Wolves Aid Keeps Local Charity Afloat

Wolves Chairman Steve Morgan recently handed over a £5,000 cheque on behalf of Wolves Aid to representatives of Westcroft Community Foundation.

The Chairman was at the Club to attend the first ever Wolves Community Trust Annual Reception, which aims to share with local charities and businesses some of Wolves’ official charity’s most significant achievement throughout the past year.

Westcroft Community Foundation was one such charity; acting as the charitable arm of Westcroft Sports and Vocational College it supports disabled pupils of their school as well as many other young people in the local community.

They contacted Wolves Aid at the start of this year and applied for a grant to replace their old and tired sporting equipment for their various activity programmes.

Wolves Aid, part of Wolves Community Trust, responded to their application by granting them the £5,000 in order to replace their equipment, with the money supplying PE equipment, football goals and nets, and netball goals as well as sailing equipment such as kayaks, paddles, canoes and buoyancy aids.

Having Steve Morgan hand over the cheque was especially apt given his relationship with Wolves Aid, with his own organisation, The Morgan Foundation, donating around £100,000 every year to Wolves Aid to be granted to organisations in need in and around Wolverhampton.

Sue Cockhill, Charity Administrator for Westcroft Community Foundation, said of the grant, “When I called our sailing instructor Wendy Shipley to tell her that the grant had been awarded she cheered and said that she was on the water as we spoke, bailing out our existing boat, so it was a huge relief!

“It’s going to make a huge, sustainable difference to Westcroft pupils”.

Westcroft is the first special school designated as a specialist sports college, and they provide sporting activities for both their pupils and those from other special schools around the city, with activities running during school time, weekends and school holidays.

Their aim is to promote recreational, leisure, sport, educational and training opportunities for people of all ages who, by reason of youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or economic and social circumstances, have need of such facilities with the object of improving their quality of life.