VYD is delighted to present ‘Away From Home: ESOL & Football’ sessions for refugees and asylum seekers aged 16-18. The project has been funded by Brighton & Hove City Council and will feature 24 participants displaced from Ukraine and other places around the globe. VYD has experienced ESOL teachers and refugee football coaches within its ranks, […]
As another year ends, here’s a roundup of what we got up to at VYD in 2022. Happy Hawks Our collaboration with the ever-excellent Crew Club has led to a new youth football infrastructure in Whitehawk taking shape this year. The Crew Club Hawks u8s are thriving in their league, with the number of players […]
Our ABC (Agility Balance Coordination) Football sessions have been going down a storm with reception year children at Brighton & Hove Primary Schools and Community Centres. The children – and the community leaders and teachers! – love the exciting, innovative sessions, which include a variety of fun elements including an obstacle course made up […]
As well as being VYD’s Ops Manager I work as a careers adviser. A common worry the young people I work with have is how to ‘prove’ the work experience or volunteering they’ve done and how to get a reference, either because their previous supervisor no longer works there or they don’t have their contact […]
VYD has recently teamed up with charity partner, 1in6.uk, to help promote the important issue of safeguarding in football. VYD’s owner, Gary Pleece, who was abused by coaches in the grassroots game back in the 1970s, discussed how far safeguarding has come, and how far it still has to go, with Ian Ackley, a former […]
We are delighted to team up with iSpeak Football from London to deliver a new project for refugees in Brighton and Hove, that combines ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) and football. The sessions will start on September 20th at BHASVIC sixth form college in Brighton & Hove, running for 12 weeks and featuring […]
Friend of VYD CIC, Montpelier Villa legend and all-round lovely human being, Lewis Claydon, is fundraising for VYD. Lewis saw some of our programmes in action and decided to get involved to support us to help more marginalised and displaced people. We couldn’t be more thankful for Lewis’s amazing support. Some of the refugees who […]
Refugees are displaced people who have crossed national boundaries because they can’t return home due to well-founded fear of persecution. Some of the young, displaced people VYD works with, have travelled for nearly a year to make it to the UK and then, like the young man in this story, some can become enslaved and […]
Two teams made up of migrants and refugees from the Sussex region in the UK, played a friendly football match against each other for the first time at Falmer Sports Complex on July 25th 2021. The match between Brighton based Manor FC and Nations United from Chichester, was considered a great success. This was Manor’s […]
VYD have teamed up and entered into an ‘awareness raising partnership’ with two charitable organisations that are close to our owner, Gary’s, heart: Mankind and 1in6.uk. Mankind is a charity based in Hove for men affected by unwanted sexual experiences and 1in6.uk is a website and movement that helps men on the beginning of their […]