What have we been up to? September 2023
Soccer School:
September the 1st saw the final day of our Summer Soccer School after 6 weeks of football fun at Royton and Crompton.
We also launched the October Soccer School ready for the first half term of the new school year!
The soccer school will run from Monday 23rd of October to Thursday 26th October for a 4 day soccer school.
There is a limit of 80 spaces per week, for children aged 6-12.
Venue: Royton & Crompton E-Act Academy, Blackshaw Lane, Oldham OL2 6NT
Age Group: 6-12 Years Old.
Price: £72 for 4 days
Time: 8:30 – 15:30
There is still time to sign up HERE
OACT School Delivery Returns!
Schools returned after summer break this month which saw the return of our OACT school delivery to the 17 school partners we have with us for this academic year including BRAND NEW partners for 2023/24 in Hodge clough, St Edwards RC, St Herberts and a BRAND NEW secondary school partner, Crompton House School!
Schools are back for the 2023/24 school year throughout this week, which means our #OACTSchoolDelivery returns!š
— Oldham Athletic Community Trust (OACT) (@OfficialOACT) September 4, 2023
This year, we are starting the school year with 17 #OACTSchoolPartners!
All 17 #OACTSchoolPartners logos are proudly displayed within the OACT Family Stand, with a… pic.twitter.com/fHJHLGfBkT
Women’s Just Play Award!
Our Women’s Just Play session won the Manchester FA Lioness Award this month!
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— Oldham Athletic Community Trust (OACT) (@OfficialOACT) September 8, 2023
A huge congratulations to everyone involved with our Women’s Just Play football session on winning the @Manchester_FA Lioness Award š¦
We are so proud of this project and the impact it has for our participants. #OACT | #OAFC | @ATFOldham |… https://t.co/EPZC91k61h
We are so proud of everyone involved with the session and are delighted to see the session recognised with an award to celebrate its success in empowering women to play football, whether that is starting their football journey or just getting out the house being active every tuesday.
For more details on the session, email emily.ashworth@oact.org.uk or head to our community page and read more HERE
Smart Energy
We’ve teamed up with The EFL Trust and Smart Energy to help households within the communities we support understand how smart meters could help them better manage their energy bills and help them save money, especially over an upcoming tough winter period.
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— Oldham Athletic Community Trust (OACT) (@OfficialOACT) September 5, 2023
We’ve teamed up with @SmartEnergyGB & @EFL to help households within the communities we support understand how smart meters could help them better manage their energy bills.
Read morešhttps://t.co/zmuiFilqwj
#SmartEFLCommunities https://t.co/nD9L6CxfnK pic.twitter.com/zXH2uGauGE
To support with this, we visited the CHAI Ladies project in support with ATF Oldham to speak to their participants about Smart Meters, with the help of leaflets in Urdu and Hindi.
#PLPrimaryStars Education Activations - OAFC Player Visits.
We have had a busy month with our school visits returning once again with Ben Tollitt and Nathan Sheron visiting Royton Hall Primary School to get us kickstarted. We also had Mike Fondop and Shaun Hobson visit Whitegate End, Charlie Raglan and Matt Hudson visitng Willowpark and Will Sutton and Hallam Hope heading over to Woodlands!
Thank you to all the players for taking time out their days to speak to children at our schools and helping them discuss projects they are focussed on, adding relevance to being a footballer and their careers.
To kick off our first school visit of the new school year, @OfficialOAFC players @bentollitt and Nathan Sheron visited #OACTSchoolPartner @RoytonHallPri
— Oldham Athletic Community Trust (OACT) (@OfficialOACT) September 7, 2023
Year 5 and 6 spoke to the players about mental resilience, starting a new adventure and how it makes you feel as well as… pic.twitter.com/cliRtmkoGl
OACT Skills Centre
This month we launched our brand new OACT skill centre!
All participants did brilliantly with lots of great football on show and lots of fun had from all. there are still places available to get involved if anyone is interested please email, Holly.Espie@oact.org.uk.