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If the Cowfolk are doing it, this is where it’s at…
Thai Foodie Fundraiser
Get ready for an amazing event coming up at the @coexistcommunitykitchen and it’s all for a great cause! On Friday 18th August, Easton Cowfolk Football Club @easton_cowgirls_fc are hosting a delicious Thai BBQ with music from some of the best local DJs. This event is to help fund the Cowfolk sports teams for refugees and asylum seekers for next season.
How will your money help? All funds raised from ticket sales will be used to cover league, referee, pitch fees, football boots and kit, training, transport, and weekly meals.
You can expect awesome tunes from local DJs, and your stomachs will be filled with pounded salad, BBQ snacks, and spicy curries. We’ll also have a bar stocked with delicious beer from @bristolbeerfactory as part of their Brewed To Give project. ?? There will be both vegan and meat options, so swipe right to see the menu!
We are proud to stand with the Easton Cowfolk in their belief that sport brings friendship and freedom. This wonderful project is an essential part of helping refugees feel secure, safe, and welcomed in their communities.
Don’t miss out – get your tickets from @headfirstbristol or via the link in our stories. You can also donate to the @gofundme page: www.gofundme.com/f/cowfolk-refugee-football-team. Come show your support and have a great time!
Super Supper club – food for the soul
You can get a delicious three course meal for less than a fiver at Super Supper Club at The Pickle Factory, All Hallows Road on Mondays and Wednesdays. Volunteers rescue perfectly good food that supermarkets have deemed unable to sell and transform it into delicious three course meals. At £4 for adults and £1 for children, it’s a bargain, not to mention a lovely way to eat with other folks and make new friends. Vegan and vegetarian options are also available.
Cowgirls Netball needs your help!
Easton Cowgirls Netball is supporting an open letter to England Netball to express our concerns about their new gender policy consultation. This consultation risks excluding trans people from playing in netball leagues or forcing trans women to supply private medical information in order to take part.
The open letter will show our soldarity with trans netballers and encourage England Netball to make their consultation more inclusive and representative.
We’re asking individuals to sign the open letter and get others to sign.
There a Google Form which you can use to sign the open letter as an individual or even pass it on to the sports teams/clubs you may know. The link to read the open letter is on the Google Form:
We’re no dummies! Cowfolk level up on life saving
The Cowfolk had a scare recently when one of our footballers had a cardiac arrest on a roof and was kept alive by a work colleague until an ambulance came. It was a wake up call for the club and we decided to run a day of first aid training. Dummies for the win!
Extraordinary Meeting of the Cowfolk
Meeting to appoint new chair and secretary.
On Monday July 10th at 6:45pm, we need two members from each section of the club (Cowgirls footie, Cowboys cricket, etc) to appoint a new chair and a new secretary, except for CACKK who only need one member to attend. This was the goal of a recent meeting but not all of the sections were represented which is why this extraordinary meeting has been called. It’s really important that the meeting goes ahead and that the new roles can be filled. A Zoom link will also go out so that people can attend online if they can’t make the community centre. The meeting is scheduled to take half an hour in total.
Bristol Women’s Voice event
There will be a Bristol Women’s Voice event event for International Women’s Day on Sat 11th March. Please spread the word about it.
Easton Cowgirls will be on college green doing some football stuff and I’ll be creating a textile installation for a visual mapping project in the Vestibules (entrance near the Central Library). Come on down for the day there’s HEAPS on!
I’m also looking for nominations for women you think should be ‘put on the map’ in Bristol women who made a difference during their lifetime whether it’s science, arts, community, health, teaching, equalities. Of course, grassroots women especially welcome. They don’t need to have started a big organisation, it could be that they volunteered for years cooking meals for local residents and made a difference in small, local way. Please email me if you have any suggestions or drop by on 11th.
Cheers, Zoe
New Cowfolk softball team
Mixed gender team including trans and non binary players. All abilities welcome! Many of us have never played before.
The Bristol Softball league are running taster sessions 2-4pm on Sunday 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th March, £4 cash to attend.
After taster sessions we’ll be looking to set up our own Cowfolk training, with hopefully some friendlies in spring/summer and a local tournament in August!
Contact Zoe G (Gibbo) or Jo G for more info, or use the website contact form.
2023 Copa Sandino/Lucrecia – in question!
This year’s 34th annual Copas Sandino and Lucrecia Lindo will take place on Sunday 21st May at Ashton Park Secondary School. However, we are currently considering boycotting this years event as a club.
For those who don’t know, the Copa Sandino (mens) and Copa Lucrecia (womens) is a charity five/six-a-side football tournament organised by Bristol Link with Nicaragua (BLINC), which raises money to support solidarity and development projects in Nicaragua. We have played in these tournaments for many years.
However, for political reasons we are currently discussing as a club whether to boycott this event – more details to follow.