{"id":40033,"date":"2012-05-06T04:01:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T04:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=40033"},"modified":"2012-05-06T04:01:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T04:01:03","slug":"welcoming-new-sponsors-for-our-youth-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=40033","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming new sponsors for our youth league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was a great month for the boys and girls in the CBF Youth Development League with the announcement of four new team sponsors, while existing sponsors provided teams with new football kits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks to the huge success of last month\u2019s fundraiser, the British Army in Sierra Leone (IMATT) are now the proud sponsors of two teams in Makeni \u2013 one in each of our boys and girls Leagues \u2013 for this and next season. Sponsorship was also secured from Print Point Ltd., Aureol Insurance and Long Lost Brother Records.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sponsorship provides all the children in each team with annual school scholarships, as well as contributing to the team\u2019s community development projects and match day costs. Many teams are still looking for sponsors \u2013 for this season and next \u2013 so if you or your organisation is interested in getting involved then please get in touch by emailing our CEO, Tim Kellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigbellamyfoundation.org\/welcoming-sponsors-youth-league\/timkellow@craigbellamyfoundation.org\">http:\/\/www.craigbellamyfoundation.org\/welcoming-sponsors-youth-league\/timkellow@craigbellamyfoundation.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of our sponsors, Mercury International, recently provided the four teams it supports with smart new kit, complete with numbers and the company\u2019s logo. Mercury are not only taking advantage of this marketing opportunity, but also giving a real sense of pride to the children who couldn\u2019t wait to start playing in their new kits, as you can see from below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40035\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/High-Table-FC-in-their-new-kit..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40035\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40035\" title=\"High Table FC in their new kit.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/High-Table-FC-in-their-new-kit..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High Table FC in their new kit<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigbellamyfoundation.org\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Bellamy Foundation, Sierra Leone<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a great month for the boys and girls in the CBF Youth Development League with the announcement of four new team sponsors, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[11456,8987],"class_list":["post-40033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-cbf-youth-development-league","tag-craig-bellamy-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}