Groups bowled over by Mayor’s sporting gesture
The Mayor of the West Midlands started his giving appeal with an apprenticeship skills workshop for Birmingham Children’s Trust and an Edgbaston Foundation cricket bat giveaway with Warwickshire captain Will Rhodes.
Andy Street has teamed up with the foundation to ensure that lack of equipment is not a barrier preventing kids from staying fit and active.
This year’s partnership between the trust and the Mayor will see 1,000 bats and 500 balls distributed across the region including neighbourhoods near the county cricket club’s Edgbaston Stadium.
Mr Street joined Will Rhodes, county chief executive Stuart Cain and head of community engagement Ravi Masih, for the virtual hand over of bats to four local charitable organisations.
The Mayor said: “This year’s bat giveaway had to be very different from last year’s because of social distancing rules, but that didn’t stop us from celebrating the work of some many excellent youth groups around the region with this virtual event.
“The support the Edgbaston Foundation provide to some many groups is fantastic, and I know that those youngsters who got to chat with Will Rhodes and the team today will have been thrilled. So, thanks once again to him and the team for their support for Mayor’s Giving Day.”
Mr Street also joined apprentices and their mentors from Birmingham engineering firm Jacobs to see future members of the region’s workforce make an online pitch on behalf of their most important product – themselves.
Jacobs ran a series of virtual employability workshops on September 21 and 22 to support apprentices under the care of the trust.
