A Word With Denise
I’m absolutely bursting with pride to have been at the helm for the past six years. When I joined back in 2010, I had a team meeting with all the Community staff at that time and said that over the next five years we are going to achieve some spectacular things together. Yet, I don’t think we could have predicted just how remarkable the growth has been. The pride is for the staff and also for our participants on the programmes. They have to make some big journeys during their time with Everton in the Community to get them from the most fragile positions to getting help and then turning their lives around. I look back at 1988 when the Community programmes were first established. The budget at the time was £6,000, there were two staff and as many Wagon Wheels as you could carry to take to local schools! That was what the Football League was pushing out at the time. Now in 2016 we have over 100 staff, we have 60 social programmes and we’re at the heart of all communities across Merseyside.
It’s been an amazing journey hasn’t it… and it continues to be so.
It certainly has. We’ve been able to develop programmes that were not present within football so we’ve been very bold and courageous in projects that we’ve taken on because the community have needed us, they’ve needed our support and the demand for that is still increasing. We’ve also seen the development of the Free School and we’ve got the Community Hub, which will open this month, which we’re really excited about.
The Community Hub on Spellow Lane looks fantastic…
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