Blackpool FC Community Trust column: High interest in our sessions and ensuring schools are kitted out

We now deliver five sessions each week and all information is on our website.

One of the biggest challenges has been the fact that we have to take pre-bookings and cannot accept cash payments on the night.

This is because of the Covid-19 track and trace system and because we have to restrict the numbers at each organised football session to 30, in line with FA guidance.

The 30 includes staff and because of these restrictions we cannot accept any walk-ins.

The Senior Seasiders walking football group has been a great support in pulling all this together and maintaining contact with many of our participants.

Our newest venture is the launch of our Forces Football sessions. These take place every Thursday at PlayFootball on Garstang Road West.

They are available to members of our community who have served with our armed forces and want the opportunity to play football and meet other serving and/or ex-forces personnel.

Another session we deliver for ex-servicemen and women is our Gardening Club, delivered at the Arboretum in Moor Park.

We have taken responsibility to maintain the area dedicated to forces personnel.

Last year we developed an area for Blackpool FC players who were lost in World War Two.

We have also launched a host of new physical activities for adults, including some health walks and free keep-fit sessions for ladies who have graduated from our FitFans weight management programme.

The sessions have been implemented to allow these participants to maintain their weight loss and continue to meet friends from FitFans.

Our current FitFans sessions have also been very successfully delivered at Bloomfield Road.

It has been great to allow fans safe access to our great stadium, which we are utilising as our venue to host the free weekly workshops and fitness sessions.

This week we have also given away a number of our playing kits from last season.

With the club now having new kit supplied by Puma, we have had to purchase new uniforms for staff and students, as well as new playing kits for all our representative squads.

This has resulted in us gifting full playing kits to Park Special School and Armfield Academy, meaning our great tangerine kits being utilised even further.

We still have a lot of playing kit left and many staff have given back tracksuits, T-shirts and jumpers, so we will now work with local charities to get this clothing to people in most need.

Anyone who is seeking further information on BFCCT can telephone 01253 348 691, visit the website at www.bfcct.co.uk or follow BFCCT on social media.