Take Tim, for example. Two years ago, he started joining in with a football session we were running on a local estate. It had always been his dream to run a football team and he shared this with me. We could have said: "Sorry, you're only a volunteer and it's a nice idea but it's never going to happen." Instead, we agreed Tim should be given the support, training and encouragement that he needed to make the football team a reality.
Two years on and we have a growing group of volunteers and Hub Athletic, the football team Tim set up, is sitting third in the local league.
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