00:00 The Wolves End Boys Club officially opened in 1904 and since then the club has changed
00:07 massively. From new football pitches to the building being torn down after it was damaged,
00:12 it has changed a lot. And even now more changes have been made as the Peter Olsen Community
00:17 Hub has been opened.
00:20 So the centre, or the hub, the Peter Olsen Community Hub is a game changer for the club.
00:27 We've been working entirely for four years to get to this point and what it does is it
00:33 allows us to offer more activities than just football here at Kirkley Park.
00:37 So we're hoping that we are going to be able to deliver classes around yoga, Zumba, some
00:43 martial arts, multi-sports type activities for all ages through the day, night times,
00:50 evenings, after school clubs. We want to work with local schools, local partners to really
00:56 make it a community asset.
00:57 Whilst the community hub will be used for sporting classes, it can also be used as a
01:01 centre for functions so it offers a lot more to the community of Wolves End.
01:06 But of course a big part of the club is the football and as we saw the girls teams training
01:11 on the pitch you can tell how much the club means to them. And with the support from the
01:15 lionesses becoming even bigger, Girls Foundation lead and coach Kyra said that you can see
01:20 the impact it is having on grassroots football.
01:23 Yeah definitely, I've been here for five years now and I think in that time it's really grown.
01:28 I think that's because the access is better as well, but I've just seen it on TV, seen
01:33 the success and getting rid of that stereotype because they're successful on TV has really
01:39 helped and you see girls from eight coming when they're really young or girls starting
01:43 when they're 13 so the older girls you can definitely see that they've been impacted
01:47 by the lionesses on TV.
01:49 Both John and Kyra see the hub as a really positive thing and believe it will be something
01:54 great for the community of Wolves End and beyond.
01:58 It provides a safe space to come, to be, to meet new people, to socialise, to feel part
02:03 of something and belong. It's really important for the people of Wolves End that they feel
02:09 as though they can come and use it, be part of it and help shape the future of the hub.
02:13 It's a really nice, really impressive building. Obviously we used to have a building there
02:17 that wasn't at that size or that scale so to see it up is really, really good, really
02:22 modern and you can see how it's going to be really effective for people in the area. I
02:26 think we're quite central so it can really, really help a lot of people just off the coast
02:32 road so a lot of people will come in hopefully and you can see it being used for not just
02:36 football as well, other activities and different age ranges as well.
02:40 I think having something like this isn't, like we said before, it's not just football
02:45 but having that then can bring people in for football as well and their parents will enjoy
02:51 it more as well so they'll be more keen to come down and it's somewhere they can socialise.
02:55 A big part of grassroots football is making friends so somewhere like that just to go
02:59 and sit would be really beneficial.
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