Lisburn Distillery Cross-Community Perpetual Cup.

In the autumn of each year Lisburn Distillery hosts its’ Schools’ Primary Six - 7-a-side Tournament for the Lisburn Distillery Cross-Community Perpetual Cup.

The 2008 winners were Fort Hill Primary School

The 2009 winners were Ballymacash Primary School

Watch out soon for details of the 2010 event.  

050810 – National Autistic Society - Lisburn Distillery’s nominated charity for 2010-2011

The National Autistic Society Northern Ireland will be our club charity of the season for 2010/11.

It is the only charity permitted to undertake matchday collections at New Grosvenor during the 2010-2010 season and they will be collecting this Saturday when Lisburn Distillery take on Glentoran in the Carling Premiership

The National Autistic Society is the UK's leading charity for people affected by autism. In Northern Ireland over 17,000 have autism, if you count their immediate family autism impacts on the lives of over 68,000 people. Despite this autism is still relatively unknown and misunderstood, which means that many of these people do not get the level of help, support and understanding they need.

The National Autistic Society Northern Ireland provides information advice and support, they campaign and lobby for lasting positive change for those affected by autism. Their services include family support, education advice, an outreach service for adults, befriending schemes and social programmes for people with autism. They have 11 branches providing local sources of information and support.

The National Autistic Society Northern Ireland works across Northern Ireland to provide a range of services to children and adults with autism and their families and carers. In order to provide these services they are reliant on our fundraising activities and the generosity of the Northern Ireland public – we hope to support them at New Grosvenor this season.

You can find out more on the National Autistic Society’s website by clicking here.

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120910 Thanks from the National Autistic Society

The National Autistic Society Northern Ireland (our nominated charity for the 2010-2011 season) raised £433 from their collection on the opening day of the season at the Lisburn Distillery v Glentoran match.

They have extended their thanks to all those who contributed and Lisburn Distillery Football Club do likewise – thanks again to everyone on this achievement.

200910 – Coming soon – the Schools’ P6 Lisburn Distillery Cross Community Perpetual Cup

Lisburn Distillery Community Relations’ Officer Stevie Nutt has confirmed that the club will be holding its’ third annual Schools’ Primary Six Cross-Community Perpetual Cup at New Grosvenor on Wednesday 13 October 2010.

All support welcome – further details to follow.   

230910 – Community and Business Workshop update

With support from the EU funded Football For All Project, Donegal Celtic Football Club hosted a Community and Business Workshop on Monday 20th September 2010, supported by Chairmen and Community Relations Officers from Linfield, Crusaders, Lisburn Distillery, Crumlin United and Bangor football clubs.

Whites’ chairman Bobby Hanna, and Community Relations Officer Stevie Nutt attended the event and are pictured below with other delegates.

The workshop highlighted how mainstreaming a community focus at the heart of a football club’s business strategy can encourage partnerships with local authorities and commercial sponsors. Support from the EU funded anti-sectarian Football For All project was offered to all the clubs to help them with community audits and the development of new Community Relations strategies and funding plans.

You can find more information on the workshop along with further photographs by clicking here.

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031010 – Primary Six Cup Line-Up confirmed

The  Schools’ Primary Six - 7-a-side Tournament for the Lisburn Distillery Cross-Community Perpetual Cup will be held on Wednesday 13th October 2010.

The following Primary schools will be taking part;

Finaghy, St Aloysius, Tonagh, St Lukes, St Marks, Ballymacash, St Annes and Killowen.

Last year’s winners were Ballymacash and the day promises to be a fun and action-packed one for all those taking part.

131010 – UNITE AGAINST HATE weekend

This weekend, 15-17th October, is the UNITE AGAINST HATE weekend and Lisburn Distillery Football Club will be participating in the campaign at Saturday’s Carling Premiership game against Dungannon Swifts.

The UNITE AGAINST HATE banner is already on display at the ground and the players and Youth Academy players will be sporting UNITE AGAINST HATE T-shirts or bibs on Saturday.

The Irish Football Association’s EU Funded Football For All programme fully endorses the UNITE AGAINST HATE campaign. That programme seeks to make the sport of football safe, welcoming and inclusive and therefore intolerance and hatred toward those with a different skin colour, religious belief, sexual orientation, disability or any other difference should not be accepted in our society – Lisburn Distillery likewise endorses the campaign and welcomes everyone to a safe football environment at New Grosvenor Stadium.

You can find out more about UNITE AGAINST HATE by clicking here.

View more pictures of our commitment to the  UNITE AGAINST HATE weekend by clicking here.

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Review of the 2010 Lisburn Distillery Primary 6 Cross-Community Perpetual Cup

Congratulations to the winners Ballymacash Primary School who retained the trophy for a second year   

 Lisburn Distillery Football Club held its’ third annual Primary 6 Cross-Community Cup at the New Grosvenor Stadium, Ballyskeagh on 13th October 2010.

Six schools entered the competition from the Lisburn City Council area - Ballymacash, St Annes, St Lukes, Finaghy, St Aloysius, and Killowen primary schools all entered teams The standard of football and behaviour from the boys and girls was excellent. The six teams were competing for the Lisburn Distillery Perpetual Cup with the eventual winners being Ballymacash primary school .

A special mention also goes to Josh from Ballymacash Primary School who was the winner of the Player of the Tournament award.

The club wish to thank The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Lisburn City Council, Alderman Paul Porter, Lisa Rickett  from the IFA Community Relations department and Lisburn Distillery first  team manager Tommy Wright for coming along to show their support and present the trophies and medals to all the teams.

We would also like to thank Lisburn City Council Good Community Relations, the Irish Football Association and Ironside Trophies and also  Sainsburys and Tescos for their kind sponsorship of this event .
 
  Finally a big thanks must go to first team player Stuart Thompson and the supporters of Lisburn Distillery Football Club for their help in organising the event on the day. And a big thank-you also  goes to Ged Irwin ( Chairman of the Lisburn Distillery Youth Academy) for his help in organizing this event.
 
 

Stevie Nutt

Lisburn Distillery Community Relations Officer

251110 – Charity collection this Saturday at New Grosvenor

The National Autistic Society Northern Ireland (our nominated charity for the 2010-2011 season) will be collecting at this Saturday’s Carling Premiership game between Lisburn Distillery and Linfield.

It is the only charity permitted to undertake matchday collections at New Grosvenor during the 2010-2010 season.

On the opening day of the season, they raised £433 from a similar collection and we hope that we can help them once again on Saturday in their fund-raising efforts.

In addition to the previous posts above, you can find out more  about their work on the National Autistic Society’s website by clicking here.

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281110 – Thanks from the National Autistic Society

The National Autistic Society Northern Ireland (our nominated charity for the 2010-2011 season) raised more that £400 from yesterday’s match collection before the Lisburn Distillery v Linfield match.

A confirmed figure will appear in due course.

They have extended their thanks to all those who contributed and Lisburn Distillery Football Club do likewise – thanks again to everyone who attended the match and supported the collection.

Well done.

You can find out more  about their work on the National Autistic Society’s website by clicking here.

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UNITE AGAINST HATE picture gallery

All images copyright Stevie Nutt - reproduced with permission and thanks

290111 - Half- time soccer

The kids from Castle Juniors (blue kit) and Holywood (green kit) put on a show in their half-time game on the day of the Lisburn  Distillery v Glentoran Carling Premiership game.

Here is some of the action;

All images copyright Jonathan Irwin - reproduced with permission and thanks

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200311 – Upper Ardoyne FC

The club and  Lisburn Distillery Community Officer Stevie Nutt were delighted to welcome the players and officials of Upper Ardoyne Football Club to New Grosvenor last week (12th March 2011).

The group are pictured below with Whites' first team players Philip Simpson, Glenn Ferguson and Pat McShane.

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110411 – Whites walk in Mayor’s parade

Lisburn Distillery walked through Lisburn in the Mayor’s Parade on Saturday. The Co-Operative Insurance Cup was paraded through the city on an enjoyable day for all concerned

Our thanks to everyone who took part and represented the club – the four first team players, the  Academy coaches and players who took part along with  Martin,  Daryl, Les and George.

Thanks also to Ged Irwin who organised the club’s participation in the event.

300511 – National Autistic Society says “Thank you”

The club’s nominated charity for the 2010-11 season was the National Autistic Society Northern Ireland (NASNI).

They have thanked us greatly for the club and supporters’ support over the last season.  Over £990 was raised for the charity thanks to the generosity of all supporters from the collections at the home games against Linfield, Cliftonville and Glentoran.
 
Lisburn Distillery Community Relations Officer Stevie Nutt is pictured with the certificate that the NASNI presented to the club.

Well done everyone.

Image copyright Ashley Wragg - reproduced with permission and thanks

181211 Ballynahinch Youth Visit

We were delighted to host a large party of girls and boys from Ballynahinch Youth at yesterday’s Carling Premiership game against Carrick Rangers.

The visit was organised in line with our ongoing Communities Relations programme and after the pre-match photograph below the group was shown round the New Grosvenor Memorabilia exhibition.

It was a very enjoyable visit; the group were a credit to themselves and their club and whilst the result on the pitch went against Lisburn Distillery the youngsters gave the team real vocal encouragement. We hoped they enjoyed their visit here too.  

We also thank our players, Grant Gardiner, Aaron Traynor, Mark Patton and Scott Davidson who held a half-time Question and Answer session with the boys and girls from Ballynahinch.

You can find out more about Ballynahinch Youth on their website.

The club welcomes similar visits from other groups – to find out more email us here.

                                                     Image copyright David Hunter - reproduced with permission and thanks

160112 - New Community Relations Officer

Lisburn Distillery Football Club is delighted to announce the appointment of Ged Irwin as the club's new Community Relations Officer.

Ged (pictured top right)  who previously held the role of Academy Chairman took up his new role in December 2011 when his first duty was to welcome 50 young players plus the coaches of Ballynahinch Youth FC.

Speaking to Lisburn-Distillery.net Ged said that: “I am delighted with this new role within the club and hope to continue the good work started by my predecessor Stevie Nutt.”

He added; “Community Relations for Premier League clubs is now an important part of the League's domestic licensing criteria. We are guided by UEFA's 10-point plan which outlines the measures that club's can take to stamp out racism in football.

Beyond the Licensing aspect, I look at my role as a chance to promote the club through organised trips from schools, youth clubs and youth football clubs to watch one of the first team games at New Grosvenor. It is also our intention to reinstate our popular Primary 6 Schools Cup last held in October 2010.

I also feel that small-sided football matches between our Academy players at home games is an ideal way to introduce our younger players to Irish League football. Lisburn Distillery has the reputation for being a friendly, family club which is something that gives us a good foundation to build on for the future.”

If you would like to contact Ged regarding school or youth club visits please email him on this link.