Accrington Web - Home Team Heroes

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npower are launching a new project to help get football clubs more involved in their local community and give fans the power to decide how the clubs should do that by giving them the choice of three projects for their club- each fronted by a first team player. All projects are aimed at the children and whichever project get the most votes, gets the go ahead.

Each Football League club has a project, so fans only have to vote for a project that will benefit their own community.

This £2m Home Team Heroes initiative - which will be run over the course of npower’s three year sponsorship with the Football League - will ask fans from all 72 clubs in England & Wales to vote on how this money should be spent.

The three projects for Stanley are:

- A 'respect' training workshop for ten year-olds run in schools with a focus on team work and citizenship
- Football skills training for 4 - 6 year-olds run by the club's community coaches
- Improvement/clean up of a local park into a more football friendly space

The three projects for Stanley can be seen & voted on here, they are being lead by Sean Hessey, Andrew Proctor and Dean Winnard.

We have until 31st December to decide and then each Football League club will work with npower to implement the project the fans have selected, before the end of the season. The Club will be supported in this initiative by The Football League Trust which oversees the League's community and youth development programmes