The sun was shining
for our annual ReachOut Cup football tournament last week. Teams
from Bloomberg, UBS, Matthew Arnold and Baldwin, Barclays and Oliver
Wyman battled it out on The Petchey Academy's brand new astroturf pitches
for the much coveted ReachOut Cup trophy.
Seven of our ReachOut Academy Year 9 boys volunteered their time to put together the event and help run it on the day. They came in to the ReachOut offices during their Easter holiday, ordering trophies, cutting deals in local supermarkets, drawing up fixtures and sending emails to the team captains, and they all then volunteered a further three hours to run the event on the night – working as tournament stewards, ball boys, judges and trophy presenters.
Seven of our ReachOut Academy Year 9 boys volunteered their time to put together the event and help run it on the day. They came in to the ReachOut offices during their Easter holiday, ordering trophies, cutting deals in local supermarkets, drawing up fixtures and sending emails to the team captains, and they all then volunteered a further three hours to run the event on the night – working as tournament stewards, ball boys, judges and trophy presenters.
This year the tournament changed to a 6-a-side format,
and the new surface contributed to some excellent passing football on the
day. Despite beating Barclays comfortably in the group stages, Bloomberg
were unable to secure a 5th consecutive champions trophy, as
Barclays turned on the style and upset the form book with an emphatic 3-1 win
in the final.
In the slightly confusing presentation that
followed, Cavell Duque-Powell (aged 13) awarded CJ from Barclays the Top Goal
Scorer award, which Cavell had decided was actually the Best Player Award – CJ
was not the top scorer – and Julian from Bloomberg won the Sportsmanship
Award. We want to say a big thank you to everyone who took part,
including the ReachOut mentees who volunteered to make the event happen and did
a great job on the day.
We raised a huge £5000 from the tournament, and
everyone had a great time. Look forward to seeing you again next year!
(If you are interested in entering a team for the Manchester ReachOut Cup on Friday 29th May please contact Heidi.exell@reachoutuk.org)
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| Bloomberg |
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| UBS |
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| Oliver Wyman |
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| Matthew Arnold and Baldwin |
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| Winning team Barclays with our Year 9 boys |
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