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There are many different volunteer roles in non-league football and Northern Premier League football clubs need your help with them.
The Trident Leagues and Pitching In’s online Volunteer Hub is the place where you can find opportunities and contact your local football club.
Please visit Pitchinginvolunteers.co.uk to find out more
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The Daniel Wilkinson Foundation is a charity set up in memory of Daniel Wilkinson who died in 2016 aged 24, while playing the game he loved, from an underlying heart condition called Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC).
Dan played football from an early age and joined Hull City AFC when he was 10, earning a professional contract aged 18. Loughborough University followed where he completed a degree in Accounting and Financial Management while playing non-league football. He was an athlete who enjoyed the gym and took his health and nutrition very seriously. He lived life to the full and had so much ahead of him.
Other than feeling light-headed on a few occasions in the month before he died, he had no symptoms!
SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH IN THE YOUNG (SCD)
SCD is the leading cause of death in young athletes during sport and the majority of deaths occur with NO SYMPTOMS or family history.
Warning signs may include light-headedness, fainting, palpitations, swollen legs, breathlessness. ARVC can be found in one in every 1,000 to 5,000 young adults - IF IT IS LOOKED FOR.
Every week in the UK, 12 apparently fit and healthy young people (aged 35 and under) die from previously undiagnosed heart conditions.
In Italy, where screening is mandatory for all young people engaged in organised sport, they have reduced the incidence of young sudden cardiac death by 89%.
OUR MISSION
The Daniel Wilkinson Foundation has been set up to raise awareness of SCD and to provide funding towards heart screening, defibrillators and CPR/defibrillator training primarily for grass-roots sporting teams.
Tragedies can be prevented through cardiac screening. It is vital that young people are identified and treated.
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To donate: mydonate.bt.com/charities/thedanielwilkinsonfoundation
ANDYSMANCLUB
WHAT IS ANDYSMANCLUB?
ANDYSMANCLUB is a free peer-to-peer group that provides a place for men to come together in a safe and open environment to talk about the issues or problems that they have faced or are currently facing.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The process is about bringing men together who have been in similar situations, to help each other on a peer to peer basis, sharing how they have dealt with various situations through lived experiences. No matter how big or small your problem feels, we are here to support each other. The 5 questions that are asked each week are designed not only to encourage men to talk, but to start to focus on the positives and on strategies to keep moving forward. There is no pressure to answer any of the questions and it is not uncommon for men to just listen for the first few sessions.
The clubs all run on the same format and adhere to the same guidelines. A key principle of ANDYSMANCLUB is anything that is said in the club, stays within the club.
WHO IS IT FOR?
The club is open to any man 18 or over, who is going through a storm, been through a storm or just wants to meet a good group of people with the aim of improving one another.
WHEN IS IT?
ANDYSMANCLUBs meet every Monday at 7pm (excluding Bank Holiday Mondays).
WHERE IS IT?
ANDYSMANCLUB has over 100 locations across the UK. Check our website below for a full list.
HOW DO I JOIN?
Just turn up on the night. No registration or referral is required, all we ask is that you arrive before 7pm. The full list of our locations available on our website.
Column by jon couch
IN Cheltenham week, it’s not just the jump jockeys looking for one final push towards the winning post.
Macclesfield manager Robbie Savage is one of a number of Non-League managers with victory already in their sights – and this with six weeks of the season still left to play! Savage, the former Leicester City, Birmingham and Blackburn midfielder, who has also enjoyed a successful career as a pundit, swapped his sporting director duties for the manager’s dugout at Moss Rose last June following the departure of Michael Clegg.
And in his first season in charge, the Welshman is closing in on a maiden title almost at a canter with the Silkmen a massive 20 points clear at the top of the Northern Premier League, Premier Division table ahead of this afternoon’s trip to Morpeth Town.
With eight matches left to play, it means, a four-point swing over second-place Worksop Town will see Macc become the first club in the National League System pyramid to clinch the title in 2024-25.
Another club with champagne on ice is Quorn FC. The Leicestershire side are also 20 points clear at the top of the NPL Midlands title, but with Corby Town having played a game less, it means Ryan Beswick’s men will have to wait a bit longer before reaching for the corkscrew.
The Reds, or The Methodists as they are also called, are lining up a second straight promotion having thrashed Great Wakering Rovers 5-0 in Step 4/5 Promotion Play-Off last season.
Another club chasing back-to-back promotions are Farnham Town, in Isthmian South Central.
The ambitious Surrey club are 12 points clear under boss Paul Johnson, scoring 86 goals from their 31 games with a goal difference of +60. Surely, it’s only a matter of time before they get over the line?
Talking of goals, Isthmian South East leaders Ramsgate racked up a century in their 4-0 win over Eastbourne Town on Saturday. In any other season, their 90-point total will have all but secured the title but with second-place Sittingbourne suffering only a second defeat of the season at Three Bridges last week, there’s still some work to do yet.
Elsewhere, it also appears the National League is preparing to salute a (not-so) new champion with Barnet seemingly cruising towards a record-extending fourth Conference championship.A month or so ago, the Bees were locked in a three-way race for the title, with York City and Forest Green Rovers, but thanks to six straight wins and 32 points from a possible 36, Dean Brennan’s men now lead the table by 11 clear points ahead of their trip to Woking this afternoon.
The question is who can stop the north Londoners enjoying a very happy Easter in a few weeks’ time?
Fortunately, for the purists, both National League North and South title races are wide open and look certain to go down to the wire with a number of clubs still in with realistic chances of booking their place on Non-League’s top table for 2025-26.
Merthyr Town are flying the flag for Wales, 11 points clear of the rest in Southern Premier South – they’ve been magnificent this season under manager Paul Michael – while, In Southern Premier Central, four clubs are separated by just two points before this afternoon’s round of fixtures.
Big guns Billericay Town and Dartford are going head-to-head in the Isthmian Premier, but in-form Horsham are ready to pounce.
And it’s a similar story in the Isthmian North with Brentwood Town, Felixstowe & Walton United and Bury Town all in the hunt and separated by just three points.
One team whose race is run is City of Liverpool, who became the first team to see their fate decided after their relegation from NPL West was confirmed on Saturday.
At the top, Widnes are eight points clear of Vauxhall Motors and well placed for a first ever foray in Step 3 next season.
Similarly, Cleethorpes Town are in the driving seat in NPL East, seven points clear of nearest rivals Emley AFC –the same gap enjoyed by Yate Town in Southern Division One South. What a season the Bluebells have had under manager Darren Mullings.
Step 5 is equally as tight, none more so than in the North West Counties League where leading trio Bury, Lower Breck and Ramsbottom United all still on track to rack up 100 points.
Bury, chasing a historic second promotion back up the pyramid, have already scored 115 goals ahead of this afternoon’s trip to FC St Helens and lead the way by nine clear points with six matches left to play.
Traditionally, on-pitch promotion celebrations are synonymous with the sunshine. But with the weather as unpredictable of any pre-season trophy destination, and these teams seemingly in a hurry to get the job done, the biggest decision to make over the next couple of weeks will be whether to wave your club scarf in celebration or keep it wrapped it around you.
Northern Premier League Midland divison leaders Quorn
FROM THE ARCHIVES – THIS WEEK 1922
One hundred and three years ago this week Ilkeston United were entertaining Hucknall Byron at the Manor Ground in the Central Alliance. United fielded the following team: Stone, Clifford, Watson, Richards, Piggin, Mabbott, Lane, Bird, Green, Davis and Congrieve.
Ilkeston were third in the Central Alliance and Hucknall Byron were struggling at the foot of the table. The Robins kicked off the game with wind at their backs and the slope in their favour. They dominated the early stages but were guilty of wasteful finishing with Green., Lane and Richards all missing good chances to score. They eventually took the lead when Lane scored with a tap in after the Hucknall keeper left his goal unguarded. Davis added a second before Green scored a splendid goal just before the break with a header from a Lane corner. In the second half Ilkeston continued to dominated and added two more goals both from Davis to make the final score 5-0 to Ilkeston United.
Ilkeston continued their good form throughout the season but could only finish second to Leicester City Reserves. The Foxes dominated the league in the twenties winning the league on three consecutive occasions. Ilkeston however shocked the local football world by resigning in 1924 and taking year out of competitive football to regroup. When they returned they joined the much stronger Midland League but went bust and folded in 1932.
Nationally Liverpool topped the First Division of the Football League followed by Burnley and Aston Villa and Arsenal were bottom with Manchester United being second from bottom. At the end of the season Liverpool remained top and were crowned Champions but Arsenal rallied to escape relegation comfortably. Manchester United were relegated with Bradford City. Nottingham Forest were top of the Second Division followed by Stoke City and that is were the two teams finished at the end if the season to secure promotion to the First Division. Stockport County and Plymouth Argyle headed the newly formed Third Division North and South respectively and although Stockport won promotion Plymouth were pipped by Southampton at the death. The Third Division North contained teams like Stalybridge Celtic, Southport Central, Durham City, Nelson, Ashington and Wigan Borough. Only Crewe Alexandra and Walsall from the division have managed to maintain continuous membership of the Football League.
Elsewhere in the Daily Express the news was dominated by the governments decision to send £100,000 to Russia to aid famine relief. The Express was outraged that Bolsheviks were being supported whilst they spent a fortune on reinforcing the ir huge army. They demanded the Government look after the own “kith and kin first’. Also on their front page was a story from Kenya where it reported that a “black mob” had march ed on Nairobi demanding the release of a notorious political agitator who had just been arrested. The paper curiously went on to note that there were 5000 white people in Kenya surrounded by 2,750,000 natives. The police however asked the mob to disperse and when they refused they promptly opened fire killing thirty of the demonstrators. The Express appeared to believe that this was fair minded policing.
