Torquay United AFC is backing the NSPCC’s campaign to raise awareness of safeguarding standards in sport.
Tackling these issues and encouraging positive parental involvement in youth sports is the aim of the NSPCC’s ‘Parents In Sport Week 2021’, which runs nationwide between 4th-11th October.
For the past five years, the NSPCC and its Children Protection in Sport Unit have delivered our annual Parents in Sport Week campaign, which aims to ensure parents have access to the right resources, tools and information to feel confident their children can enjoy sport safely.
This year’s campaign focuses on giving parents the information and tools they need to spot potential concerns and to speak out about them, with a free eLearning course launched to help enable parents to spotting abuse.
Torquay United AFC Assistant Manager Aaron Downes was amongst those to give his backing to the project.
“Torquay United wholeheartedly supports this initiative from the NSPCC,” began Downes.
“We feel its massively important that parents feel comfortable that their children are safe and secure in a sporting environment, and the NSPCC is helping them do that, by giving them pointers and tips, to spot any potential signs to look out for.
“In turn, it will keep all our children in sport safe and secure, so that they can go and enjoy what we all do sport for.”
To find out more regarding this year’s campaign and to take part, please click here.
To demonstrate the Club’s commitment to this campaign and to help raise awareness further, Torquay United AFC, in conjunction with Sport Torbay, will be giving away 100 Family Stand tickets for a parent and their child to attend our home fixture against King’s Lynn on Saturday, 23rd October 2021.
Parents can either claim these tickets online here by selecting promotional package ‘NSPCC TUAFC FREE TICKETS’ or alternatively phone the Club on 01803 328666 (Monday – Friday 10am – 4pm). Please note that these tickets will be issued on a first come, first served, and must be purchased by Friday 22nd October, as none of these tickets will be available on a matchday,
Jim Parker, Chairman of Sport Torbay, had this to say:
“What a brilliant initiative from the NSPCC and what brilliant support from Torquay United.
“Providing a safe, healthy and happy environment for the Bay’s youngsters is a must and top priority for every sports club in the Bay. United’s support will help to ram home that message and show how much playing a key role at the heart of the community means to the club.”