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Football Unites on BBC Radio
A discussion on BBC Radio Sheffield following the racist abuse England players suffered during their international friendly against Spain. Howard Holmes, the coordinator of Football Unites is interviewed.
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BBC Your Game - Sheffield
A 5-minute film of the Sheffield heat of the BBC Your Game football tournament held at Sheffield United's Academy in April 2006, which Football Unites helped to organise. The winners went on to compete in…
Library / DVD
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Arthur Wharton; Let's Kick Racism
Audio cassette recording of radio features: Side A: Arthur Wharton on BBC World Service programme 'Outlook';Side B:Let's Kick Racism - BBC Radio 5
Library / Audio cassette
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FURD’s work with refugees and asylum-seekers features on BBC Football Focus
FURD's work to support refugees and asylum-seekers is the subject of a feature shown on BBC Football Focus on Saturday 21st May 2022 and on the BBC Sport website.
24 May 2022 / News /
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Looking Back to Arthur
30-minute recording of a BBC Radio 4 programme about Arthur Wharton, broadcast on 4th December 1998
Library / Audio cassette
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Stars turn out to give racism the boot
The BBC website has an article reporting on FURD´s very successful event as part of Anti-racist Action Week. The event, in Tudor Square Sheffield, featured a 3-a-side football tournament where local teams…
21 Oct 2002 / News /
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BBC Radio Sheffield interview with FURD staff and clients following the riots
It was good to have our staff and service user represent FURD on BBC Sheffield's Sunday morning faith and ethics show on 18th August 2024.
22 Aug 2024 / News /
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FURD women’s football features in BBC film
FURD's teams playing in the women's open age and walking football categories of the FA People's Cup 5-a-side tournament recently caught the eye of a BBC film crew. The camera crew has since been…
26 Mar 2019 / News /
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A Question of Streetkick!
Snooker star, and BBC TV ´Question of Sport´ personality John Parrott, paid a visit to FURD´s Streetkick game on Saturday, 27 April. Taking a break from commentating on the World Championships at The…
29 Apr 2002 / News /
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Arthur Wharton; Ooh Ah Showab Khan
Audio cassette recording of radio features on BBC Radio Sheffield, 25/11/97: Phil Vasili talking about the Arthur Wharton film, and 'Ooh Ah Showab Khan' play at Myrtle Springs School
Library / Audio cassette
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Continuation of BBC Children in Need Funding
We are delighted to announce that BBC Children in Need have granted the continuation of their funding to us for the next three years from February 2015 to January 2018. The funding enables us to help young…
17 Mar 2015 / News /
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Compilation Tape no. 2
Arthur Wharton book launch; The New Football Communities
Library / Video
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FURD young people feature in BBC documentary
Two young people involved with FURD had major roles in a feature about racism in football broadcast on BBC 1Xtra on Sunday 16th December. The hour-long programme, Football v Racism, was presented by Trevor…
18 Dec 2012 / News /
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Arthur Wharton and Lisa Sultanti on television
Arthur Wharton, the world’s first black professional footballer, is the subject of a BBC television documentary shown on 7th January. FURD’s Arthur Wharton Heritage Project Manager, Lisa Sultanti, features…
07 Jan 2013 / News /
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Secret Policeman, the
Documentary revealing what a BBC reporter found when he spent 7 months undercover training to be an officer with the Manchester Police. He lived a double life to see if institutional racism existed in the force…
Library / Video
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First Black Britons, The
A Missing Chapter in the Making of Modern Britain
Library / DVD
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FURD coaching videos
Some of our coaches are producing a series of short videos demonstrating football skills and fitness routines that you can practise on your own or with a friend or relative.
28 Apr 2021 / News /
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Football Black List honour for FURD’s Simon Hyacinth
We at Football Unites, Racism Divides (FURD) are delighted by the news that our Co- CEO Simon Hyacinth has won the annual Football Black List award under the Community and grassroots category.
07 Feb 2023 / News /
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Antiques Roadshow rescheduled but Arthur clip available now
Unfortunately Arthur Wharton's scheduled appearance on the Antiques Roadshow was smashed 3 sets to 2 by the men's single's final last night - if the tennis had finished 10 mins earlier it would have…
07 Jul 2014 / News /
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Sharrow United gain national exposure
Sharrow United hit the national airwaves when they were featured on a BBC Radio 5 Live programme on the impact of Fulham´s Zesh Rehman. Reporter Filo Holland attended Sharrow´s home win over High Noon on 30…
31 Jan 2005 / News /
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Census pinpoints UK population
The 2001 census data has now been released to the general public, dispelling many myths about the UK´s ethnic minority population. The figures, as predicted, show that just 9% of the UK´s 59 million…
18 Feb 2003 / News /
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Singing and songwriting sessions for young women at the U-Mix Centre
Are you aspiring to be a singer or a song writer, or know someone who is?
11 May 2021 / News /
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Go Mukhtar!
Congratulations to former FURD trainee Mukhtar Mohammed, who won a bronze medal for Great Britain in the 800 metres at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden on Sunday 3rd March. Mukhtar…
06 Mar 2013 / News /
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Hooligans!
Part 1: 'No-One Likes Us'; Part 2: 'Kicking Off'; Part 3: 'Foreign Fields'
Library / Video
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Women’s football trials
Football Unites is offering free football sessions for women aged 16 or over at Sheffield United’s Academy (indoors) from 4pm-6pm on Sunday 29th January. There are two aims to this: Firstly, to encourage…
24 Jan 2006 / News /
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Rescheduled Antiques Roadshow appearance for Arthur - golf permitting!
Arthur Wharton was a great all-round sportsman, but (so far) there is no record of him playing golf or tennis. The scheduled appearance on BBC1's Antiques Roadshow set for 6th July was postponed due to the…
14 Jul 2014 / News /
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FURD in the FA People's Cup
Three teams representing FURD were among over 4,000 teams that entered the 2017 FA People's Cup, a free national 5-a-side tournament organised by the FA and the BBC, with 16 different categories. The first…
01 Mar 2017 / News /
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Sharrow United keeper selected for Pakistan national team trials!
Sharrow United goalkeeper Naveed Ahmed has been called up for a two week training camp with the Pakistani national football squad Naveed from Fir Vale in Sheffield is one of a trio of England-based footballers…
23 Jan 2006 / News /
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FURD’s Ruth features in women’s football exhibition at the National Football Museum
Our Women and Girls’ Football Worker Ruth Johnson is currently being featured in an exhibition in the National Football Museum in Manchester.
08 Aug 2023 / News /
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New resources
New resources are always being added to our library and are there to be borrowed. Here are some of our recent additions - contact us if you're interested in borrowing them, or any of our other resources.…
24 Jul 2001 / News /
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Forgotten Heroes: Free online talk about the Early Black Football Pioneers
To celebrate Black History Month, Howard Holmes, the Chair of FURD's Trustees, is giving a free online talk about early black footballers.
12 Oct 2021 / News /
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Action Week activities by FURD
Black History Month and One Game, One Community Weeks of Action have now finished. However, two exhibitions on loan from FURD can still be seen at the Workstation, Paternoster Row, Sheffield, until Monday…
01 Nov 2011 / News /
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Listen to Radio Sheffield at 7pm on Friday 11th June!
‘Chantwriters’, the anti-racist writing group run in partnership with Football Unites, is still going and inviting new members. It recently recorded a session to be broadcast later this summer by Sheffield…
07 Jun 2004 / News /
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FURD's 'veterans' women's football tournament aims to inspire others
FURD held its first women's football tournament on Sunday 19th April 2015, especially for 'veteran' players over the age of 35. Four teams played in the 6-a-side competition with a total of 28 women…
21 Apr 2015 / News /
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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 /
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Sharrow United Under-10s presentation evening
Sharrow United U-10s completed a successful first season in the Sheffield and District Junior Football League, winning the league in the first half of the season and then finishing 6th in the top division…
08 Jun 2016 / News /
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Football Association pays tribute to Sheila Leeson
The role of a Yorkshire grandmother in discovering the history of Britain’s first black professional footballer was recognised by the Football Association before England’s friendly with Ghana at Wembley on…
24 Mar 2011 / News /
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Anti-Racism Week of Action in Sheffield
Football’s most high-profile Anti-Racism Action Week yet has just finished, with all 92 professional clubs in England taking part. Activities were also put on by clubs, fan groups and community groups right…
30 Oct 2002 / News /
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'Sheffield: The Home of Football' heritage project
FURD has been taking part in a project to celebrate Sheffield’s football heritage. The ‘Sheffield, Home of Football’ project has received support from the Heritage Lottery Fund to promote awareness of the…
01 Jul 2013 / News /
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Howard recalls the day we met Pele
FURD's founder, chair of Trustees and former Project Co-ordinator Howard Holmes, recounts this story about the day he met Pele:
08 Feb 2023 / News /
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The U-Mix Centre is now…OPEN!
On Friday 12th April, FURD’s new home at the U-Mix Centre was officially opened. The U-Mix youth and community centre is built into a hillside on Lowfield Open Space, Asline Road, next to Bramall Lane. It…
16 Apr 2013 / News /
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FURD goes to Ghana to discover Wharton's roots
FURD’s Arthur Wharton Heritage Project has just returned from a trip to Ghana. 81-year-old Sheila Leeson, Wharton’s closest living relative in Britain, and her daughter Dorothy, have travelled to Accra in…
12 Nov 2012 / News /
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Soccer's Hidden Racism
A short article from the CARF website discussing the impact of high profile anti-racist campaigns in football and their effect at the grass roots level.Reproduced from the CARF website at: http://www.carf.demon.co.uk/features.html
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War Minus the Shooting?
A critical examination of this press coverage which outlines some of the key themes in the press reporting of the Euro '96 championships. An investigation of the Select Committee's report stating that the tabloid press is primarily responsible for the xenophobia undoubtedly evident during this period.
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