Donegal soccer legends Geraldine McGlinchey and Ray Houghton have been in Buncrana final week to launch a significant funding at Buncrana Hearts FC.
The Inishowen soccer membership is to profit from the Cadbury Grounds for Change marketing campaign to assist girls in soccer. Significant funding shall be made to enhance the golf equipment’ services and tools.
Pictured on the Cadbury Grounds For Change launch in Buncrana Hearts FC are particular friends, former Irish participant Ray Houghton and former Irish participant, Geraldine McGlinchey who was a part of the primary ever girls’s squad in 1973.
Cadbury has been a companion of Eire’s Ladies’s Nationwide Soccer crew since 2021, with the goal of encouraging extra girls to play soccer.
Grounds for Change is the following stage of the Cadbury Supporter And A Half marketing campaign to extend visibility of girls’s soccer and drive participation throughout Eire.
The funding from Cadbury will go away a legacy for 3 Irish golf equipment and their neighborhood properly into the longer term, with every membership receiving funding that’s getting used for numerous objects comparable to new dugouts, kits, coaching tools, first assist kits, or purpose posts together with nets.
Buncrana Hearts FC, Bluebell Knockmitten United FC, Dublin 22 and Douglas, Co. Cork have every benefitted from the marketing campaign.
The official launch of Cadbury Grounds for Change Donegal passed off final week in Buncrana Hearts FC with the assist of former gamers Geraldine McGlinchey and Ray Houghton. Members of the neighborhood joined Geraldine and Ray to showcase the brand new membership updates in addition to unveiling a formidable illustration from FRIZ (Marian Noone).
Buncrana Hearts FC Will get Main Funding As A part of Cadbury Supporter And A Half Marketing campaign Selling Ladies’s Soccer
Talking about Cadbury Grounds for Change, Eileen Leahy, Model Supervisor Chocolate, Mondelez Eire, stated: “Cadbury is a model synonymous with generosity, and Cadbury Supporter And A Half carries the essence of that. Grounds for Change is the following step and the funding will give pitches and neighborhood areas a revamp to make them accessible for everybody in the neighborhood to come back collectively and play the sport. Cadbury Grounds for Change is our approach of leaving an enduring legacy and actually supporting girls to get entangled. It’s extremely thrilling to see girls’s soccer lastly getting the popularity that it richly deserves. We’ve had a summer season to recollect with our Republic of Eire’s Ladies’s Nationwide Group doing us proud in Australia, and they’re an inspiration for generations of younger girls. Get behind our women in inexperienced and be a supporter and a half all yr spherical!”
Mark McLaughlin – Soccer Coach – Buncrana hearts FC, with Ray Houghton
Since 2021, Cadbury Eire has supported 50 grassroots golf equipment with much more golf equipment set to profit this yr. Cadbury continues to take an energetic function in supporting the FAI’s technique to boost consciousness and develop the ladies’s recreation in Eire by means of acts of generosity.
In 2022, Cadbury donated €50,000 to grassroots golf equipment in addition to freely giving unforgettable experiences together with a training masterclass with coach Vera Pauw, a meet and greet with Eire captain Katie McCabe and the prospect to attend a WNT coaching session.
Earlier this yr, Cadbury Supporter And A Half marketing campaign launched FAI Cadbury Kick Match. A enjoyable and non-competitive social programme for girls, the brand new initiative goals to boost consciousness and encourage participation in senior girls’s soccer. FAI Cadbury Kick Match is working in areas throughout the nation for eight weeks with greater than 20 grassroots golf equipment participating with over 600 girls.
For extra data on Cadbury Supporter & A Half, see cadbury.ie/discover/partnerships/womens-football or observe the dialog on-line, @CadburyIreland.
Soccer stars unveil Cadbury funding at Buncrana Hearts FC was final modified: August twenty eighth, 2023 by
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