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Community Projects
The Museum as a Community Space
Over the past year the National Football Museum has been developing excellent links with a number of community and voluntary groups in Preston
The National Football Museum aims to engage all members of its local community, widening access to culture and sport for individuals from all backgrounds, particularly those who are socially excluded. This work allows the Museum to contribute to the Government's wider priorities on social inclusion, regeneration and community cohesion.
The Museum provides a comfortable and safe space in which members of the local community can come together and take part in a variety of activities. Some of the groups which utilise the museum's facilities are:
Maa Aur Bacha
Maa Aur Bacha are a Muslim women's mother and toddler group who meet regularly at the Museum to take part in a variety of activities, including Islamic arts, aromatherapy sessions and yoga.
Sure Start
The Museum has provided special facilities and services to the Sure Start programme. (Sure Start is the Government's programme to deliver the best start in life for every child). They have particularly made use of the Museum's new under 7's activity area the Footy Fun Zone'.
Women's Union Group
This is a multicultural group of women who meet at the Museum. The Museum worked in conjunction with this group and the Global Education Centre in Preston on their latest community project, a Multi Faith Celebration Day. This event, held at the Museum, involved women from a number of faith communities taking part in activities to encourage understanding of each other's religions and day-to-day lives. Discussion of football was also part of the event!
Other community groups who have benefited from the Museum's facilities include:
Gingerbread Lone Parents Group
Greater Deepdale Partnership
The Muslim Forum
Sport and Spice Asian Heritage Women's Sports Group
Grandparents Matter
Brookfield Health Visitors Group
Sole Street Health Visitors Group
Comments from Participants
We work in areas of high social and economic deprivation and it is often very difficult to find suitable venues for our activities. The National Football Museum offers a quality, accessible and friendly environment for our families to visit and we feel that this has been a very important element in the success of groups who meet at the venue'.
Christine Nuttall, Preston East Children's Centre, Sure Start