Over 700 campers at the Football Holiday Camp 2012

THE BREWSTER TRUST’s Football Holiday Camp 2012 has been for girls, boys and also for children with disabilities. It took place at Queen’s College with various age groups in the months of July and August 2012 for in total nine weeks.

Focus children
The camp started with a coaching course for 46 local football coaches. The following weeks the charity hosted 137 registered campers in the first group of the age group 5-9 years, 152 campers in the first group of the age group 10-14 years, 41 campers in the age group 15-18 and 158 campers in the second group of the age group 5-9 years. 172 campers aged 10-14 attended for the final two weeks of the programme, including 27 from last year, nearly 16% girls; the daily average had been 134 participants or around 78%, 80 campers or 46.5% attended every single day.

“Hall of Fame”
On the last day the awards for the “Most outstanding Players” and the “Fair Play” trophies have been handed over. Congratulations to:

Coach Luke with Alexander Dent (Fair Play Award), Darian Clarke (Most Outstanding Boy) and Jenee Ward (Most Outstanding Girl)

Coach Joe with Tyrese Forde (Fair Play Award), Dominic Dent (Most Outstanding Boy) and the twins Shai & Shaunte Carrington (Most Outstanding Girls)

Coach Sam with Brendan Sidaway (Most Outstanding Boy), Julia Taylor (Most Outstanding Girl) and Parker O’Donnell (Fair Play Award)

Coach Nat and Assistant Coach Matt with Tamika Campbell (Fair Play Award), Stefon Caesar (Most Outstanding Boy) and Aaliyah Williams (Most Outstanding Girl)

Coach Oggy with Samuel Payne (Fair Play Award), Wade Garner (Most Outstanding Boy) and Jeneva Miller (Most Outstanding Girl)

Coaches Luke and Nat with Matthew Myers (Recognition of Special Commitment); Matthew suffered a broken wrist on day 9 in the camp and joined in again the next day, THE BREWSTER TRUST wishes Matthew a speedy recovery.

Most outstanding participant “Coaching the coaches”
Also on the last day of the camp THE BREWSTER TRUST awarded the Most Outstanding Participant “Coaching the coaches” and congratulates Tamisha Marshall and Renaldo Hunte.

Nathaniel P. Brewster, Vice-President and co-founder of THE BREWSTER TRUST, congratulates Tamisha Marshall and Renaldo Hunte

Although THE BREWSTER TRUST intended initially to award one participant finally two local coaches have been identified and got an invitation to the next Arsenal Gap Year programme for one month including accommodation in England as well as travel cost. At the same occasion the charity thanked all local coaches who supported the coaching team during the programme.

Statistics
706 campers took part in this year’s programme. Axel Bernhardt, CEO of THE BREWSTER TRUST, states: “Analysing the Holiday Camp 2012 shows in our eyes interesting and commanding statistics like over 10% girls, nearly 20% rejoined from last year, over 20 nationalities, around 44% of the campers are linked to a local football team or club, no serious injuries and children of all 11 parishes attended – nearly proportional to the respective population. Not one of the planned 45 full camp days had been cancelled due to bank holidays or any weather condition. We served in total 7’260 meals. One figure which is an important indicator for us is the attendance, reviewing the nine weeks over 80% of the registered campers attended in average every day.” Actually the charity is analysing the feedback forms with campers’ and parents’ statement and also reviewing its strategy after two business years in Barbados before planning the next initiative.

Set-up
The Football Holiday Camp 2012 came complete with camp basics but also includes extras for parental comfort and focus on the children like health insurance cover, ambulance service, physiotherapist, hot healthy lunches and afternoon fruit breaks, isotonic beverages or shirt, shorts, socks and shinpads for every camper and not to forget a daily academic football session in classrooms. The courses have been held by coaches from Arsenal FC, namely Joe Mitchell, Sam Ingram, Luke Howard and Ognjen “Oggy” Soskic and Nathaniel P. Brewster, Vice-President and co-founder of THE BREWSTER TRUST. The multifarious coaching sessions included competitions, basic passing techniques, dribbling and turning at speed, slalom, turns, control and heading sessions including aerial control, using various parts of the body, basic techniques of shooting.

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