The Pontefract Pirates Juniors will lead Glasshoughton Welfare out when the long-awaited ‘Show Your Support For Luce’ game finally takes place at Worsbrough Bridge on Monday night. The game is being used to raise money for Leukaemia UK and raise awareness of the symptoms of acute myeloid leukaemia – a severe form of the disease read more→
Next week marks the first anniversary of Pontefract Pirates Juniors and what a first year it has been. The Pirates Juniors have grown from having no players to having 11 in just 12 months. NLY Community Sport coaches James Grayson and Connor Rollinson have overseen the development of the Pirates Junior, a major section of read more→
Pontefract Collieries have celebrated the tenth anniversary of the beginning of their well-known Disability section, the Pontefract Pirates. This Saturday’s morning training session marked ten years since the first one way back in 2008. The Pirates were founded by Gary Smith and Trevor Waddington and have grown to be one of the biggest Disability clubs read more→
Back in September, young Nostell Miners Welfare Disability Football team player Callum Deary was just playing football in his garden. Now he’s off to play for the Mencap GB team at the European Championships in Geneva in the summer. Callum impressed enough during the trials at Crofton Community Centre on Sunday to win a place, read more→
During a difficult week for NLY Community Sport, we made sure our Disability Football sessions were a big success. We had a superb Mental Wellbeing session on Thursday The new Nostell Miners Welfare Disability Team received their tracksuits. We had the biggest turnout yet for the Pontefract Pirates Disability Juniors sessions with 12 at read more→
Eleven Pontefract Pirates players are off to the Special Olympics in the next nine days. The National Special Olympics is held every four years and it is taking place across Sheffield this year between 7th and 12th August The Pirates players are joined by players from across the region who will be competing for Yorkshire read more→
Non League Yorkshire is to promote Disability Football to a mainstream audience this season. NLY’s James Grayson and Worsbrough Bridge’s Connor Rollinson are leading the project which includes publishing news about Disability Football from across Yorkshire on the site. The pair are currently the lead coaches for Pontefract Pirates, the large adult & junior football read more→
Pontefract Pirates, the adult and junior football club for people with learning difficulties and disabilities which is associated with Pontefract Collieries, is going to be tackling mental health. The club is holding Mental Wellbeing Football Therapy sessions every Thursday from the 16th March at 12pm until 1.30pm at the Harratts Nissan Stadium, home of the read more→
