The Prince's Trust is happy to inform you that they are now recruiting for the Get Started with Football programme with the Prince’s Trust and are partnered with Leicester City Football Club.
 
This is a great opportunity for young people to get involved in a sport coaching and leadership programme, and they will also be able to take part in a wide variety of activities and have the opportunity to meet and be trained by LCFC staff whilst building valuable communication skills and improving on their confidence and teamwork. The young people will also gain a recognised FA JFL qualification.
 
After having completed the programme, all young people will be supported by experienced Prince’s Trust staff members for a period of around three months who combined with a progression mentor will help the young person access work, education, training or volunteer work. Alternatively, they may also be pointed in the direction of another Prince’s Trust programme or a further opportunity with LCFC.
 
The taster day will be on Tuesday 27th September and the programme will run from Monday 3rd October until Friday 7th October 2016.
 
The aim of the programme goes far beyond teaching young people new skills in Football. This group challenge is designed to stretch and develop all the young people’s personal and social skills. They will need to work together, communicate, build their confidence levels in order to give instructions and carry out tasks, manage their feelings, become dependable, and put their plans into action. It is a safe environment in which the young people will be able to acquire valuable skills for further progression.
 
To refer a young person or if you have any questions contact Nutan – 07717 488 5344 or 0116 255 0400

Leicester Nirvana management committee are very pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Sockett as our new 1st team manager. Martin without doubt brings in a huge amount of non league experience and a track record of working alongside young talented players. His knowledge and experience will be required to nurture our talented pool of players and coaches.

The club undoubtedly have a rebuilding task and Martin is being brought in to work with the club, our coaches and players to assist in this process. With some exciting developments happening off the pitch for the football club it is important we continue our unprecedented developments on the pitch. 

With 4 promotions in 7 seasons and numerous cup successes, at some point our pool of talented players and management were always going to draw the attentions of the bigger clubs with some astonishing budgets.  The club's ethos is to nurture players from mini, junior and youth sections and to fully support this philosophy we work to develop better players and allow them opportunities to play at the highest level.

Martin in his new role alongside club officials will work collectively going forward to drive us on again.

Leicester Nirvana picked up their first win of the new season in the United Counties League Premier Division. Jordan Nelson netted just before the hour to give them a 1-0 victory over Wisbech at Gleneagles Avenue. 

Leicester Mercury article http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/jordan-nelson-strikes-to-bag-three-points-for-leicester-nirvana-in-ucl/story-29621080-detail/story.html 

The FA delivered a grassroots talent ID course at the weekend, just a stone’s throw from Leicester’s King Power Stadium, as the Premier League champions were taking on Manchester United in The FA Community Shield supported by McDonald’s.

Under The FA’s work to address Asian inclusion, and alongside local and regional partners, a new suite of talent ID courses are being delivered at Leicester Nirvana, one of the areas’ foremost community clubs, by scouts who work with the England teams.

Over three days, scouts, coaches and managers learn about relationship building, unconscious bias, recognising potential and the relative age effect, and many professional club technical directors already undertake this training.

It is hoped the course, which specifically targeted the Midlands’ under-represented Asian communities, will have a knock-on effect on player recruitment in those same areas.

Course tutor, ex-Wycombe midfielder and now FA talent ID manager, Steve Brown, said: “It was great to be in Leicester at the type of grassroots club where future stars are made.

“We want to embed the England DNA, which is a philosophy of how we play the game and how we develop players to be the best they can be, across the game from grassroots all the way to the England teams.

“I was really enthused by what I saw and if we can bring the professional and grassroots game closer in this way the future of the game will be in good health.”

Leicester Nirvana chairman Kirk Master added: “Leicester Nirvana are always keen to be a bridge between local communities and the game we all love.

“This snapshot of good practice gives us hope that talent identification becomes a more recognised part of the game and helps to promote inclusion, which can only be a good thing.”

Read more at http://www.thefa.com/news/my-football/falearning/2016/aug/talent-id-leicester-nirvana-steve-brown-wycombe#27uWhzbA633zgs5b.99

The success of the Saturday Development Session has meant that more and more children want to be part of the session. Therefore, in order for us to deliver a better service to your child, from the 6th August 2016, the sessions will be split into two time slots:

• Children aged 5yrs – 6yrs will be at 9.30am – 10.30am
• Children aged 7yrs, 8yrs and 9 years will be at 10.30 – 11.30am

Thank you for your continued support.