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The PCR Sports Show - Friday 30th May 2025 - The Sports Charity Special with Phil Elmer, Chair and Helen Rome, Events Organisor at SportsAid Peterborough · The PCR Sports Show

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Welcome to PCR Sports. Good evening, I'm Dipam and
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welcome to the PCR Sports Show with myself, Nilesh and Nigel
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this week and you know, made it to the end of the week so well
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done and it's going to be a hot one this weekend, so whatever
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sporting activities you're doing out there, it should be in great
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weather. And we've got a great show lined
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up this evening. As always, in a moment we'll be
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getting the headlines from Nigel, but I guess this evening
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are from the Peterborough Sports, a charity organization,
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a charity that supports highly rated and highly up and coming
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young sports people to support them in their pathway to
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success. And we'll be speaking to Phil
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Elmer. Phil Elmer, the chair from that
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organization, and Helen Rome, who's the events organizer.
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And we'll be speaking about their their 'cause, their
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achievements and their celebrity lunches and what are all
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involved. So we look forward to speaking
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to both of them. But as always, let's get the
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show on the road with the headlines.
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And this week it's Nigel. Hi there, Nigel, how are you?
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I'm very well, thank you. Looking forward to a sunny
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weekend. Yeah, absolutely.
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By the time, isn't it? Indeed, indeed.
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OK, your headlines then for the 30th of May.
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We're going to start with some BMX news this week and
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Peterborough's Jess Maria has edged closer to a British BMX
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title. The 15 year old Peterborough BMX
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Club star is riding up an age group but took both wins in the
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female Under Sixteens category in Rounds 5 and six of the
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Lloyds British Cycling National Series at Manchester Platts
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Fields. But the excitement didn't stop
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there. The Pittsborough BMX Club sent a
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formidable squad of 21 riders to the event and they didn't
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disappoint. Among the stand out performers
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were Dylan Dixon, Christian Grubber, Chick, Owen Portland,
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Layla Dixon all earning credit for a final results and
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showcasing the depth of talent within the club.
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Ollie Todd, Frederick State, Kaden Thompson, Bradley Golden
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and Alfie Thompson all made it past the motors and into the
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quarter finals. The next round of that series
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takes place in Gosport on June the 14th and 15th.
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Next Peterborough Royals women's American football team and the
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next pictures for the Sorry. The next fixtures for the
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Pittsburgh Royals are tomorrow, their excellent start to the
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season. A couple of weeks ago they
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travelled to West Park Rugby Club in Kent where they would
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tackle the Cardiff Valkyries and the Kent Exiles.
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The Royals of course coming fresh from their wins against
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Cardiff and the Cheshire Bears, will be hoping to extend their
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winning run. Peterborough Town Cricket Club
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then and the 1st 11 delivered a Master class at home to
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Kettering, securing maximum points with a resounding 8
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wicket victory. KET Turing, battering their bat
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in first, crumbled under the relentless assault of Towns
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Hayatullah Nazi who was simply unstoppable with figures of 6
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for 34. The visitors then bowled out for
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just 120. In response Peterborough Town
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made light work of the chase, knocking off the runs in just 20
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overs. The star of the show was Josh
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Smith with an unbeaten 66 of 62 balls.
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Elsewhere it was a mixed bag for the club.
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The 2nd 11 faced a tough out in at Wollaston, falling short by
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95 runs. However, the 3rd 11 emerge
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victorious in a now biter at Little Paxton, while the 4th 11
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suffered defeat at home to God Manchester.
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Looking ahead, the 2nd 11 will be the spotlight tomorrow,
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Bretton Gate taking on weekly and Walton with an 11 AM start.
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Meanwhile, the first eleven will aim to continue their winning
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streak, seeking their 5th consecutive victory in the North
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Ants Prem at Stony Stratford. Also kicking off at 11 AM, the
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thirds will battle it out of Warrington and the fourths will
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host Wesley Triathlon and Young Pack track prospect Ophelia
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Goodale took second place in her age group at the Darley Moore
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Duathlon. Club mate Hugo Flickware
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finished 13th in the same event and in the Tristar One Race Pack
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tracks Brian Stouffer finished 10th and Steve Hope continued
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his triathlon journey on the continent with a 19th place in
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his age group at the Challenge event in Saint Paulten, Austria.
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And finally, some close season news from Peterborough United as
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the club revealed that they are eagerly awaiting their new club
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Crest and going to launch that two days before the start of
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next season. The Crest is a big part of a
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rebranding exercise which the club will believe will benefit
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them in the modern digital world.
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Posh believe they have created the identity which will satisfy
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club fans and meet their own business requirements.
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The current Crest was designed over 20 years ago.
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The rebrand will be officially launched on Thursday the 31st of
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July. The new League One season was
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kick off on Saturday the 1st of August.
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But the new Crest will not be deployed on kits and club
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merchandise until the 26th 27 season.
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And finally from Posh, Sheffield United's lost to Sunderland in
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the Championship playoff final at Wembley was a big blow
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financially. The City club would have
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received £1,000,000 bonus under the terms of Harrison Burroughs
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transferred to Sheffield United. And that followed more bad news
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financially for Posh when Coventry were beaten by
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Sunderland in the semi finals. Posh also had £1,000,000
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promotion bonus written into that transfer for Efron Mason
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Clark. And there's your headlines this
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week. Thank you, Nigel.
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Brilliant. Lots going on as always.
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Indeed. Yeah, indeed.
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Posh have made their first signing of the summer.
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Yes, yes, that's lots of social media around that show and all
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these goals. That's that's like they don't
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dry up. Absolutely is.
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So he seems like a really good, young, promising forward there.
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So, and yeah, obviously Hector Capiano has left the club, gone
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to Watford and Posh's revolving door will be, I think, firmly
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spinning throughout the summer I would imagine.
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I think lots more needs to come, yeah.
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Yeah, absolutely. Nilesh, from your perspective,
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what are you looking forward to in the summer for Posh and and
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any transfer type news? What we're looking at, I'm
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pretty sure there'll be another signing arriving soon.
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The transfer window actually opens what, 1st of June, doesn't
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it? It's Sunday for about a week.
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To a mini window, isn't it? Yeah, a mini window to allow the
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Club World Cup teams that are participating in that tournament
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to make some signings. So yeah, I'm expecting at least
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one more I think in that early June window.
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But then again after that it'll all be eyes on the fixture list
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and pre season training which kicks in at the back end of end
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of June really. But yeah, signings are needed.
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There's plenty of rumors going around at the moment, but I'll
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wait to see what happens and wait till it's officially
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announced because yeah, it's a long old season as they say, and
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you need a break from it at times.
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And I'm certainly enjoying this one.
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And new club Crest, as you mentioned there, Nigel.
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And for the digital age, I think Newcastle are doing something
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similar as well, Newcastle United.
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I think a lot of clubs perhaps will start following suit,
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maybe, you know. Yeah, I think, I think lots of
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clubs are already looking at it. I think when you look at club
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crests, lots of them, especially the ones that have been around
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for a long time, are very intricate.
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The detail is, is is in them. And I know they've all got
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history and stuff like that, but you know, when you need to
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replicate that Crest on clothing, on all sorts of
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digital products these days, that intricacy sometimes makes
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that really difficult. So I think it's something that a
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lot of clubs will will do and, and I think from from what I've
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heard, a lot are already doing. Yeah.
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And as you can predict, it's bound to be divisive, isn't it,
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between the fan bases. These sort of things normally
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are. You're never going to satisfy
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everyone but. No, you're not.
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Ultimately, the club has to move on.
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Yeah, yeah. And the fan base, you're right.
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You're not going to satisfy everyone.
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But you know, there are real reasons for parts doing this,
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and they've come out and stated those reasons and been upfront
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about that. You know, this is causing them a
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problem. And it is causing an issue with
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income. So, you know, they you don't,
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you don't expect that they wouldn't miss up this
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opportunity. So yeah, some people will be
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against it. A lot of people will like that
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history bit. And it's been around for 20
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years and what have you. But at the end of the day, it is
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what it is. Change is good, isn't?
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It absolutely fantastic. Thank you gents.
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Right, let's take a short break and we'll be speaking to our
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guests afterwards, starting with Phil Elmer, who's the chair of
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the Sports 8 Peterborough charity organization, who
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organize charity lunches and support highly high potential
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young sports people in the region.
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You're listening to PCR sports. Welcome back to the PCR Sports
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Show with myself, Dipam, Nilesh and Nigel.
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This week we've got just have the headlines there from Nigel
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to speak about the events in the city and we'll be speaking to
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Philan Helen from Peterborough Sports Aid in a short while and
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the charity events that the Sports Aid organization run in
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the city. Nilesh, you know you've been to
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a few of those in the past. A well worthy cause, aren't
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they? They certainly are, yeah, huge
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opportunity for the the community of Peterborough, the
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business community of Peterborough especially as well
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to get behind up and coming local sportsmen and women that
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are excelling at their relevant sport.
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And this is a chance for a grant to be given to them to help them
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on their way. And that can certainly help from
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a sort of a transport and equipment perspective.
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Nigel. Yeah, yeah, sure.
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From for me, it's, it's good to see these events surviving.
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I guess it was the pandemic that stopped a lot of stuff, but a
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lot of events like this seem to fall by the wayside.
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Not just sporting events, but the dinners and the afternoon
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speeches and stuff like that, that.
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So it's great to see one actually surviving and and keep
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on on giving for and you know, Peterborough businesses,
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business community can can be really proud about that, I
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guess. I know the the next events on
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the Friday, June the 20th and we're going to be hopefully
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speaking to Phil Elmer and Helen Rome very shortly from the
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Sports Aid Foundation. But previous guests have
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included the likes of Barry Fry, who many of our listeners will
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know, Derek Redmond, athlete, Peter Shield, England goalkeeper
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and Beth Tweddle most recently as well.
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So some renowned sportsmen and women there that have taken part
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in these lunches and given a given a talk during the course
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of a couple of hours over a lunch and a chance for people of
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Peterborough to come in and enjoy their company and their
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stories. Yes, indeed, they're wonderful
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events. And we've got Phil Elmer on the
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line, who's the chair of the Peterborough Sports Aid
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Organization. And good evening, Phil.
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How are you? Even dipam, I'm fine.
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How are you? Yeah, good.
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Thank you. So good Sir, thank you for
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joining us this evening. Not a problem.
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Good dude. We're just kind of speaking
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there in the studio about the, the charity and the lunches and,
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and what have you. But kind of going back to to, to
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the basics a bit more in terms of tell us a bit more about the
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the organization itself, how long it's been operating and,
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and in particular your role within it.
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OK, well Sports Aid was founded way, way back actually in 1976.
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In those days there was a Labour government and Dennis Howell, if
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you remember him, you probably won't.
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I do, was a sports minister and he saw other nations starting to
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fund their up and coming athletes through the Olympics
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programme. So he decided to form the Sports
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Aid charity. He was known as the Sports Aid
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Foundation initially and it grew and grew.
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And as you've been saying that, I'm sure it's to help youngsters
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achieve their dreams, their aims, those that are going on to
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national and international level.
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Because as we all know, it costs an awful lot of money to fund
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these things. Training, transport, equipment,
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kit, overnight coaches fees, all that sort of thing needs paying
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for and more often than not it's the Bank of mum and dad.
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Yeah. So it's kind of to support them,
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isn't it? Like you say, and you know what,
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what, what kind of age category does the charity support?
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What, what? What's the charity?
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Supports, yeah. When you get a bit older in
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athletes, you pick it, you're picked up by one of the sports
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governing bodies and probably funded by those.
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But the money rarely trickles down to the 12 to 18 year olds
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and that's when they're the youngsters are coming through
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and I'm sure a lot of them drop away because they're not funded.
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They don't have the money to to pay to go on to achieve their
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dreams. Sports Aid in in Peterborough.
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Peterborough Sports Aid wasn't formed until 2004 and we're
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rather unique within the Sports Aid group that the money we
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raised is ring fenced for Peterborough young Peterborough
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athletes and I think that's quite unique and I think that's
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quite important that the money we raise with our lunches goes
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to local, local young athletes. And that's just to confirm
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that's that's in the catchment area of the of the Peterborough
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City Council isn't. It Peterborough City Council
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catchment area, yes. Excellent.
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That's wonderful. So yeah, we're really helping
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local and regional athletes there, aren't we?
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So it's a very kind of local cause, which is brilliant.
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And the the lunches themselves, I know Helen's going to talk a
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bit more about the organization lunches, but kind of touching on
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those. There's normally a recipient or
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two attend those where they're publicly presented with their
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grant and and obviously wished luck in their in their career.
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Yes, we normally get the ground recipient to attend with either
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a parent or guardian and we've got another one coming up on
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June the 20th. And I don't want to steal any of
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Helen's Thunder by talking about that and I'm sure she will when
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he's on. So I'll let her deal with that
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specific event. But we, we, we've helped, I
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think we've, we've added it our quite reason, something like
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£150,000 since 2004 to just over 250 young sportsmen and women.
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So it's quite a large amount of grant money that's gone to help
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these youngsters in their sports sporting career.
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Which is phenomenal, isn't it? And.
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It's phenomenal amount of money, Yes, indeed.
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And in terms of recipients, whilst maybe not directly from
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the the Peterborough arm of of the charity, but Lewis Smith,
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who's who's locally known as a gymnast, he's a guest at a
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previous lunch and he's he's been a recipient of the of a
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grant in the past hasn't. He way back in the early 2000s,
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Lewis had a couple of years of grant recipients money, I can't
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remember how much without looking at my notes.
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And when I last saw him, he came to our lunch not so long ago
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actually. I was saying, what did you spend
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the money on? Because we don't, we don't
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control what they spend it on. As long as they spend it on
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helping them develop or enhance their sporting career, that's
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fine. And he was saying that he used
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to travel to Huntingdon, a Huntingdon gym, for training and
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he had a problem with a gearbox in his car and he spent some of
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the grant money getting the gearbox repaired.
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But I think that's brilliant. If it helps him to go training,
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that's money well spent on a gearbox.
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Absolutely. And going back to the cost you
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mentioned there in the Bank of mum and dad quite often have to
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support a young athlete. I think Beth Tweddle, a previous
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lunch keynote speaker I think, hinted that their families taxi
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bill was more than their mortgage in supporting her to
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get to her dreams, reach her. Dreams.
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I looked back at some notes earlier today, some old Sports
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Aid national notes, and they were saying about 8 years ago
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the average Sports Aid athlete and their family will spend over
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7000 lbs each year meeting the cost of their sport.
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Well, I assume that's probably 10, eleven, 12,000 lbs now on
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average. Yeah, absolutely.
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With inflation, it's in phenomenal amount of money,
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isn't it? So in terms of qualifying
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criteria for a grantee, what's what?
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What does a charity look for in? Applications it's the age group
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of of 12 to 18 and they'll be looking for young Peterborough
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athletes who are going to head on to national or international
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level and there's a very basic form to fill in on our website
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and you fill the form in tell us what you've done tell us what
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your expectations are get your coach to sign and agree it and
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we'll. We'll get our committee to
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review it and see if you're eligible for grant money.
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And any, any applications have to be approved by obviously a
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formal coach who works with the athlete to to kind of back up
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their, their claim of, of of their, their achievements or
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their potential. Indeed, indeed, indeed.
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Fantastic. And again, Helen, we'll talk
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about lunches. But just quickly, previous
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guests have involved sports stars like Neil Ruddock, Ron
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Atkinson, Martin Lawrenson, Beth Tweddle.
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We mentioned Louis Smith last. The last one was Colin Hendry,
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former Scottish and Blackburn footballer.
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Neil Neil Backer was in the 2003 World Cup rugby.
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Even Barry Fries spoken. How's Eddie the Eagle of course,
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looking back. And Derek Randall, the well
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known cricketer. We've had quite a lot of good
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speakers over the years. We've been involved since 2004,
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yes. Fantastic.
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Phil Nigel's in the studio with me my my Co presented team.
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He's got a question for you. I'll hand over to Nigel.
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Of course I've. I feel good to hear from you,
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Nigel. Hello.
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And it's, it's really refreshing to hear that you, you don't have
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very many stipulations about where the sportsmen spend this
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money. I know I, I work in that sort of
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field and, and I know that a lot of grant providers have paid you
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on page of rules and regulations of where you need to spend the
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money. I guess you get some good
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feedback from that and and the the the grant recipients really,
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really welcome that. Yeah, I think we we don't
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realize how much some of these things cost nowadays.
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I remember a couple of years ago, probably, probably more
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than that, a young goal minder for ice hockey Phantoms.
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And he was going through the kit.
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He bought all the kit he had to wear all the the pads and
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shoulder pads and the helmets and all the bits and pieces.
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And that was several 1000 lbs before you actually get on the
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rink and start playing. An enormous amount of money for
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the right kit. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, phenomenal, isn't it? And I know I've spoken to a
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previous award, a swimmer whose parents said that the, the
20:36
swimming costumes that she wears, which they have to buy
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three or four or five of every season case they they RIP or
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tear or get damaged and they're three £400 apiece.
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So you're talking thousands for, for just just basic equipment
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almost, isn't it? And at that level.
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It is, and at that level you have to have the best and the
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latest greatest, there's no doubt about that, to help you
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compete. Yeah, exactly.
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And it has to be of the right level because you are aiming at,
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like you say, you're aiming to compete at national,
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international level. And some of the athletes will
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have eyes on the Commonwealth Games, the Olympic Games, that
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sort of level on an international representation.
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Yes, of course, when you look at those ones that nowadays are
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competing at national, international and Olympic level,
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some of the day of recipients we've had of Dame Laura and
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Kelly, Ellie Simmons, for example, Adam Peaty, people like
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Dana, Asher Smith, all of those have had sports aid awards
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within FDA, young sport in Korea.
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And if you look back over most of the recent games, looking
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back from 2012 in London up to Tokyo 2020 Olympics, sports aid
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recipient medal winners are about 60 to 70% of the overall
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you British medal winners at those events.
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All of those are say about 2/3 to 3/4 have been sports aid
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funded at some stage in their career.
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Absolutely incredible stuff. Brilliant.
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Phil, thanks for joining us this evening.
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It's been absolutely superb and obviously continued success.
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Wish you continued success with the lunches and and the charity
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so. Thank you very much indeed.
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Pleasure. Enjoy your weekend and we'll
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catch up soon. All the best.
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Take care, Phil. Bye bye.
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That's Phil Elmer, chair of the Peterborough Sports Peter Sports
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25:01
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25:04
this week. And if you've missed any of the
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you can catch up later on. We were speaking to Phil Elmer,
25:17
who's the chair of the Peterborough Sports, a charity
25:20
organization, who runs charity lunches and awards grants to
25:24
high potential young sports people in the region and on the
25:28
phone. Now we've got Helen Rome, who's
25:30
the events organizer. Events organizer for the charity
25:34
who helps to organize the actual lunching events.
25:37
Helen, good evening. Hello, how are you?
25:39
I'm good, thank you. How are you?
25:41
Yeah. Good.
25:41
Thank you. Good.
25:42
Thank you for joining us this evening.
25:43
Welcome. You're on the pleasure.
25:45
You're on Live with myself for Nigel and Nilesh.
25:48
So Phil, just before the break was sort of setting the scene
25:52
about the organization itself, the, the criteria that for, for
25:56
grantees when they're applying and, and the good work that is
25:59
generally done over many, many years.
26:02
I think you mentioned £150,000 worth of grants awarded since
26:05
2004, which is phenomenal. And that money obviously doesn't
26:10
get produced out of thin air. It has to be collected from,
26:14
from generous donations and then people who attend the, the
26:17
lunches. So you're you're the events
26:19
organizer, organizer for the for the lunching events.
26:23
Tell us a little bit about yourself in terms of event
26:25
organization and what do these events look like?
26:29
OK. So yes, thanks.
26:30
I own and run Elite Events and Consultancy and a wedding and
26:34
event space company in Peterborough.
26:37
And we got involved with Sports Aid about 7 to 8 years ago and
26:43
just decided along with a couple of other charities that we
26:46
support in the city that we would gift in our time and
26:49
organise. All of these people just turn up
26:52
and think, oh, I'm just going to sit down.
26:54
It takes a while to table plan, make sure we've sold enough
26:57
tickets, have we made enough profit, you know, sort of
27:02
negotiate contracts with venues. We've got a great venue at the
27:05
Holiday Inn. They're very supportive of us.
27:07
So yeah, I just deal with all of that, plus helping with the
27:12
raffle and the auction, if we have an auction, and just making
27:16
sure that the people who have decided to give their time by
27:19
buying a ticket and spend time with us on their lunch break
27:22
have the best experience that we can give them.
27:24
Fantastic. And the next lunch taking place,
27:27
but literally in in weeks time. Oh, a few weeks time no.
27:30
No. A few.
27:32
I meant weeks as in a number of way.
27:33
I didn't mean literally a week's time, I'll get my words
27:36
confused, but in a in a number of weeks time.
27:38
Yes, yes, that's better. You scared?
27:40
Me then. Friday the 20th of June and we
27:44
have got the fabulous Craig McCall Smith and Aaron McClain
27:51
known to Posh fans and people all over Peterborough as the Mac
27:55
attack and what's really good at this one.
28:00
We're calling them Peterborough United Legends and they are
28:03
going to be coming and speaking for us, which is just such a
28:07
blessing. But also, as many of your
28:10
listeners may know, Posh recently won the EFL trophy.
28:14
That's correct. And thanks to your fabulous
28:17
e-mail into Alex, we will have the EFL trophy there for people
28:22
to have their photograph taken with it as well.
28:24
So something a little bit extra special will happen at the next
28:27
lunch. Brilliant.
28:28
And that's on Friday the 20th. And what's the venue for these?
28:31
You've mentioned Holiday Inn, where's where's the roughly?
28:33
Where's that in Peterborough? So Holiday Inn West is in
28:36
Longthorpe. Post code P36SG on your sat NAV
28:41
and we will be in one of the conference rooms in the
28:44
corridor. If you are coming to our lunch,
28:47
don't forget to put your registration number in the
28:48
reception and also it starts sort of open networking 12/15 to
28:55
12/30 sitting down 5 to one, 1:00 for lunch, 2 course meal
28:59
followed by tea and coffee. The speaker, then a grant check
29:05
given to the grant recipient and then questions and answers also
29:10
to the speakers and then the raffle and wrapping up and
29:15
leaving by three. You don't have to leave, you can
29:16
make your way into the bar if you wish and carry on
29:18
networking. But what's really good about
29:22
these lunches is networking. The networking scene has changed
29:27
greatly in the last few years in Peterborough and it's an ideal
29:31
opportunity for corporate companies to buy a table,
29:36
entertain clients, thank their staff or just actually, let's
29:41
just do something social. Let's do a little bit of team
29:43
building and just take a table. So cheaper if you buy a table of
29:47
10. So even if you're on your own
29:49
and want a ticket and then you've got a few friends who
29:51
want to do that club together and get yourself a table and we
29:54
would love to see you there. Fantastic.
29:56
And just quick mention of the the the pricing for individual
30:00
tickets as well as a table. Yes, the individual tickets are
30:03
£49 and a ticket, sorry, a table of 10 is 450.
30:09
Yeah, so it's a bonus to buy a table.
30:10
Isn't it? Yeah, absolutely.
30:11
And that's why I'm saying if you want to save yourself a few
30:13
squid and you can spend that on a, on a nice glass of something
30:18
sparkly in your legs break, then yeah, club together with your
30:21
mates and let me know. Absolutely fantastic.
30:24
And there's like you mentioned the format of the lunch there.
30:26
So an informal kind of meet up and then two course lunch, a bit
30:31
of a celebration around the grant awardee and then then then
30:34
the keynote speakers do their piece after.
30:36
Yeah, Yeah. I think this particular time
30:39
around, I think we've signed off for a grant.
30:42
I'm not sure if it's 750 or 1000.
30:44
I'm not can't remember off the top of my head because there's a
30:47
couple of applications we're reviewing at the moment.
30:49
But we typically try to give away anything up to 1000 lbs.
30:55
And as Phil said earlier, that is unconditional.
31:00
You know, you can do what you want with it.
31:01
It doesn't come with, you can only spend it on this, that and
31:04
that because that might not be where they need the support.
31:07
So like Phil said earlier, you know, Lewis fixed his car which
31:12
allowed him to go training. Fantastic.
31:15
Do what you need to do to get where you need to get to.
31:17
That's what I would say. Absolutely.
31:19
Absolutely. And the events you obviously
31:22
mentioned that it's, it's a great opportunity to sort of
31:24
Business Network, but I don't know if if a couple just wanted
31:28
to have a lunch date, they could have a kind of extraordinary
31:30
lunch date, couldn't they? It doesn't have to be on a
31:32
business level. These are This is a social event
31:34
as well as a business event, isn't?
31:35
It it is, it wouldn't be like you'd date night with.
31:37
Candles and a bottle. Something when 2 straws we're
31:40
not. We've not got a lady in the
31:42
Trump situation going on. But.
31:44
Absolutely. I mean I have got a married
31:47
couple coming and that's just because they love sport.
31:50
He's a Posh fan and she's like OK, let's go.
31:55
So it doesn't have to be just for corporates.
31:57
I would like to encourage, you know, Posh fans or people that
32:01
just love football just to come along.
32:03
Even if you are paying playing football at grass roots or
32:07
you're in a fibre side club and you think, oh I wouldn't mind a
32:09
bit of that, then come along because it's not going to be,
32:14
you know, all Posh and suited and booted.
32:16
There's no dress code. Come as you are how you are is
32:20
completely acceptable and just come and have a great time with
32:22
us. Yeah, and that's why the kind of
32:24
the events have been kind, you know what can I say are
32:27
open-ended in terms like I say the dress code that to make just
32:30
make people feel comfortable. So there's no kind of airs and
32:33
graces about it or no just just so that people just feel
32:36
comfortable whatever they're wearing or you know, long as
32:38
it's not anything that that's going to offend anyone, you can
32:41
generally come in whatever you want to wear ready.
32:43
Just not naked. Absolutely, absolutely.
32:47
Yes, Please no, don't do that. Yeah, absolutely.
32:50
And I mean, how many events have you been involved in organising
32:55
over the years? I know you said you would work
32:56
as a charity for a number of years, so.
32:58
I would think there was. I've been doing 7 to 8 years and
33:04
when we first started we used to do 3:00 to 4:00.
33:07
So I think I'm close. Approaching my 30th event I
33:11
think. Wow, that's a huge amount.
33:12
So you've tried and tested formula for you and I dare I say
33:17
you can almost do it with your eyes closed.
33:19
I do. That's why you sit.
33:21
You don't always sat in the right place.
33:23
No, I'm just kidding because it's always the same.
33:27
But what I would like to say is if you've been to 1 before and
33:32
you're thinking it's a copy and paste, it is a little bit of a
33:34
copy and paste because the formula works and you know, you
33:39
can sit next to people that you wouldn't have sat next to
33:42
before. You can start to build great
33:43
relationships. You just don't know anyone's
33:46
story just by looking at them. And you can meet new people, you
33:50
can just make a new friend. Or you could just sit the people
33:53
that are like minded. They're all there for the same
33:56
reason, to have a lovely lunch, to listen to some great speakers
34:01
and, you know, to enhance their day if you like.
34:04
Interesting fact actually. I am involved with another
34:08
company that for a short while were shirt sponsors for
34:13
Peterborough United and Energy Park Peterborough.
34:16
And we were the shirt sponsors when Craig and Aaron were
34:20
playing. So it's actually gonna be quite
34:21
nice for me to be able to say to them, you wore my shirt.
34:24
Fantastic. Brilliant.
34:25
Yeah, Well, that's gonna be quite I don't spooky really,
34:28
isn't it? In that sense that you you can
34:30
say that to him. And I mean, like you say, it's a
34:32
copy and paste in terms of format, but the the variation
34:35
is, is the guest, isn't it? Because I mean, I attended the
34:37
last event with Colin Henry, the the, the former Scottish and
34:40
Blackburn Rovers footballer. And, you know, his speech was
34:43
kind of inspirational comedy, but then it was just there was
34:47
that point in there about him talking about his wife and his
34:49
personal situation that that kind of almost brought tears to
34:52
everyone's eyes as well. So it's a, it's a, it's an
34:54
amazing sort of experience to to listen to some of these
34:58
wonderful sports people who you see kind of in the limelight
35:01
and, and, and, and appear that their lives, they're all glossy
35:03
and that, but like you say, you don't know what's going on for
35:06
them in their life. Do it quite often.
35:07
No, I mean, it will be no surprise to the people that know
35:10
me that I, I, I'm so soft hearted.
35:12
I can well up with tears quite easily.
35:16
But I think Colin Hendry's speech is one of the ones that
35:22
has impacted me the most. There's been a couple, but what
35:26
I find is the speakers have immense courage because they are
35:31
sharing something that is very, very private to them.
35:34
And we are very privileged to get a glimpse into their life in
35:38
that moment because they don't know with any explanations to
35:41
why they were in the media. And the media sometimes can
35:45
misrepresent their story. And when you hear it from the
35:49
horse's mouth, as it were, I'm very, very privileged.
35:54
And we watch some of them struggle.
35:56
And we think, you know, like you say, their lives are so easy.
35:59
All, all they've got to do is play football every week.
36:01
That's all they've got to do. But actually, you know, they're
36:04
up at 7. They're training really hard.
36:06
They can't eat this, They can't eat that.
36:07
They have to weigh in at a certain.
36:08
And you're thinking, oh, my goodness, you know, their lives
36:13
are almost not their own. They sacrifice a lot just to
36:17
represent their team, their country, their region or their
36:21
club. And yeah, to be part of that
36:24
actually, even if it's after they've represented that area,
36:28
is actually a privilege. You're you're being let into
36:31
their life in a small way and I don't take that lightly.
36:34
Yeah, absolutely. And, and no matter who, who the
36:37
speaker is, how famous they are, what they've achieved, they
36:39
still have the same life problems as anyone else does
36:41
around family, kids, Yeah, whatever.
36:43
You mean their car breaks down. Everyone has those.
36:45
Those things happen, don't they? You.
36:49
Know what you read my mind did Pam?
36:50
Yeah, they do. They.
36:51
They absolutely do. And I think, you know, it's
36:56
sometimes very nice to see our idols because sometimes we
36:59
idolize these sports stars, don't we?
37:02
It's nice to see our idols kind of be just everyday people,
37:06
normal human beings. I think sometimes we put them up
37:10
on a pedestal. I mean, we were really hoping to
37:13
get, I mean, I think someone's called them the Holy Trinity.
37:16
I wouldn't say that myself, but I think we were hoping to get
37:19
the lovely George Boyd in as well, but he's not able to make
37:22
it. And you know, they were a
37:24
formidable threesome for Posh and these two here.
37:28
We've got the Mac attack and I actually went to pick up some
37:31
stationary this morning and someone said you're on the radio
37:33
tonight, aren't you? And I was like, how did you
37:35
know? Brilliant.
37:37
You're becoming a celebrity yourself, Helen.
37:40
Get stopped in the street, you do.
37:43
Fantastic. I just really would hope that
37:46
your listeners would come along and support Sports Aid, get in
37:50
touch with us. You can e-mail the Sports Aid
37:54
e-mail address, which I'm sure you'll read out, or they can
37:56
e-mail me directly. We would love to see you there.
37:59
And actually, I'm unashamedly going to say we want to sell
38:03
more tickets. We want the boys who are going
38:07
to be talking to us to feel that it was worth their while giving
38:09
up their time to come and talk to us.
38:11
I want to fill the room. I, I want to sell more tables.
38:15
I want to sell more tickets. So to say, please, will you hit
38:18
us up and bite? You really want your support.
38:21
Is there a maximum capacity for the day?
38:24
I'll move it to the biggest. Yeah, at the moment.
38:27
Our maximum capacity. In that room I think can go to
38:31
90. OK, we're kind of halfway there.
38:35
I really would like it to be up to the 8090.
38:39
I just I think the this is the soft side of heaven coming out
38:43
now. I really would like to be able
38:45
to give back to these boys and say, look, you gave Posh so
38:47
much. You've given us so much today
38:49
and we've we've shown how much we appreciate you by filling the
38:52
room. And I think their name alone
38:55
should do that anyway. But we would love people to come
38:59
and support. Absolutely fantastic.
39:02
Thank you. And that's Friday.
39:03
The 20th of June, yeah. Lunch starts at 12:30, runs till
39:06
about 3, probably arrive around 12:00
39:09
andticketsarecanbeavailablebyemailingsports8peterborough@hotmail.com Yeah, slight change so.
39:17
And open networking starts 12/15 to 12/13.
39:20
Lunch sits down for one. Brilliant.
39:23
OK, that's still. Around that sort of time, isn't
39:25
it? So which is fantastic.
39:27
And thank you very much, Helen. That's been really, really
39:31
enlightening for us. And thank you for for sharing
39:34
that. And obviously, all the best with
39:35
the lunch event and future events as well.
39:38
Yeah. Thank you very much.
39:39
And I just want to say you're involved in this in a great way
39:42
and I'm absolutely loving working with you on the sports
39:45
say charity. Thank you and Phil and I that
39:48
opportunity, but we don't do it alone.
39:50
So for you do for us on our social medias and getting the
39:54
trophy there and everything. Just thank you for that.
39:56
No bless you. Thank you very much.
39:58
Have a great. Weekend and we'll catch up soon.
40:00
All right. Take care, Helen.
40:02
See. You bye, bye.
40:03
Bye, that was. Helen, Rome The.
40:05
Event organiser for Peterborough Sports Day talking about the
40:09
forthcoming event on Friday the 20th of June.
40:13
Right, We'll take another short break and we're back afterwards
40:17
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You're listening. To PCR Sports.
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Welcome back to the PCR Sports Show with myself, Dipam, along
42:39
with Nilesh and Nigel. This week we've just been
42:41
speaking to Phil Elmer, the chair of Peterborough Sports Aid
42:45
charity and Helen Rome who's the event organizer, telling us
42:49
about the great work the charity does locally to support high
42:53
potential sports people and also the celebrities lunches it puts
42:57
on. And the next one being Friday
42:58
the 20th of June featuring the Mactac local Peter United
43:03
legends Aaron MacLean and Craig McHale Smith Nilesh.
43:08
What do they that pair mean to the city of the club?
43:11
I mean, arguably probably the the greatest striking
43:14
partnership the club ever had or certainly up there.
43:17
Yeah, it's certainly up there. I think you've got to.
43:19
Consider the demographics that you'd asked that question to.
43:23
I'm sure if you asked an older Posh fan, the likes of Terry
43:26
Bligh scored 52 goals in a season.
43:29
Derek Dugan as well, you know. So they've been some prolific
43:32
strikers for Peter P United over the years, but certainly Craig
43:36
Mckell Smith and Aaron McLean. Great players in their own
43:39
right, but 2/3 of the Holy Trinity as well.
43:43
Let's not forget George Boyd in that as well.
43:46
But from a Michel Smith and Aaron McLean perspective, both
43:50
of them too really did get Posh firing, certainly from a goal
43:55
scoring perspective and taking us to the Championship.
43:58
And yeah, I certainly remember many a goal that Craig Mckell
44:02
Smith scored and Nara McLean scored.
44:03
But Craig got one at Old Trafford in the 2011 playoff
44:07
final against Huddersfield where the ball just took an age across
44:12
the line. But those magical 7 minutes put
44:16
Posh into the into the Championship at that point.
44:19
And yeah, it was certainly a great day, but both of those
44:22
players have created some great memories over the seasons that
44:26
they played for Peterborough United.
44:28
Absolutely. And Nigel, what's your?
44:30
Memory of those the striking duo Well, I I was, I was going to
44:33
say about the. Whole traffic gold as well, but
44:35
it for for me those two and and you you mentioned George as
44:40
well, but those two really heralded the modern area area of
44:45
that's the one I'm doing well this week.
44:48
But that you know that modern era of posh success which has
44:51
been, you know, Darren Mcanthony agent and bringing young players
44:55
through and finding those players from non league and then
44:59
making them stars in the world championship for those guys.
45:03
Wasn't it? But yeah, it it just that that's
45:06
what it means to me. I remember of watching Posh
45:09
regularly back in those days and, you know, you were just
45:13
attending games thinking those guys were going to score and
45:18
that just gave you so much confidence.
45:20
You know, invariably they did, and that was great.
45:23
But games, games that you you would go to where normally you'd
45:27
think this is going to be a tough day today, you know, hard
45:30
day at the office. We're going to do well to come
45:31
away with anything. And those two would just produce
45:34
time and time and time again. And Posh have kind of had that
45:37
like saying in. This modern era, you know,
45:39
you're talking about the the deadly duo there, the Mac attack
45:42
and and George Boyd, but there's been others as well.
45:44
Isn't it that they've kind of almost led the path, created the
45:47
path for for then strikers to come afterwards and almost kind
45:51
of implement a similar sort of approach?
45:53
I know it's been largely down to the club's approach and then
45:55
what Darren Ferguson has done potentially, but they say they
45:59
kind of opened that that modern ear of what Posh Posh's forward
46:02
and attack mean. Yeah, you, you know, mentioned
46:05
2. More Brita Somba longer and
46:07
Dwight York in there. And Dwight York's just announced
46:09
his retirement in the last last couple of weeks as well.
46:13
So yeah, Posh have certainly done well.
46:15
Dwight Gale, I'm sorry. Dwight Gale, sorry.
46:19
Dwight Gale, I do. Apologise, thank you for
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correcting me. But yeah, Dwight Gales just
46:25
announced his retirement in the last couple of weeks and, you
46:28
know, both of them again, you know, did really well for
46:31
Peterborough United and went on to get their big moves that they
46:35
deserved for their golf scoring exploits.
46:38
And yeah, what an opportunity this sports aid lunch is for,
46:42
you know, posh fans, if they're able to on an individual basis,
46:46
as you say, as fans to come together or the local businesses
46:48
in in Peterborough to come together and meet Aaron and
46:51
Craig, 2, you know, two of the nicest blokes you'll ever meet.
46:55
That's certainly that I've met, had the privilege of spending
46:59
time in their company from and they're just down to earth lads
47:02
and, you know, frustrating. I can't be there on the day I'm
47:05
out way out of Peterborough for the day.
47:07
But yeah, if you've got the opportunity to go and listen to
47:09
their stories and no doubt there'll be an anecdote or two
47:12
in there and that perhaps hasn't been regaled previously.
47:16
So yeah, huge opportunity to not only hear from Craig and Aaron,
47:20
but also support local up and coming sportsman.
47:24
And it's the perfect guest, isn't?
47:26
It for a Peterborough event or a Peterborough United fan, it's
47:29
just the perfect guest to go on and listen to what they've got
47:31
to say. And let's not forget the if
47:33
I'll. Will be there as well.
47:34
Yeah, you can see the silverware, the posh.
47:36
Retained this year, Which? Be amazing so and Craig actually
47:39
was actually a guest on this show last year there she
47:41
remember yeah Craig's been. On the show what, 3 or 4 Times
47:46
Now? I think in terms of the work
47:47
that he's doing, he's certainly gone down the coaching route,
47:52
you know, seen in certainly last season and certainly this close
47:55
season, he's been supporting current professional footballers
47:58
in in their fitness levels over the summer period and ensuring
48:01
that they come back when they are officially back for pre
48:04
season. They're in a in a better
48:05
position and perhaps one step ahead of their teammates when
48:10
they do return back in late June.
48:12
So yeah, Craig's certainly gone down the coaching route where
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Aaron has forged a fabulous career for himself in in TV
48:19
broadcasting, you know, Sky Sports, TNT doesn't He's yeah,
48:24
he's really doing well for himself.
48:26
And his knowledge of football, certainly at the lower leagues
48:29
is probably second to none, having come up through the the
48:33
the from grassroots effectively and now doing really well in
48:38
front of millions of people in a broadcast audience.
48:41
Fantastic. Thank you dish.
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So if you. Want to see Aaron McClain and
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Craig McCall Smith live speaking?
48:48
You can come along to the Peterborough Sports Aid charity
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lunch on Friday the 20th of June starting at 12:15 as Helen
48:56
mentioned earlier and lunch at 1:00 running till around 3/3/30
49:00
for tickets.sports8peterborough@hotmail.com
49:03
Or just search for Peterborough Sports 8 on the socials and and
49:07
contact them that way. 49 lbs each or £450 for a table of 10.
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And then as Inesh just mentioned, well worth it.
49:14
Both wonderful human beings as well as sports people, so it'd
49:17
be a worthwhile event to get along to.
49:20
Gents, that's it. Time is up.
49:22
Thank you very much. Quick mention of next week's
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show. Yeah, Well, we're going to be
49:26
featuring the great. Eastern Run back again on in
49:30
October this year. So that's the half marathon and
49:33
also the the Anna's Hope 5K Fun Run is back on the calendar as
49:38
well. And we'll be chatting to both
49:39
Aaron Morrell from Good Running events and Carol Hughes from
49:42
Anna's Hope, the charity, the headline charity partner for the
49:45
5K. Fantastic.
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Thank you Nilesh. Thank you.
49:48
Nigel, for this evening, no worries for your support and
49:51
whatever you're doing this week sporting wise, have fun, do it
49:54
well in this wonderful weather and for Les is on next, we feel
49:58
Good Friday. Other than that, we'll see you
50:00
next week and bye for now, take care.