SPORTS SHORTS
■■NEWCASTLE Community Football is staging Whitsun halfterm coaching courses for four to 16-year-olds from Tuesday, May 29 to Friday, June 1.
Venues are Ponteland’s Richard Coates Middle School, Gateshead Power League and Corbridge First School.
The cost is £42 for a four-day course and to enrol ring 0191 264 2015 or 07889 618 718. ■■NEW Hartley Juniors produced their best performance of the season to demolish Darlington 7-1 in the Durham Youth League.
Drew Eastlake, Kieran Brannen (2), Will Jenkins, Connor Walker Johnny Fox and Owen Seed notched for the Northumberland side. ■■NOMINATIONS have opened for The FA and McDonald’s Grassroots Football Awards 2018.
The awards recognise grassroots leagues, clubs, volunteers and community projects who have played their part in boosting the game.
Categories include Coach of the Year, Community Project of the Year and Charter Standard Club of the Year.
To make a nomination, go to www.the fa.com/ mcd on aldsgrassroorts awards. ■■THE Foundation of Light, the registered charity of Sunderland AFC, is recruiting trainees for its 2018 Coaches Academy, which kicks off in September.
Students will work alongside the Foundation’s coaches and deliver sessions alongside mentors while studying towards a Cambridge Technical Diploma in Sport and Physical Activity FA Coaching Level Two and afPE Level Three.
At the end of the two-year programme graduates will be guaranteed a job interview with the Foundation of Light as well as receiving career guidance.
For more details, ring 0191 551 5077 or e-mail info@ foundationoflightco.uk. ■■PONTELAND Blues reached the final of the Apollo Doors Gateshead Youth League Under-14 Cup with a 5-2 victory at PrudhoeYC Galaxy. ■■WHICKHAM porgressed in the Apollo Doors Gateshead Youth League’s Under-16 Cup with a 5-2 success against Prudhoe YC.
Montagu and North Fenham Blues beat Alnwick Town 3-2. ■■BLACKFYNE will meet Redheugh Reds in the final of the Apollo Doors Gateshead Youth League’s Under-12 Bridges League Cup.
Blackfyne defeated Rutherford 6-2 while the Reds overcame Blaydon YC Jets 4-1. ■■TO feature in Grassroots Sport e-mail Tony Hodgson at tony. hodgson@trinitymirror.com.