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The value of community sport is most felt in times of struggle
City of Liverpool's Football for Everyone scheme

IT IS OFTEN when community work is forced to stop, whether that be due to the extreme weather conditions experienced recently or the Covid-19 pandemic, that the importance of that work and those who co-ordinate it is really highlighted.

City of Liverpool FC in the Community, the community arm of the football club, carries out a number of initiatives throughout the region, some of which will need to be put on hold due to the coronavirus.

These include the walking-football and refugee-football sessions which are put on every Sunday. The importance of such events will be noted even more in their absence, as will the contributions made by the volunteers who organise and run them.

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