Hi all! Welcome to Friends of Pakati once more
The football team I have supported & followed since I was a small boy is, as you will already know, called Scunthorpe United. It is nicknamed ‘The Iron’ because of the Iron & Steelworks which dominate the town in many ways.
This included either reading the football scores in the Guardian Weekly or listening to the sports bulletins on BBC World Service when I worked in Zimbabwe (1989-1991) and in Botswana (1995-1997).
As you will already know, I taught at Pakati Secondary school in Zimbabwe, and following a return visit in 2018, I started Friends of Pakati soon afterwards.
In the years since then, my two passions have joined together many times, largely thanks to the generosity of people connected to the football club. This includes a great number of Iron fans who have supported us in different ways, plus many people who work for the club, including a past Chairman, owners, managers, board members, backroom staff, mascots, programme & raffle ticket sellers, not to forget local media organisations & politicians who have regularly shared our social media presence.
Myself, and all at both Pakati schools & the local community, are very grateful for the support, and all appreciate the continued efforts to help👏👏👏
The club have a Community Day each season, with teduced prices, invitations to local youth & grassroots community football clubs, tickets for military personnel, and usually a mixture of stalls for fans to visit & chat with.
It will likely have a variety of stalls including supporters groups such as the Iron Trust, Iron Bru, Iron Hour, maybe local community groups, military stalls, food stalls, voluntary organisations as well as the club shop. Friends of Pakati will be there too, just as we were on the Open Day back in July 2024.
As previously, we will be selling merchandise to boost our funds, and we will also have donated items for raffle /sale/auction. Already there is a signed framed shirt promised from the 2011/12 season, and the club have promised some small items too.
We are also looking for football shirt donations to either sell or auction, similar to what we were given back in 2019…
…we will accept shirts of ANY team. I will be at the game on the 8th March & you can donate to Friends of Pakati then, or even on the Community Day. Please email us at friendsofpakati@gmail.com if you want to post any shirts to me.
We will have a collection bucket on the day for cash donations, but our two main fundraising pages are always open…
http://paypal.me/friendsofpakati and http://gofundme.com/Friends-of-pakati
Please help us get power to the schools, & then wifi, so that the students can make the most of our donated IT. THANK YOU!!!👍👏👏😎
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