Bristol Rovers backing anti-racist campaign

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Friday, October 23, 2009
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Bristol Rovers are staging a string of events at tomorrow's game against Yeovil at the Memorial Stadium in support of the national anti-racist campaign Kick It Out's "One Game, One Community" initiative.

The events will start at 1.45pm with a five-a-side demonstration from Bristol Central Football Club, a football project that caters for children in the St Paul's and Easton areas.

The players will then take to the field sporting Kick It Out t-shirts and accompanied by youngsters from Ashley Down Junior School.

At half-time there will be a parade featuring members of Bristol Rovers Ability FC, Ashley Down pupils, Bristol Central and the club's Centre of Excellence.

The Centre of Excellence, which has around 120 players from a variety of backgrounds and ethnicities, will be holding a bucket collection at the game to raise money to help send the Under-15 squad off to take part in a tournament next summer.

Rovers secretary Rod Wesson, who has organised the day's events, said: "Over the past seasons we have developed a well-earned reputation for approaching this activity with positive open minds, and this time around we have decided to showcase some of the ways in which we as a club put into action our firmly held beliefs and policies.

"The club has have a philosophy of inclusiveness, equality of opportunity and promotion of harmony, and we will be doing all we can to develop these relationships further into long-term sustainable ones for the benefit of all."

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