{"id":1900,"date":"2019-03-08T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T09:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2019-07-15T14:09:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:09:41","slug":"football-activators-training-at-loughborough-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/football-activators-training-at-loughborough-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Activators Training at Loughborough University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Game-of-our-own.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Game-of-our-own.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Game-of-our-own-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>The girls  pictured with England Lioness Sue Smith (front row) and Liverpool Captain Sophie Bradley-Auckland (back row)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A group of ten girls from Bridgnorth Endowed took part in a special \u2018Game of Our Own\u2019 engagement event at Loughborough University on Monday 4th March.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The students from Years 7, 8 and 9 received training from the Youth Sport Trust, working in partnership with the FA, as part of an initiative to increase the level and standard of girls\u2019 participation in football.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Designed to inspire girls to be \u2018activators\u2019, it teaches them leadership skills to deliver football sessions to other girls when they return to their schools and communities.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as igniting a passion for the game, the programme also helps them to develop essential life skills, including resilience, confidence, teamworking and empathy.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trip was a huge success and the girls are looking forward to joining the mission to attract more females to the sport, along with challenging the stereotype that football is just for boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of ten girls from Bridgnorth Endowed took part in a special \u2018Game of Our Own\u2019 engagement event at Loughborough University on Monday 4th March. The students from Years 7, 8 and 9 received training from the Youth Sport Trust, working in partnership with the FA, as part of an initiative to increase the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/football-activators-training-at-loughborough-university\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Football Activators Training at Loughborough University&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,66],"tags":[2,16],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-trips","category-sports-news","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}