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Date:- 25 June 2007

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Local girls triumph at National Finals National Footie Chick Cup 2007

SATURDAY the 16 June saw some the best young girls football teams in the UK arrive in Manchester to compete in the 1st National Footie Chick Cup. The tournament was the 1st of its kind on a national scale.  Teams from the North proved to be the teams to beat with all of the winners coming from the North West and North East regions.

Victoria Colts Under 10’s team from Wirral and Liverbirds FC’s open age team from Southport, triumphed over the top teams in the UK to become the 1st ever winners of the Footie Chick Cup.  Victoria Colts were the side to beat on the day. The winners of the regional heats in May came head to head with their local rivals Everton FC in the grand finals to win 4-1 and be crowned national champions.

In the Open Age category, qualifiers from the North West region, Liverbirds FC triumphed over some great open age teams including Manchester City and finally beating Havant & Waterlooville in the grand final to win 5-2.

The tournament began in May this year with 6 regional heats around the UK.

Teams competed in Glasgow, Manchester, Derby, North Shields, Portsmouth and Kent. Over 200 teams competed around the UK in their relative age category (under 10’s, under 12’s, under 14’s, under 16’s and open age). The tournament not only attracted some of the top local teams but also some of the leading academy teams such as Newcastle United, Manchester City, West Ham, Wigan, Sheffield United and Everton Football Club. The winners and runners up from each location and age category were then invited to the Grand Finals which was held at the JJB Soccer Dome in Trafford Park, Manchester on the 16 June.

Female football is the fastest growing sport in the world and is now the most popular female sport in the UK. Organisers, Footie Chick is the UK’s only specialist sports brand dedicated to female footballers and supporters of the game.

The company originally started producing a highly technical range of clothing for female players and a fashion range of clothing for supporters of the game.

Following a hugely successful tournament held in the North West in 2006 and increased popularity in the sport, Footie Chick decided to launch the first national tournament solely for females of all ages.

The tournament was a great opportunity to continue the growth and interest in the sport and help to develop the country’s future talent.

The company is already working on next years tournament with the regional heats planned for the 17 2008 and 18 May 2008.

500 ENTRIES FOR SAMARITANS’ ART PRIZE

THERE were an amazing 500 entries for the Young Ambassadors with Samaritans’ 1st art competition, The Grieve+Samaritans Art Prize. Entries were received from the UK and as far a-field as the USA, Israel and Costa Rica.  The competition and the auction of short listed works raised an impressive £14,000 for Samaritans – and also increased the profile of the charity’s emotional health support work among those in the art community.

The winning artist who received the 1st prize of £2,000 was Adam Sunderland while the 2 runners-up who received £1,000 each were Caron Geary and Wendy Mayer. 

The Awards Reception was held on Wednesday June 13 on The Terrace at the House of Commons and was hosted by Ed Vaizey MP, Chair of the All Party group which supports the work of Samaritans. Matthew Wright from “The Wright Stuff” on Channel 5 TV was the guest speaker and the event was attended by over 150 artists and guests. The 15 short-listed works of art were auctioned during the evening with half the proceeds going to Samaritans and half to the artists.

Young Ambassadors’ Charlotte Vere said:- “All of us at Young Ambassadors with Samaritans who have worked on this year’s art competition are delighted with the outcome and impressed by the excellent standard of entries. We are looking forward to organising the prize again next year. “

Adam Sunderland, the competition winner, said:- “My work is graphic, often outwardly simple. I am driven by a desire to produce images that show our world in an unusual and interesting light. In “The Girl and Her Monster” the girl paints a monster on the wall without knowing what it means. I believe that our ability to express our emotions through creative avenues is crucial to our well-being and that the environment that we form around ourselves reflects our mental state.”

Adam lives in Thornton Le Dale, a small village near Pickering in North Yorkshire and works from a studio in his home. He completed a BA Fine Arts at Cardiff University achieving a 1st Class Honours degree last year.

Caron Geary’s entry was a photographic digital print entitled Lorenzo showing a distressed young boy. When talking about her short listed work, Caron said:- “This collaborative performance acts as a metaphor for life’s more extreme experiences, our responses to them and how we choose or are forced to deal with adverse situations, that we are often powerless to change or control.  It is a particularly British trait to ‘sweep things under the carpet’; pretending situations are fine when they are clearly not. Children tend to act more honestly, until they are socialized into behaving otherwise. Part of this work is a response to that stiff upper lip tradition of carrying on regardless, in the face of adversity and our reluctance to disclose our feelings when we are at our most vulnerable or pressured. ”

Wendy Mayer’s entry was a sculpture of herself as a “Rag Doll”. Wendy is a 2nd year Fine Arts student at Loughborough University and says her work is dominated by her fascination with the uncanny. She said:- “My recent work has been inspired by a psychological report on a woman in her forties who acts and dresses like a child, who does not want to grow any older and who wishes she were a doll. This particular sculpture has also been influences by a text called ‘Corners’ from the Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard. ”

The prize was sponsored by the Alan and Karen Grieve Charitable Trust and supported by Christie’s.  The panel of judges was chaired by Ed Vaizey MP, Shadow Minister for Culture, and to include Anthony McNerney, Director of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s, and Camilla D’Arcy-Irvine of the Jerwood Foundation.

FAME TV AUCTIONS AIRTIME ON EBAY

Fame TV,  the viewer-led channel on Sky 187, is once again combining the web and live television by offering people in their homes a chance for shameless self promotion.

Using Ebay as its sales outlet, Fame TV has listed a number of available live TV slots - so viewers can bid for their own 15 minutes of fame with a dedicated broadcast on Fame TV!

John Haynes of Fame TV says:- "This comes at an interesting time, just as Simon Cowell's new show, 'Britain’s Got Talent', has given Paul Potts the chance to win a performance in front of the Queen at this year's Royal Variety Show. Now, Fame TV is giving people in the UK the chance to show off their individual talents to the nation."

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