 1: stepping up that little one rung up the ladder. Was
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  Speaker 1: it a little bit of a challenge?
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  Speaker 3: No, I didn't find it too much of a challenge,
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  Speaker 3: although there was a lot of work to do. I
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  Speaker 3: think we might touch on a few of the other
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  Speaker 3: things that we're up to at the moment during this interview.
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  Speaker 3: During this conversation, we had to do a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of soul searching about what we needed to do next
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  Speaker 3: as a charity to grow with some of the projects
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  Speaker 3: that we have ongoing. So yes, there was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of work just to think about our strategy and to
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  Speaker 3: redefine ourselves a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So tell us a little bit about your background,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean, all the years you've been with the Trust,
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  Speaker 1: I take it as it basically as a volunteer, but
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  Speaker 1: you've obviously had a work in life. What you've been
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  Speaker 1: up to.
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  Speaker 3: So I started out as a PE teacher and my
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  Speaker 3: last PEE teaching job in schools was in Homewood in
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  Speaker 3: Tentedon and then I joined Canterbury christ Church University. I
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  Speaker 3: was a teacher trainer, so I was training pe teachers
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  Speaker 3: for primary schools and secondary schools. And I'm just coming
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  Speaker 3: towards the end of twenty five years of working there
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  Speaker 3: and I've decided to do something different. So I'm taking
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  Speaker 3: redundancy and July the thirty first, I'll be looking for
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  Speaker 3: a new job.
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  Speaker 1: Oh really, okay? Yeah, have you got anything in mind?
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  Speaker 1: Was it a tough decision or would like just time
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  Speaker 1: to try something else?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a really tough decision. But all good
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  Speaker 3: things come to an end, don't they. So I thought
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  Speaker 3: it was time to try something else. Nothing lined up
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  Speaker 3: just yet, but yeah, some interesting opportunities out there.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, Well, we won't put you under pressure there.
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  Speaker 1: We just let us know when you're start a new
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  Speaker 1: job and we perhaps get you back in and find
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  Speaker 1: out what it's all about. But I mean, the university
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  Speaker 1: is over the last it was. The time you've been
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  Speaker 1: there have really grown, haven't they. They call them campuses now,
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  Speaker 1: but I've been up to I always get the universities
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  Speaker 1: muddled up. The one this side of town, that's Christ church,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it church?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Was that where you were based?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it was, yes, yeah, yeah, And you're right. It
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  Speaker 3: grew from a very small college that you felt like
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  Speaker 3: you knew everybody when I joined to at its height
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  Speaker 3: a university of around twenty five thousand students and staff.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, the sport aspect of the university really grew
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  Speaker 3: and we used to have a few teams. By the
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  Speaker 3: time I'm stepping away, we had around thirty different sports,
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  Speaker 3: sixty or so different teams, fifteen hundred gym members, facilities
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  Speaker 3: here there and everywhere, physical activity and well being programs, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: everything you'd associate with a modern university, big operation.
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  Speaker 1: It has changed so much, isn't it. I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: you like it used to be like football and cricket
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  Speaker 1: and that was it, or a bit of cross country
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  Speaker 1: running if you were pushed into it. But now I've
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  Speaker 1: had people sitting where you are that have been to
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  Speaker 1: Lufborough and they tell me what it's like up there,
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  Speaker 1: and it is just the mind boggles.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, the opportunities are there, you've got to work
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  Speaker 1: for them and get into university. But once you get there, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's amazing, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: It really is. And I know a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: can knock Luborough because it's seen as the best in
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  Speaker 3: the country for sport, but the investment that they've put
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  Speaker 3: into it and the campus that they've created is truly
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  Speaker 3: magical if you're somebody who loves your sport, and it
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  Speaker 3: really is a place to aspire to go. And I
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  Speaker 3: say to any young person, because a lot of young
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  Speaker 3: people have put off university because of the money these days,
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  Speaker 3: is sport at university is a real opportunity to spend
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  Speaker 3: three years studying, having a good time, but making use
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  Speaker 3: of some really world class facilities. And it's not just
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  Speaker 3: at Lufborough. Universities up and down the country have some
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  Speaker 3: amazing facilities to access these days.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, facilities like I say, I've only touched on a few.
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  Speaker 1: I've been to the Christchurch one there. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: could go to Liftbo. I'd love to have a look
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  Speaker 1: around there. But yeah, you're right, So I mean that
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  Speaker 1: must have been if you've been seeing all those changes
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  Speaker 1: in the years you've been doing PEA, it must make
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  Speaker 1: it even harder because the early days was it just
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  Speaker 1: like a pair of plimp cells and a rope to
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  Speaker 1: climb up and now there's absolutely everything, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it really is. So christ Church still does a
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  Speaker 3: lot of teacher training for secondary pe. But I left
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  Speaker 3: that part of my role behind me about about twelve
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  Speaker 3: thirteen years ago when I became the Director of Sport
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  Speaker 3: and Active Health at the university, so I looked after
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  Speaker 3: all the extracurricular sport and physical activity and exercise. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: a slightly different.
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  Speaker 1: Role for me. Yeah yeah, But there are so many
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  Speaker 1: different sports as well now, aren't there. I mean back
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  Speaker 1: in the day, even going back in Folkston day, I mean, okay,
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  Speaker 1: in this town has always been quite popular, but now
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  Speaker 1: since Three Hills, oh man, it's off the scale, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: And the juniors, the junior section is so good. They've
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  Speaker 1: been to national finals. And it just shows that it's
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  Speaker 1: not just football and cricket, isn't it? These days?
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  Speaker 3: It's not just football and cricket, although sometimes football does
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  Speaker 3: dominate a little bit because it seems to be fifty
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  Speaker 3: two weeks of the year now that doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 3: have an offseason. But what I would also follow up
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  Speaker 3: on is to say thank you to all of those
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  Speaker 3: volunteers at coach at the clubs like the Folks and
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  Speaker 3: Optimists nearly always volunteer led and without the people who
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  Speaker 3: put in their time for these young people, clubs like
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  Speaker 3: that don't have the success that they do. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: behind the success and the opportunities for young people are
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  Speaker 3: a lot of volunteers.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. I mean when the hockey season is in
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  Speaker 1: full flow, I do try and report and all the scores,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's let me get this right, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's eighteen eight men's teams and five or six
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  Speaker 1: ladies teams. Now you multiply that by eleven, and then
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  Speaker 1: as the amount of players, then you've got all the
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  Speaker 1: coaches and all the background and staff, and then you
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  Speaker 1: think of all the transport, all the traveling. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: just it's just an amazing logistical nightmare for some people.
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  Speaker 1: And we must admit, while we're talking about hockey, I've
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  Speaker 1: got to give special praise. You know, Amy Bumstead. She
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  Speaker 1: is so good in the social media side of things,
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  Speaker 1: and every club should have somebody like her because it's
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  Speaker 1: just this is just such an asset to the club.
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  Speaker 1: And she's a player as well, plays in goal, and
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  Speaker 1: so's she's been in for loads of times. Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: with digressing a little bit, now, why I change the
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  Speaker 1: subject very slightly, but I understand you've got to she
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  Speaker 1: might be listening in. You've got a very famous wife
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  Speaker 1: that has sat in these studios and I'm sure she's
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  Speaker 1: training really hard for an event, So tell us what
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  Speaker 1: she's up to.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yes, my very famous wife as you refer to her,
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  Speaker 3: is Allison, who was one of the Atlantic Angels who
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  Speaker 3: competed in the British Indoor Rowing Championships in December. And no,
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  Speaker 3: she's not training very hard at all at the moment,
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  Speaker 3: so maybe this will be a prompt to get back
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  Speaker 3: on ready for December.
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  Speaker 1: So Allison, you can't hide now, get those get out
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  Speaker 1: on that rowing machine. Mind you, they're training in Charlotte's loft,
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  Speaker 1: weren't they, And it was pretty hot. So you get
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  Speaker 1: that lebrow machine out in the garden and keep us
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  Speaker 1: up today. I've got you penciled in and my diary,
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  Speaker 1: the three of you to come in and tell me
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  Speaker 1: what you're up to, So you better have a good
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  Speaker 1: story to tell. Right, We're gonna take a little break
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  Speaker 1: now and we're just gonna have a little bit of music.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: This is another theme, and I do love this one
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  Speaker 1: as well. This is the shape Shifters and a Lola's theme. Well,
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  Speaker 1: another great theme there. That's the shape Shifters and Lola's theme.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of takes you back to the days of Hawaii five,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it and the surfing along the California beaches. All Right,
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  Speaker 1: So we've got a bit of sunshine out here today,
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  Speaker 1: which is very nice. So we're in this lovely air
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  Speaker 1: condition studio and I'm chatting to Paul Carney, and Paul
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  Speaker 1: is the chairman of the Sports Trust, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have a chat about that now, Paul. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: not really sure where to start, so I'll just hand
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  Speaker 1: it over to you. What do the Sports Trust do?
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  Speaker 3: Well? Just before I go to that, I'd just like
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  Speaker 3: to say, I don't quite remember that theme. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: quite old enough, so I'll take your word for it
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  Speaker 3: being Hawaii five. Oh but yeah. No, we're a community
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  Speaker 3: sports charity and we try to deliver inclusive, barrier free
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  Speaker 3: opportunities to access sport and physical activity for all ages
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  Speaker 3: and abilities. I think quite often we're only associated with schools,
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  Speaker 3: but we do much more than that.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So, I mean, it's been going a while. As
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  Speaker 1: you say, now it used to be called the shep
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  Speaker 1: Waste Sports Trust. There's a bit of a name change,
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  Speaker 1: but it's still basically doing the same thing, and obviously
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  Speaker 1: it's growing. Are there any particular new sports or sports
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  Speaker 1: that are really really on the up, really growing down there?
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, we work across a number of different sites
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  Speaker 3: F fifty one, which I'm sure people know about. We
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  Speaker 3: have recently purchased the Sports Center Folks and Sports Center,
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  Speaker 3: which we'll talk about shortly. We operate three hills and
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  Speaker 3: I think one of the fastest growing sports there at
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  Speaker 3: the moment is paddle tennis and the Paddle Stars guys
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  Speaker 3: there who run the paddle Tennis. I think it's very
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  Speaker 3: nearly fully booked. They're very, very busy, So that's probably
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  Speaker 3: the fastest gros.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, at the moment, right, I have been down there
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  Speaker 1: and chatted to the two guys down there and that
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  Speaker 1: I've asked them to come on and I must get
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  Speaker 1: down there again. But I did go down there for
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  Speaker 1: a tournament. There was a tournament over the weekend, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean the first thing they said to me was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on the first day of the weekend, it
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  Speaker 1: was really well supported. But they were and expecting many
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  Speaker 1: people the next day, but they admitted that they chose
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  Speaker 1: the wrong day. It was either Mother's Day or Father's Day.
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  Speaker 1: And if ever you put an event on the Mother's
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  Speaker 1: Day or Father's Day, it's almost asking for trouble because
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  Speaker 1: people are so committed, you know. But yeah, no, it
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  Speaker 1: looked really exciting and I must get down there and
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  Speaker 1: with my diary and get them both in into the
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  Speaker 1: studios here. But I mean, the three Heels, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of added another dimension to Folks and Sports And sadly
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  Speaker 1: we lost the Folks and Sports Center. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: come to that in a minute, because it seems like
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  Speaker 1: it is on the way back. But is the I mean,
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  Speaker 1: did the Three Hills kind of benefit for the loss
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  Speaker 1: of the sports center for.
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  Speaker 3: A while, I don't think it particularly benefited. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: the biggest loss from the sports center was the swimming,
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  Speaker 3: and I know that a lot of swimmers have dispersed
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  Speaker 3: to other pool around the local area where they've been
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  Speaker 3: able to But no, there's quite a different offer at
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  Speaker 3: the two sites. So with the running track, the synthetic
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  Speaker 3: artificial pitches, cricket, you know, a lot of the sports
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  Speaker 3: on offer at Three Hills were quite different to the
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  Speaker 3: ones on offer at the Sports.
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  Speaker 1: Center, right, okay? And the Sports Trust is grown and
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  Speaker 1: grown and now, as a chairman, is it kind of
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  Speaker 1: reached a peak because it peaked? Is there more growth
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  Speaker 1: in there to go? Or were you like maxed out? Now?
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  Speaker 3: We are still growing and of course until the Sports
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  Speaker 3: Center is back up and open, we won't have peaked,
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  Speaker 3: so we've got a lot of work to do yet.
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  Speaker 3: But you're right. We started as a small school sport
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  Speaker 3: based charity just in twenty twelve and if you remember
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  Speaker 3: then the government cut the funding for school sports and
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  Speaker 3: to his credit, Roger Dehhn saw this as a really
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  Speaker 3: big miss from the local schools and he helped us
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  Speaker 3: to set up the new charity. So travel them into
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  Speaker 3: dan Hume and I helped her put the charity together
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  Speaker 3: and with initial funding from the Roger Dehann Charitable Trust,
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  Speaker 3: we were able to set up and help schools continue
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  Speaker 3: to deliver their sport and to help create bridges to
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  Speaker 3: some of the local clubs too.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And as you're saying, it's more inclusive now, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I've had your colleagues Sarah Green in here
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  Speaker 1: several times, and I'm amazed at the work she does,
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  Speaker 1: and she gets out to all the schools and even
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  Speaker 1: some of the little schools, and during COVID was really
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  Speaker 1: interesting that she was setting them tasks sort of homework
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  Speaker 1: to do and just to keep them active. But especially
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  Speaker 1: children that they need to be active, don't they They
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  Speaker 1: need to be doing something. And I can only say
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  Speaker 1: from yesterday's experience. If I get time, I'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: this later. But I was down at the track yesterday
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  Speaker 1: for the Shepway School Sports and there were the amount
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  Speaker 1: of excitement with the kid cheering their fellow children on,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the relays. They had a mixed relay team,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and the boys and girls. And the organizer
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  Speaker 1: earn In Beresford from Sandgate School, she says, I have
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  Speaker 1: to keep Benyd of these teams. These teams of six
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  Speaker 1: are supposed to be three and three, she said, but
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  Speaker 1: some of them try and slip four boys instead. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the Sports Trust, so is there anything else you want
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  Speaker 1: to add to the Sports Trust, anything else that you
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  Speaker 1: want to say.
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  Speaker 3: I think firstly to say we supported the event yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I think there were twenty five primary schools from right
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  Speaker 3: across the region, which is absolutely fantastic, and I think
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  Speaker 3: we were just about lucky enough with the weather. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a nice cool day was better than some of
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  Speaker 3: the hot ones we had. We worked with all schools
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  Speaker 3: in the district and we do extend our reach out
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  Speaker 3: a little bit towards Ashford and over two oh you do, yep,
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  Speaker 3: So some of the secondary school competitions, for example, we
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  Speaker 3: play some of the Ashford schools. We work with preschoolers.
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  Speaker 3: So we have our sort of mini Olympians type project.
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  Speaker 3: And it's terrible of me, I've forgotten the name of
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  Speaker 3: the people who have just provided us some funding, so
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  Speaker 3: I'll write that on your social media. Later received some
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  Speaker 3: sponsorship to help with that program, which is fantastic, and
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  Speaker 3: we go all the way through to activities for that.
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  Speaker 3: The older people in our generation is like that, so
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  Speaker 3: over fifties, I think that means I qualify. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so we do cater for the whole of our community
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  Speaker 3: and that's something that we're really passionate about doing. It's
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  Speaker 3: not just a focus on the sporty. This is a
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  Speaker 3: focus on activity for everybody.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Right, so it's out there everybody. So we've giving you
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: addresses and stuff. But I'm sure you know where the
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Sports Trust is in three heels. Has been a great
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: addition over the last ten years. In fact, it's been
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: open ten years and the Sports Trust has been going
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: even longer than that. So we're going to take a
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: little break, nap some music, and I'll tell you what
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I do like this. I might get a lot of
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: stick for this, but this is McFly and obviously.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Recently been.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Hopelessly reagion out for this girl who's out of this world,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: believe me, Esther.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: NEIV.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: So there we go. I've just found we've got another
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: McFly fan in the studio and there's only two of
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: us in the studio. You said you've seen them before, Paul.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I have said McFly a couple of times, including at
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: the Leescliff Hall when they came you can't beat the
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Bitter McFly.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what. I saw him once quite random
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: on a BBC news program early in the morning and
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: they did this some acoustic set of that song, just
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: like picked up the guitars and you oh, they were brilliant, fantastic. Yeah, right, Okay,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: we're into round three now, Paul, and this is the
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Sports Center. Now, the Sports center close suddenly some time ago,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and if you like, in recent times it's been announced
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: that it's going to reopen, but there are a lot
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: of hoops to jump through. So Paul, what's the latest situation.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Yes, the latest is it won't be opening very quickly.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: We did purchase the sports center about a month ago.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: The purchase was completed. There were a number of bids
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: to the administrator. I don't know the details of all
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: of them, but we know that our bid was preferred
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: because we were adamant we were going to save the
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: sports center and reopen it as a facility to the
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: local community. And I don't believe that all of the
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: bids would have done that. So we now own it.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: We're now paying the costs of keeping it sort of
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: ticking over, if you like. But since we've been in,
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: we've discovered that there is an awful lot of work
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: to do to get it back and open and to
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: a condition that is going to be nice place to use, right,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: And I think that's really important. The experience of using
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: a sports facility has got to be the right one.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: And since the building has been changed, I mean, it
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: is a face, it's an old building. Generations of people
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: in folks and have been there. Does it kind of
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: meet today's standards?
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Not quite so. I remember learning to swim at the
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: sports Center as a four or five year old back
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: in nineteen seventy six, and it opened just a few
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: years before that. I think I'm the same age as
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: the sports Center. I know from personal experience. Things are
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: beginning to drop off and not work quite properly, so
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: it needs a lot of work to get it back
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: up to standard. I think if it stayed open, certain
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: building regulations don't apply. But since it's been shut, to
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: reopen it it has to pass modern building standards, inspections
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: and so on. I think even little things that people
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: would probably look fast past, like the ramp up to
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: the front door, I don't think is d DA compliance.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: So right from getting into the building the front we're
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: going to have to spend some money.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: And what's the problem with the ramp. A ramp is
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: a ramp, isn't.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: I think it's a little bit too steep modern standards,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: so everything we can overcome, but it takes time to
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: put a proper project plan together. It takes time to
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: put a proper business case together, and I think we've
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: got to ensure that what we don't do is just
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: reopen it and fall into the same traps that the
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: previous administration did. Sports centers are very expensive to Sports
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: centers are closing up and down the country, especially those
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: with big swimming pools, and therefore we think it's probably
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: wise to take some time, put together a proper business plan,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: spend the right amount of money on the sports center
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: so that we're not just putting sticking plasters over problems,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: but we're reopening it as a facility that will then
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: operate for the next ten, twenty thirty years for the community,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: and that we're not faced with the same situation in
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: two years time.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Right now, as you say, obviously the swimming pools are expensive,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and the pool there is many years old. So what
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: about the actual equipment to heat the pool and all
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: that sort of thing. I mean, is that up to
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: scratch now?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: No, So, if anybody watched the TV documentary series on
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Chernobyl and looked at the reactor sort of room and
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: the knobs and the flashing lights, that's exactly what the
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: panel that controls the sports center swimming pool looks like.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: We've got a grant from Sport England, and we have
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: some grant money from the local council to address that.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: We need to put a new pump system in, new
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: heating system, in, new cleaning system in. We probably need
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: to redo the electricity supply to all of that too.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of work to bring the pool
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: up to scratch, but we do have some funding to
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: be able to start getting on with that work.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Right and all about the actual pool itself has got
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: any cracks in it or don't you know it? You've
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: got to have some sort of survey done, I suppose
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: of you.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, we will. But the pool itself looks in
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: reasonable condition. One of the things is that if you
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: keep the water in the pool, it keeps all the
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: tiles and everything in place, so we can't drain it
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: otherwise all the tiles will fall off and the bottom of.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: The pool will it dries out.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So the pool's been kept ticking over and it
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: looks clean. It's not up to swimming standard, but it
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: is clean enough. But yeah, we've got to spend some
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: money on it before we can let people back in
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: and use it.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and what a thing? What about things like
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: the gum equipment has they've got to be tested and
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: reassessed or risk assessments and that sort of thing.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: One hundred percent. But most of the gym equipment has
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: gone reclaimed by the administrators, so we will need to
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: do a complete refurbishment of the gym. The whole sports
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: center needs redecorating. The six changing rooms needs stripping out
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: and redoing. I often say, you know, when you use
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: something daily, you don't notice how bad it is. I
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: think if people were to walk back in and have
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: a look around, they would think, will we really using
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: it in this condition? And we've got to be able
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: to run it as in a financially sustainable way. And
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: people will only pay their money for an experience that
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: they expect, so we can't ask people to part with
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: their herd and money for something that isn't up to standard.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: We've got to do it properly. So it is going
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: to take some time.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: So our main from the top us have some sort
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: of business plan and projections. I don't don't you to
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: stick your neck out, Paul, but how long will this
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: project hak?
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: We think it will be twelve months, yeah, and we
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: think that's also relatively pessimistic. We think twelve months is.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Where we'll reach.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: There'll probably be hiccups along the way. There always is
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: in projects like this. I've been involved with some previously
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: at the university and so on, so we know what
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: we're getting ourselves in for. But it is an old building,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: so we will expect to find some gremlins in certain corners.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: But yeah, no, we're anticipating that. Unfortunately, it will be
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: another twelve months or so. But that's the scale of
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: the project, right.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: We didn't talk about this off here, but in the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: past I've had people from talking about the go ape
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: thing that's there and the ski club. Is that all
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: included in the package?
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So we're looking at everything and we will work
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: out what we can retain and you know, what we
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: might need to do differently. But we're very conscious that
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: we've got a community asset that we want to try
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: and reopen for the community. It's got a lot of
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: support and a lot of people have very fond memories
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: of using it. I learned to ski at Folks in
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Sports Center, as I learned to play golf at folks
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: and Sports Center. Yea and squash, we name it. We
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: all did it then. Yeah, So definitely we're very aware
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: that this can be an amazing facility for the community,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: but we've got to reopen it for the future. So
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: things like pickleball which weren't around it.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, right, yeah, No, I've had them of the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: san is it. I can't remember his name now, but
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I've had the pickable people in here. Yeah, and I've
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: been down to watch it and it's I'm surprised. It's
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: quite aggressive. Actually, it really gets stuck in you know. Yeah. Yeah,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: we're just saying that sport has changed and if you
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: can keep this town alive with the sports for another
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: thirty years, man, that'd be fantastic thing.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: So you're doing a great job, by the sand, we've
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: just got to ask the people. Are folks them to
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: be patient? There's lots going on behind the scenes by
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the sound of it, and you've just got to bear
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: with us.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Is that right, Paul, Yes, we would love people to
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: be patient. As soon as we have some plans to
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: share of what the inside the gym refurbishment, what that
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: can look like, we'll share those. We are talking to
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: the clubs that have been resident at the Sports Center,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: trying to keep them up to date with what is happening.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: But yes, we need patients, we need support and we
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: are a charity, so we are also trying to raise
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: money for certain aspects of the project. So we're putting
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: bids in for example to Suport England to the local council.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: So yeah, we do need support with us.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah right, okay, So we are fast running out of time, Paul,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: And it's been awesome morning talking about local facilities that
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: sometimes people, as you say, they take for granted and
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: when they're gone they think, oh, where's that going, where's
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: the sports center? So we just ask you you lot
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: out there, to be patient if you're listening in. Things
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: are moving. So Paul, before we wrap up, there's one
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: thing we've got to talk about, and that was a
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: fifty one project there that you mentioned that you want
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: to put a shout out for.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, So fifty one is the amazing skate park and
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: climbing center building just at the top of Tontyne Street
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: and we use that for our school holiday camps as
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: well as three Hills and we do a lot of
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: work on the school holiday camps and young people can
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: come in, they can get food, get activity. They're great things.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: There are still places if people want to book via
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: our website, and we also have the Shred Club. So
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: one of the things we're absolutely committed to is to
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: provide access to these amazing facilities as cheaply as possible,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: and young people, if they're at school in the area
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: in the Folkston Hives District, can access the Shred Club
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: for a pound, So turn up make use of these
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: amazing facilities for really nothing at all.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, brilliant right now, amongst all those topics we've been
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: talking about, Paul, is there anything else you want to
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: add apart from telling us how to get in touch.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: I think I'd just like to say a huge thank
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: you to all of the staff of the Sports Trust.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: As you say, running facilities is not easy, so all
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: of the staff that work in the facilities, Sarah and
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: the team that deliver the school's program do an absolutely
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: amazing job. The executive team have worked so hard this
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: year to try and get the Sports Center over the
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: line in terms of the purchase, and we have a
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: great team of trustees volunteers on the Trust who give
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: their time free of charge, some really brilliant people who
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: have been able to guide the executive team through some
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: really big decisions this year. So just a huge thank
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: you to.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: All of them, right, and I mean, it's so easy
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: to get in touch these days. So we just put
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a three heels or Sports Trust in the search box,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the Sports Trust, the Sports Trust that's right at the
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Sports US. Well, Paul, it's been a really eye opening
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: morning with you, Paul, especially when it comes to the
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: sports Center. As we've said, we just ask the people
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: of folks them to be very patient, and it sounds
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: like you're in very good hands, lots of experience, and
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: they are working for your benefit and for the future generations.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: And as Paul said, you know he learned to swim
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and learn all the other things. I remember taking my
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: three children up and down, up and down, swimming classes
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: up and down always happened to be on different nights.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: But you've all got that to look forward to. So
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: so Paul, thank you so much for coming in, and
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: we just await some exciting news.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: But before we go, I would just like to say
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: thank you to you Kevin for all the work you do.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I think this radio show is brilliant, but all the
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: announcing you do at all the local events, what not
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: even local are they? They're up and down the County.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: It's absolutely tremendous and I know that you've been a
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: previous winner of our Sports Trust Awards.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Another conversation we could have, yeah, but no, thank you
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: to you. Thanks very much, Paul. Right, Okay, I hope
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: you listeners out there have been taken always in just
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: be patient and we will get there. Okay, time for
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: a song now. This is from nineteen ninety one Rosella
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: and everybody's free. Yeah. Well, we're going to fade that
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: down a little bit because of that lovely interview with
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Paul Carney there. Just did overrun a bit and why not.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I have so much to talk about. It was excellent
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: and just people are focused on just be patient. Sports
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Center will be back. So it's cricket time now now.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: And at the Three Hills, Folks on first eleven one
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: of the toss against the Wits the ball and decided
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: to bat, making two hundred and three for nine in
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: their fifty overs. My scorer was Chasil Melick with fifty six,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: which will then stepped up to bat and with the
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: help of Byron Gould who made one hundred and four,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: they hit the two hundred and six necessary in their
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: overs to win. The game by eight wickets. This week
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: it's an away game to face Canterbury first eleven in
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: the top of the table clash at the Grove between
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: second place Hive and leaders Hawkings. I've won the toss
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: and decided to bat and made one hundred and thirty
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: four all out. Overtook this figure scoring one hundred and
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: thirty seven for four. I scorer was John Durant fifty
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: nine not out, so they won the game by six
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: wickets and they pushed Hive down to third. So word
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: done Hawkins. Sadly sees Hawkins at home to Saint Lawrence
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: and Highland Court, whilst Hive travel away to take on
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Canterbury third eleven. I've Green took a trip to north
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Down in Thanet. Won the toss and decided to bat
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: and made one hundred and sixty seven for seven. They
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: then disposed of north Down in thirty two overs, who
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: could only make one hundred and twenty three for seven,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: so the Green won the game by forty four runs.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: This Saturday they're at home to Worth Cricket Club, who
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: last week beat salt With by just five runs in
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: what must have been a really exciting match. Worth won
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: the toss and decided to bat, making two hundred and
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: twenty five all out in their forty overs. I've then
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: nearly made it, they were just short. They scored two
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty all out in their forty overs but
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: were five runs short. This Saturday, sort would are at
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: home to Herne Bay. Sipton Park were at home to Tunbridge.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Tunbridge won the toss and decided to bat, making one
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety seven all out in another exciting finish
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: and the Sibs fell just seven runs short of that target,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: making one hundred and ninety all out, so lost the
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: game by seven runs. This week the Sibs are away
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: to Bapchild Cricket Club, which means a trip to Sittingbourn. Now,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: if you remember last week I was highlighting the amount
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: of extras in a game. Well I won't do that
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: this week, but I just want to point out one
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: particular game, which was that very close game between Worth
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: and Saltwood. We're Worth won by just five runs. Well,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: in that game, Saltwood gave away thirty five runs in extras,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: whilst Worth gave away a massive forty three runs, including
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: twenty one wides. So it just goes to show how
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the amount of extras conceded in a match can influence
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: the finals. Gon. Well, the weather looks pretty good for Saturday,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: just a slim chance of raining, so let's hope for
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: a full set of fixtures to be completed. Okay, we're
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: just gonna have another little song, but we might have
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: to cut this one short bit because I've got so
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: much more to get through, So listen out. This one
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: is from zach Abel and it's called Dance Review as
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: zach able there and dance with youw Okay, So we're
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: going to move on quickly to hockey. Last Friday the
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Mixed Hockey League Stage four games. The results were as follows.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: The Ops under twenty one three Canterbury Green two Opps
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Blue Team one, Canterbury Red five, Mate Stone Iguana, Don's
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: a five deal Neil and South Saxon's won Cliftonville Neil
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: and a big thank you to Amy Bumpstead for all
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: that report. Now netball. Netball scores from last night. Panthers
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: forty seven Daisy She's the man of the match, A
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Woman of the match, Start of the match I think
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: they called them. And Morsten thirty four Alex Woodpecker's forty four,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Annabelle Scorpions nineteen, Millie Black widow Is thirty six, Rachel
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Ice thirty, Rebecca Rough Diamonds sixty one, Joe and Sting
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: raised twenty nine EVA and a big thank you to
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Black for all those results. And as we said
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  Speaker 1: in the past, if you want to get in touch
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  Speaker 1: with the netball team, they've got a Facebook page, just
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  Speaker 1: put in Folkston Netball League. Now, last Saturday our park
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  Speaker 1: run tourists were out and about at the following venues.
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  Speaker 1: Martin Salmon was in Ashford, Rachel Smith was in Canterbury.
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Drinkwater and Catherine Ann Curtis were in Abingdon, which
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  Speaker 1: is like south of Oxford. Now I must admit I
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  Speaker 1: thought the next one was a wind up. I'd never
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  Speaker 1: heard of this place before or never heard of The
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  Speaker 1: park run is called hobbling Well. I mean, what a
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  Speaker 1: great name for a park run. Hobbling Well Well. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that's near Orpington and kay Evans run that one. Christal
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  Speaker 1: Clytier he ran at dulagch Caroline Curtis and Brent Parker
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  Speaker 1: run at Sittingbourne. Debbe Jeffrey was first female home at
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  Speaker 1: Reigate and the furthest trip away was made by Rosine
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  Speaker 1: Bunt who run her park run at the older railway
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  Speaker 1: track in Llangollen in Wales. They'd probably say at lang
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  Speaker 1: Golan or something like that. Anyway, so there we go.
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  Speaker 1: They're out in about and a big thank you to
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  Speaker 1: folks and running and Athletic Club for all that information.
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  Speaker 1: And just got to remind you that on the first
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  Speaker 1: on the thirteenth of July, it's the first birthday of
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  Speaker 1: the Radnor Park Junior Park Run Sunday at nine o'clock
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  Speaker 1: and they want to see a full house there. They've
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  Speaker 1: got a few little awards to give out, so if
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  Speaker 1: you've never been to a park run, bring your child
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  Speaker 1: along and experience what the park runs all about. Basically
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  Speaker 1: it's two laps of Radnor Park and it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: if you can't run it. A lot of parents go
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  Speaker 1: along with their children and it's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: great morning.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday I was EMC for the Shepway District Sports for
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  Speaker 1: primary schools and accounts it actually it says twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: I counted twenty nine schools with a maximum of eighteen
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  Speaker 1: in a team, meant over five hundred children, although some
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: of the smaller schools bought a team of less than eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: The Shepway Schools area stretches right down to Brooklyn five
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  Speaker 1: miles past near Romney and up to Stellin Miss Stellin
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  Speaker 1: Minis and Bodgym in Stone Street halfway to Canterbury. There
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  Speaker 1: were races in four categories small, lower middle, upper middle
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  Speaker 1: and large schools, with distances set at seventy and eighty
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  Speaker 1: meters for the individual events and a sixty meter relay,
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  Speaker 1: then eighteen meter relay for both boys and girls, and
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  Speaker 1: there was also javelin and stand in long jump. Now
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  Speaker 1: the schools categorized the number of pupils, so the winners
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  Speaker 1: were in the small schools Well done to Elam the
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: lower middle schools and the result was a drawer never
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  Speaker 1: heard of before. At the school sports there was a
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  Speaker 1: draw between Morehall and Limb. The upper middle school winners
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  Speaker 1: were Saltwood and the large winner Large school a winner
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  Speaker 1: was Hawkings, so big world dons to Hawkins. There and
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: a bit of news hot off the press the Herald Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever play in the Herald Cup? Bet you
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: did at that primary school? Well, would you believe it's
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: still going. And on Monday at Lydd's Ground, Sangay are
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: playing Hawkings in the Harold Cup. Does that take you
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: back a did you ever make the final and score
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: a goal? Oh? Man, that's just goes back so long
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  Speaker 1: as a great trophy. That is okay, We're turning to
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  Speaker 1: play a little bit of Kaiser Chiefs and I see
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  Speaker 1: what else I can squeeze in. We've only got three
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  Speaker 1: minutes to go.
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  Speaker 2: The sound of Folkstone Radio Folkstone.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's the Kaiser Chiefs there. People know how to
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  Speaker 1: love one or other. I'm sorry if I'm cutting some
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: of these songs shorts, but there is a reason for it. Actually,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you very shortly. So my birthday weekend, well
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: I went up to London and what a great time
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: we had that. We went to Borough Market, that's a
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: food market, and we did a tour of Tower Bridge.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: You know that structure that goes right across Tower Bridge,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Well it's glass, some of it is glass and you
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  Speaker 1: can walk a bottle walk across it and it's a
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: little bit scary. The the following day we took the
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  Speaker 1: boat up to up the Thames, the Thames Clipper, and
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: then we went on a tour of the Cutty Sock.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I'd been really really good tourist. You know, the weather
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: was lovely and we had a fantastic time. And it's
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: just it's just got to get used to London prices,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: you know. It does come as a bit of a
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: shot cut. One cross on was two pound fifty and
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: if you want to paint, if you want a pint
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  Speaker 1: of anything, you've got to look at seven pound fifty
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  Speaker 1: at least. Okay, well times running out, that's enough for me.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: This weekend I should be on the mic at Maystone,
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  Speaker 1: pretty muddy. I'll be on the finish line and that's
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. Then on Sunday I'm at bure Water for
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: a comparing a five or fifteen mile race. So Saturday
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Sports Show I'll be in Maystone. Eighty is still on honeymoon.
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  Speaker 1: I think he'd be back the following week. So what
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  Speaker 1: can I say except I'll catch up with you next Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great weekend on one oh.
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