Pontarddulais Comprehensive School represent Swans Foundation at Premier League Inspires Challenge
Pontarddulais Comprehensive School represented Swansea City AFC Foundation at Villa Park during the Premier League Inspires celebration day.
The students from Pontarddulais were chosen to represent the Foundation after winning the Premier League Inspires challenge with their idea to make recycling more fun and engaging with unique and interesting refuse and recycling bins.
The idea was first pitched to a panel of judges from Swansea City and the Foundation, before they further developed their plan at an event held at the Swansea.com Stadium.
Prototypes were made and used to educate younger people on the importance of recycling, inviting a local school to the Swanea.com Stadium for a fun and interactive workshop.
More than 1,750 young people from across England and Wales have joined forces to help tackle environmental sustainability at their football clubs and in their communities.
The challenge is one element of the Premier League Inspires programme, which clubs run on a weekly basis to support 11 to 25-year-olds who are at risk of not reaching their potential as they move through the education system and early adulthood.
As part of the challenge, participants are empowered to take on a social action project and make a difference to the world around them.
Having come up with their environmental social action ideas, participants joined one of five regional celebration events taking place at Villa Park, where they shared details of their activity with teams of their peers representing 44 clubs from across the Premier League and the English Football League.
Matthew Jenkins, Premier League Inspires Coordinator, said: “It’s great for us to be able to add further value to our programme by allowing the young people to consider what’s important to them and their community, and to then produce a project around that topic.
“Our presentation day brings the young people out of their comfort zone and the Premier League Inspires Challenge celebration day gives the winners an opportunity to visit another club, which is the highlight of our calendar every year.”
