@farefereeing FA Advanced Referee Developer & Referee Coach. @stgeorgespark1 Match Event Manager @englandfootball FA safeguarding tutor

Birstall, England
Joined May 2017
Our latest CORE X training camp in collaboration with @FA, supported by @BAMREFOfficial 🤝
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Our Referee Development Team is thrilled to be partnering with the FA to tackle the under-representation of Black, Asian, and Mixed Heritage referees. 🤝 (1)
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Network & Meet CoreX members at conference24. There will be opportunities to meet all panelist’s and attendees, build your network, ask questions, meet new people, join our community. Link at the top of our page for your FREE TICKET ⬆️ ⬆️ #BAMREF #kickitout #Diversity
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🏆The FA Faith & Football series presents Vaisakhi 🙏🏽 📍@wembleystadium 📆 01-05-24 ✅ sign up now via EventBrite!
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🚨Your Game-Your Way Leicester 👉 @LCFC 🗓️ 17th April The 3rd in a series of national events from the @EnglandFootball Community of Practice & @Teamgrassroots_ Let's Talk ED&I in Grassroots Football #Network #Discuss #BestPractice 🎟️Tickets ⤵️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-game…
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Fantastic evening @daldarroch Massive well done on all your hard work. Absolute privilege to attend #Iftar @wembleystadium with communities from all over UK. @BAMERef 🙏🏾♥️⚽
A wonderful #iftar this evening @wembleystadium with over 300 people to break fast for #ramadan The call to prayer at pitchside always an iconic & deeply fulfilling moment for worshippers 🙏🏽 thank you to all who attended from across the country #ForAll ⚽️🏆🙏🏽 #faithandfootball
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The group of CORE X officials met for a training camp at the weekend. The programme, which is supported by @BAMERef, sees CORE X officials offered development opportunities to help them drive performance and become future leaders and role models for the next generation 💪
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Incredibly proud to have played a small part in the huge success of this course. 23 fully engaged candidates who will be fully supported on their new refereeing journey #grassrootsfootball – at Yorkshire and The Humber, England
This week, in partnership with @FARefereeing, we held our first #referee course as part of the ‘Reflective & Representative’ campaign. The course was a huge success, with 23 newly qualified referees welcomed in to the county. @Raj_Randhawa6 @BAMERef @kickitout @MrChrisFoy
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Our friends at @DerbyshireFA, @EssexCountyFA, @LondonFA and @SHCFA are offering fantastic bursaries to get more people from historically underrepresented communities into #refereeing ⚽ Contact them to find out more. 📨
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Becoming a #referee can help you acquire skills for your #career 🗣 Build #confidence 🙌 #Leadership skills 🤝 #Teamwork Contact your County FA to find referee courses near you! 📩
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My colleague @MinGupta was also out at @MiltonKeynes_RA last night at another @BerksandBucksFA Referee Celebration evening, presenting newly qualified referees with their certificates and badges. Premier League referee Graham Scott was guest speaker- sounded like a great event!
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The next generation of Black and Brown officials bi-monthly CPD meeting online with their Referee coaches in Mike Riley & Mick Russell, PGMOL Programme Manager Arran Williams and supported by BAMREF Vice Chair Aji Ajibola #COREX #NEXTGENERAENATIONS
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🆕 We've teamed up with @FARefereeing to provide a bursary for aspiring Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage referees. The bursary programme has been developed to support individuals who may be facing barriers to getting involved in refereeing. Find out more and apply here 👇

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Our final post for this countdown towards 2024 celebrates the first Referee Recognition Awards, which took place earlier this year! Watch the highlights below and congratulations again to all our winners. 🏅 buff.ly/48bTWLP
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As we come to the end of 2023, we're looking at some of the Referee Development highlights throughout the year. First up, we take a look at the highlights of the RDO Conference buff.ly/3TGTbpK
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Min Gupta retweeted
🗣️ "Have we been pretty poor at it? I would say yes, we probably have. That means we've got an opportunity to get better at it". 👏 @MinGupta highlights the importance of EDI, and why it should be embedded across all roles throughout Sport.
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Min Gupta retweeted
🚨 New Episode 🚨 🗣️ Minority Groups 🧠 Mental toughness ❓Why is Diversity within roles so important? @MinGupta is the next guest on The YesRef Podcast. The chaps discuss numerous important topics such as EDI, Diversity & much more! Watch/Listen ▶️ linktr.ee/yesref
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Min Gupta retweeted
Another great night of referee development and partnership working with a local referee association, thanks for the warm welcome. 🙏 – at Birstall, England
Many thanks to @BerksandBucksFA Referee Training Officer Minesh Gupta for attending our Society meeting tonight to outline the exciting new recruitment strategy. Looking forward to assisting him with the mentoring programme and welcoming new refs to CDRS.
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#TeamCoreX It couldn't have started better! But this is just the beginning 👊
#Changeishere! FA, PGMOL and BAMREF collaboration to invest and work with 20 of the top talented officials from Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage backgrounds with enhanced coaching and development to improve the diversity in refereeing. BAMREF welcomes CORE X
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Alongside @FARefereeing, @EssexReferees are offering bursaries for the FA Referees Course to historically underrepresented ethnic communities, to create a more inclusive refereeing workforce across Essex To register your interest, click below ⤵️ 🔗 bit.ly/3Q2UvQ8
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