London Marathon news 🏃

All the best to #WRFA 's very own Andrew & Lee as they take on the #LondonMarathon this Sunday! They are running to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation. ❤️

Please support them if you can 🙏
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After yesterdays meeting with Bradford (Park Avenue) AFC great to see the club start some Disability provision, anyone who is interested please get in touch with them West Riding FA

Always learning. Regional Digital day with some of the West Riding FA team to continue development to support leagues and clubs into 24-25 season at Harrogate Pavilions

Couple of great meetings today with Calderdale College and Bradford (Park Avenue) AFC both sites looking to develop pathways across the grassroots game @WesRidingFA

We're excited to be running a FREE two-day Grassroots Conference for volunteers and coaches at our Fleet Lane HQ on 1st and 2nd June 2024! ⚽

Full details here ⬇️

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Lee Ashforth Thanks so much for your support!
-Nikki ❤️

Congratulations to everyone involved at Emley AFC well deserved league winners 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

With 3 weeks to go until the London Marathon myself and Andrew Shuttleworth are going to raise money for British Heart Foundation. If you can donate something for two old fellas pushing their old bodies to the absolute limit!

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Introduction to delivering a coaching session second event Queensbury Celtic great CPD event as an add on for coaches with Introduction to Coaching Football qualification West Riding FA

Great to meet Stephen Rushworth to help affiliate and talk through accreditation for new women’s team Bingley Belles who are looking to be in the league next season. Looking forward to working with the new club to help develop women and girls football. West Riding FA

Outdoor sessions started on the Delivery of a coaching session event at West Riding. Great CPD for coaches who have recently completed Introduction to Coaching qualification

Delivery of a Coaching Session CPD session tonight. Some indoor and some outdoor coaching and group discussions. Important for Coaches to continue developing and learning 👍🏻👍🏻⚽️⚽️

⚽️ A girls schools football festival has been taking place at BEAP Community in Bradford today!

West Riding FA’s Lee Ashforth has been telling us more about it and why it is important to the local community.

Hear more with Paul Ogden on BBC Leeds from 6pm!

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Years 3 and 4 festival this morning with years 5 and 6 this afternoon BEAP Community great to be out working in the Community and over 80 girls playing football across the day West Riding FA partnership working with Bradford City AFC

Girls Schools Football taster day BEAP Community in Bradford. Should be a great day West Riding FA

Was great to be able to send this email to one of my clubs BrighouseJuniors AFC today. Social media is generally around the bad practice at Grassroots football. This was the opposite. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻West Riding FA

Referee course started this evening Rastrick Junior FC a brand new facility. Have you got classroom space and a minimum of a 9v9 pitch, your club could host a course. Contact Lee Ashforth Senior Football Development Officer [email protected] for more information

Let’s grow this group in the community!! Let’s get involved or just come and watch from our state of the art BEAP Sports Complex.

Our Senior Football Development Officer, Lee Ashforth, will be speaking on BBC Leeds between 6-7pm tonight! 📻

Tune in to listen to Lee talk about the growth of women and girls' football in West Riding ⬇️

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This weekend, we had 𝘽𝙚 𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 at ⬇️

U17 Halifax Amateurs 🆚 Horbury Town FC
U13 Girls Kirkheaton Youth FC 🆚 Wetherby Athletic

The feedback was really complementary around behaviour, safeguarding, encouragement of players, coaches, parents & match officials 👏