Posts Tagged ‘wellington’
Football Volunteer Streets Ahead
Great news that Katie Owen, a Trustee of the Street Football Aotearoa, has been awarded this month’s Wellington Community Champions Award. The award is part of an initative by local MPs and The Wellingtonian newspaper and Katie was presented with her award by the MP for Central Wellington Grant Robertson. Read Rebecca Thompson’s article by [...]
Feel the love
On Friday members of the NZ selection based in Wellington were given a touching farewell by staff and friends at Downtown Community Ministry who hosted a barbecue to celebrate the occasion. Later in the day there was a huge gathering at the Stillwaters Community for a shared meal and words of encouragement. There’s a real [...]
Wellington Volunteer Success
Congratulations to the wonderful and hard working volunteers of Street Football Aotearoa in Wellington who picked up the Sport & Leisure award at the Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards on Tuesday evening. The awards are sponsored by Wellington International Airport in partnership with The Community Trust of Wellington. The award was given in recognition of [...]
World Cup heroes help get homeless team on its way
Awesome news. New Zealand Football has been instrumental in helping Street Football Aotearoa raise funds to take a Kiwi team to this year’s Homeless World Cup. Amanda Fisher writes in the Dominion Post about the help we’ve received as All White Andy Barron meets Fabian and the rest of the Wellington players. Click on the [...]
Volunteers raising funds for homeless footballers
June 23 Press Release – Downtown Community Ministry This week, not only are we celebrating the All Whites’ achievements at the football World Cup, but it is also Volunteer Awareness Week. New Zealand has a lesser-known football team fundraising to go to a different World Cup and this team is supported entirely by volunteers. The [...]
Wellington is Streets ahead in Soccer
Kimberley Crayton-Brown of Newswire writes about the Street Soccer National Championships held in Wellington in November 2009. The tournament was held on the same day as the All Whites’ heroic victory over Bahrain that secured qualification for the 2010 World Cup. The Street Soccer competition, held earlier in the day on Queens Wharf and part [...]
Tom and DCM’s Stephanie McIntyre on Nine to Noon
Street Football Aotearoa Trustee Tom Kelly and Stephanie McIntyre, Director of partner agency Downtown Community Ministry in Wellington, talk about Homelessness and the Homeless World Cup. They spoke to Kathryn Ryan on Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon show back in April 2008 at the start of our campaign to have a New Zealand Team [...]
