{"id":3856,"date":"2019-06-09T21:18:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T21:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2019-09-03T13:26:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T13:26:52","slug":"shepway-sports-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/united-kingdom\/shepway-sports-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"SHEPWAY SPORTS TRUST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/shepwaysportstrustlogo_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3857\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"118\" src=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/THREE-HILLS-SPORTS-PARK-LOGO.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/THREE-HILLS-SPORTS-PARK-LOGO.jpg 428w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/THREE-HILLS-SPORTS-PARK-LOGO-300x83.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><figcaption><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.threehillssportspark.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"THREE HILLS SPORTS PARK (opens in a new tab)\">THREE HILLS SPORTS PARK<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Update: 31\/08\/19<\/p>\n<p>A charity match was the ceremony that twined Three Hills Sports Park pitch with Flanders Peace Fields, Messines, Belgium, site of the 1914 First World War Christmas Truces.\u00a0 A Shepway Sports Trust team played a game against a team representing the Kent Refugee Action Network.\u00a0 The game was played in the name of Walter Tull; <b>Walter Tull<\/b>\u00a0was both a professional footballer player and a soldier during World War One.\u00a0<b>Walter<\/b>\u00a0had to give up his career as a footballer to help out in the war, but he then became recognised as the first black officer to lead white British soldiers into battle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Press-Release-Shepway-Sports-Trust-Peace-Pitch-in-Folkestone-Tuesday-3rd-September.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>A PEACE PITCH IN FOLKESTONE PRESS RELEASE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/walter-tull-images_300\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/WALTER-TULL-IMAGES_300-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/peace-match-team-lineup-w_300\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PEACE-MATCH-TEAM-LINEUP-W_300-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/kran-before-match\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3961\" src=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KRAN-BEFORE-MATCH--300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KRAN-BEFORE-MATCH--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KRAN-BEFORE-MATCH--768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KRAN-BEFORE-MATCH--1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KRAN-BEFORE-MATCH-.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/00000\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3962\" src=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/00000-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Peace Riders arrived at Folkestone&#8217;s Three Hill Sports Park at 7.45am where Paul Cooper, NCFA, Director, presented Laurence Hickmott, CEO, Shepway Sports Trust, with a Peace Poppy Ball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Laurance-Hickmott_400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Laurance-Hickmott_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laurance, said,\u00a0\u201c we are honoured to be working with the NCFA on this important piece of work. It is fitting that we can host a Peace Field at Three Hills Sports Park in Folkestone in memory of the great Walter Tull. We were proud to welcome the Peace Poppy Ball to kick start our own Peace Field project.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: 31\/08\/19 A charity match was the ceremony that twined Three Hills Sports Park pitch with Flanders Peace Fields, Messines, Belgium, site of the 1914 First World War Christmas Truces.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3973,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/3973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}