Category: Sport
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Great day for football at SLGC
Last saturday saw our 4 junior football teams all playing games. With no opportunity to to use our amazing gym since last March due to Covid restrictions our coaching team have done a great job in providing safe opportunities for young people to take part. We now have teams at under 10, under 12, under…
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Football for Salford Lads & Girls
From September we are increasing the number of junior football teams at the club and we want more boys and girls in years 4,5,6 and 7 to join us. Our new teams for boys and girls – Under10, Under 12 Our existing teams – Under 13, Under 14 We are an FA Charter Standard club…
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Senior volunteer Eric Salthouse is 90 years old today.
Known to everyone as “Salty” Eric joined the club aged 12 in 1942. By 1949 he was captain of the senior netball team, a high dive and crawl swimming champion and played semi pro- football for Altrincham. His first volunteer job at the club was to light the coal fires in the games rooms before…
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NeverMoreNeeded at Salford Lads Club
#NeverMoreNeeded Our film is a reminder of a typical lively Wednesday night at Salford Lads Club with football and boxing. 170 local young people benefit from activities we offer each week. Pleasee help us to keep going during these difficult times by making a donation at https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/4798#/Donation
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Global Youth project visit to the club
“ To Brighten Young lives & Make Good Citizens” is our founding motto, so it was good to welcome a group from Nelson last night with very similar aims. Positive Voices is a global youth project from Marsden Heights Community School in Nelson working with year 10 students. The young people and youth leaders had…
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Boxing at Salford Lads Club in the early 1900s
22,500 membership records – We get lots of enquires from people tracing family history and one recently asking about boxing at Salford Lads Club in the early 1900s. Unfortunately we didn’t have a membership record in this case, but the outfits in the photograph are exactly like lads used to wear here for a variety…
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Salford Reds filmed at the club
Ahead of the Rugby League Grand Final on Saturday at Old Trafford 4 of the Salford Red Devils team came along to the club with Sky Sports. They were filmed in the boxing gym, main fooball gym and the Smiths room and of course on Coronation Street and in front of the Salford Lads Club…
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Summer football tournament for under 12s
Our under 12 footballers are taking part in a 5 week summer football tournament in Manchester. Yesterday they played against Astley and won an exciting game 4-3. Pictures show them in the SLC gym with coaches Clark and Vitor and at the ground at Abraham Moss Sports ground. We will be running 2 teams in…
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Visit by Eccles Boxing Club
We had a visit by a group of junior boxers from Eccles Boxing Club tonight to do some sparring with our junior boxers. Its great to make a link with another Boxing Club and we’d like to build on this in the future.
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The Netball Party
This week the concert hall has been transformed for the recreation of “ The Netball Party” an annual event that took place between 1919 and 1939. By the 1930s netball was the most popular indoor sport at the club with more than 200 boys playing each week. We would like to thank Salford University for…