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Streetkick comes home to Sharrow Festival

Come and meet Football Unites workers and volunteers at Sharrow Festival on Saturday 8th July, and maybe play on the Streetkick pitch which recently returned from a World Cup tour of Germany. The festival…

04 Jul 2006 / News /

Wykopmy Rasizm Ze Stadionow

A Polish CD of anti-racist football-themed songs mostly by punk bands. Includes a cover of 'You'll Never Walk Alone'. Put together by organisations including 'Nigdy Wiecej', the 'Never Again' association which…

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Sharrow Festival

This Saturday, 14th July, FURD will be out in force with Streetkick, a penalty shoot-out and an information stall, at the annual Sharrow Festival in Mount Pleasant Park, behind Sharrow Lane, Sheffield, between…

10 Jul 2001 / News /

FURD backs the bid!

Football Unites is backing Sheffield's bid to be one of the host cities if England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup finals is successful. Sophina Hanif, a volunteer with FURD, was part of the delegation…

15 Dec 2009 / News /

Vibes & Unity festival on 17th September

You are invited to Devonshire Green in Sheffield city centre on Saturday, 17th September, 1-4pm, to join the 3rd 'Vibes & Unity' event organised by FURD's young volunteers. The…

14 Sep 2011 / News /

Sound Kickers wow the crowds at Tramlines festival

30 young people from the FURD Sound Kickers project took part in a 90 minute showcase performances at Tramlines, Sheffield's free music festival, on 25th July. They showed off their musical…

26 Jul 2011 / News /

FURD set to celebrate ten years of campaigning

Football Unites, Racism Divides are to mark our tenth anniversary with a Gala Evening on Friday 11th November 2005. The date is outside the FARE week of action due to the timing of Ramadan this year. The…

13 Apr 2005 / News /

Vibes and Unity event

FURD is planning a Vibes and Unity event for Saturday 1st May 2010, on Devonshire Green in Sheffield, from 1-4pm.The aim of this community-wide event is to encourage young people to use their vote in the…

14 Apr 2010 / News /

Vibes and Unity!

Young people from Football Unites' V volunteers scheme are organising an exciting free city-centre event in Sheffield this Saturday, 23rd May, designed to encourage everyone to use their vote in the June…

19 May 2009 / News /

Double life of stadium announcer

Football Unites, Racism Divides are holding the second ‘Chantwriters’ event at The Workstation, Paternoster Row, Sheffield, on Saturday 16th October, as part of the national anti-racism week of action in…

10 Oct 2004 / News /

One Sheffield Many Cultures and Community Day this weekend

FURD will be taking part in two big public displays of unity this weekend, and everyone is invited to join us. 'One Sheffield, Many Cultures' is a free family festival celebrating Sheffield's unity…

15 May 2012 / News /

Wigs unite!

Thursday, June 12: Well the FURD Geneva group are on their way back to Sheffield just as our Austria team fly out to Innsbruck. The Geneva team were running football games on a ready constructed mini…

13 Jun 2008 / News /

Displaced communities the winners

A weekend of friendship through football at the Unity Cup Festival in Sheffield came to an exciting climax. The national festival, organised by Kick It Out in partnership with Football Unites, brought 20…

24 Jul 2006 / News /

Conflict resolution DVD

KNIFE crime, gang violence and bullying are being put under the spotlight by a group of young film-makers at FURD. The young people are all volunteers with the Youth Against Conflict group based at FURD, who…

12 Nov 2008 / News /

FURD worker and volunteer go to work with orphans in DR Congo

Football Unites coach Desbon Bushiri has flown out to the Democratic Republic of Congo to help the Football Between Communities project that he established there last year to organise a big festival to bring…

01 Sep 2008 / News /

Stars turn out in force for Football Unites’ tenth anniversary bash

Football Unites, Racism Divides celebrated its tenth anniversary with a star-studded event at Bramall Lane on Friday 11th November. The number of high-profile guests who attended showed how much the project…

14 Nov 2005 / News /

Red, White and Black

This article forms part of a fanzine 'The Lowdown' written for England fans in Eindhoven for Euro 2000 by the Football Supporters Association and produced by the Sunday Mirror.

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Tribute to Ann Wilson

FURD is extremely sad to learn of the death of Ann Wilson. Ann was a key factor in bringing Sheffield United and the local community together, and was chair of both the Sheffield Partnership and the influential…

02 Mar 2021 / News /

Arthur Wharton

A Date-by-date historical timeline, showing the major events in Arthur Wharton's life.