Forest Ladies celebrate Mother’s Day in the Community
Forest Ladies spread the Mother’s Day love with Whitemoor Academy at the school’s Celebratory Mother’s Day lunch event.
Event organiser Paul Curtis, Fundraising Co-Ordinator for Nottingham Forest Ladies and parent of a pupil at Whitemoor instigated the idea to help give pupils and guardians alike the chance to mix with senior members of Forest Ladies over Lunch. It was welcomed by Head Teacher, Judi O’Leary who had been promoting the event with parents leading up to the day.
The pupils were then given the chance to be mascots at Forest Ladies home game at Sunday’s game vs opponents Swindon Town.
The event is always a popular one for Whitemoor academy with three full sittings for all age groups which gifted the chance for the pupils to have their Mum’s, carers and guardians present to join them over lunch and enjoy some well cooked fayre.
Nottingham Forest Ladies players and staff mixed with all and chatted over different topics and even had interest from some to look at playing the game going forward.
Elizabeta Ejupi, 1st team player for Forest said: “Everyone engaged over lunch and we had some good conversations ranging from football to favourite singers and school subjects. It was great to be a part of and we hope it helped give something different to a special day.”
NFLFC’s Elizabeth Ejupi with children from Whitemoor Academy
NFLFC present Cook Supervisor Debra Duncan with some flowers on her 50th Birthday. Paul Curtis (far right) was the lead organiser for Forest Ladies.
Kitchen Staff with Forest Ladies
It was especially surprising to see an ex junior Forest Ladies player on the staff of Whitemoor and a great re-union opportunity. Amber Stapleton is now a Teaching assistant at the school but used to play at various age levels for Nottingham Forest Ladies.
Former Forest Ladies Player Amber Stapleton with Forest Ladies’ Chairperson and pupils from Whitemoor
Head Teacher, Judi O’Leary said “Our children really enjoyed spending their lunchtime with the Nottingham Forest Ladies at our Mother’s Day event. We had over 170 mums join us for lunch, which made it an even more special day for everyone. To have some of our children as mascots for the ladies at their game on Sunday against Swindon was great and I want to say a big thank you to all involved.”
Paul Curtis said: “It’s fantastic to see Forest Ladies having an impact and also for them to be inspired by the staff and pupils here at Whitemoor. It was great to see the mascots on Sunday too and run out with the players and congregate in the team huddle.”
Forest Ladies 1st Team with Mascots from Whitemoor Academy