5 Aside Charity Football Tournament

Durham Pride UK presents 5 Aside Charity Football Tournament at Collingwood College

As part of our 'tackling homophobia' in football campaign with our North East Rainbow Alliance, we are holding a 5 A-Side football tournament on Sunday 27th February at Collingwood College in Durham on their outdoor all weather pitch.

This coincides with the end of LGBT+ History Month and in recognition of his support for Durham Pride, we hope to have the Ron Hogg CBE Memorial Trophy for the winners which will be presented at the Durham Pride festival this year with the winning team being our VIP guests.

We would love to have teams from Police, Fire, Ambulance and all the Colleges as well as housing and frontline support agencies to make this a memorable event and worthy of Ron and his work for everyone in County Durham and Darlington.  Please forward and share this email far and wide to anyone who you think might like to be involved. 

We are asking for a charity donation of £10 a team. Teams must be over 18 but can be any mix of gender, age and ability. Boots or trainers and we have bibs for teams so no need for any extra expense. Tom has checked my life insurance and I can confirm I will be coming out of retirement to captain our very own Pride team and my legs will be on full display for the first time in 20 years! 

It would be great to get as many teams as possible to highlight this campaign or just to recognise your support for LGBT+ History Month and Durham Pride. Also great if leaders were able to encourage a team and bring support on the day from their agencies. Café/bar will be open for presentations following the tournament. It is likely that we will get tv/press interest and team captains may be asked to pose or provide brief interviews and good exposure for agencies and their LGBT+ message of support for our campaign.

Please contact daniel.mcelhone@durhamfa.com who can talk you through our plans and book in your team for this tournament.