Category: The Club Today
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Boxing coaches raise money for charity
Chief Boxing coach at Salford Lads’ Club Dave Connell took to the ring last week to help raise money for a charity. Ex professional boxer Dave, aged 57 took part in a 3 round bout with ex Olympic Wrestler Paul O’Toole at the Willows in Salford last Friday and came out winning by a majority…
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Young club member wins Federation Pool Competition
Club member Dylan Whitehead aged 11 won the GMFCYP Under 12 pool competition here last Week. This was an outstanding achievement by Dylan who held his nerve in the final to come out the winner in the best of 3 games. Dylan will now go on to represent the Federation in the North West Regional…
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Fishing and Football
The club had a busy weekend with volunteers taking a group of lads to Thirsk in North Yorkshire on Saturday to take part in Angling Day provided by the National Federation of Anglers. The event involved young people from the North of England and was organised by Clubs for Young People. On Sunday volunteers took…
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Award for young volunteer
Club member Matthew Gilligan aged 15 has won the GMFCYP James G Buckley Trophy. This is awarded to a young person who has made the most outstanding contribution to club life across the whole of the Greater Manchester area. Matthew has been a key member of our young volunteers and he has shown outstanding maturity…
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Biggest SLC Camp in 20 years
A party of 40 set off today for the Annual Camp at Aberystwyth in North Wales, where the club have been camping since 1933. It’s the largest camp to take place at the club for 20 years. The second picture was taken earlier this week, showing young club members loading supplies for the week ahead.…
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Thieves Stop Restoration Work
We started work last week to make the roof of the concert hall and boxing gym watertight, using some of the £250,000 that we have raised as part of our £1,000,000 appeal. Unfortunately thieves got there before us and overnight they removed 2 long channels of lead from both sides of the main gym roof.…
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Salford Lads team win Lake District Challenge
A team from SLC travelled to Ghyll Head Adventure Centre in the Lake District to compete in the Annual Frank Luke Challenge event set up by the Greater Manchester Federation of Clubs for Young People The team of 3 boys aged 11-14, Ryan, Wesley and Deane became our first ever winners of this prestigious trophy…
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Drawing Inspiration Award
Our project Knockout Drawings from the Boxing Ring has been chosen as one of only 5 award winners from 1312 Big Draw events across the UK. Sue Grayson Ford, Campaign Director, comments “Salford Lads’ and Girls’ Club and Ordsall Community Arts fully demonstrated the Big Draw’s aims of bringing people together, engaging them creatively and…
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Salford Lads’ through to Football Final
Last Saturday at the Kenward Sports Centre in Hyde our under 14 Five a side Football team won through to the final of The Greater Manchester Federation Cup. The final will be played at the Manchester Athletics Arena in March 2007 as part of the Centenary Celebrations of The Greater Manchester Federation of Clubs For…