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17 October 2019 | Charity , General News , Sir Bobby Charlton CentreNigel Ellway and Lou McGrath follow outreach workers from the Sir Bobby Charlton Centre on their rounds in Amman
Written by Nigel Ellway This week while The Sir Bobby Charlton Foundation's CEO, Lou McGrath is in Cambodia creating a new Sir Bobby Charlton Centre the International Development Committee of…
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15 October 2019 | General News , Sir Bobby Charlton Centre
Henry Smith MP Visits The Sir Bobby Charlton Rehabilitation Centre In Amman
Henry Smith MP visited the Sir Bobby Charlton Rehabilitation Centre in Amman in September to gather evidence for the International Development Committee. On Tuesday 8th October the Committee invited the…
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11 October 2019 | Charity , General News , Sir Bobby Charlton Centre
Child survivors of conflict vote Sir Bobby Charlton their greatest hero!
In a rehabilitation centre in Jordan Syrian refugee children undergoing physical and psychological therapy have called Sir Bobby Charlton their greatest hero. To celebrate the veteran footballer’s eighty-second birthday the children…
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10 October 2019 | General News , Sir Bobby Charlton Centre
Nigel Ellway meets a real life local hero at the Sir Bobby Charlton Centre for Support and Rehabilitation in Jordan
Written by Nigel Ellway Three weeks ago I was in wet and windy Scotland, marvelling at Prof Manuel and Prof Matt’s work at Glasgow University to develop a technique to…
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9 October 2019 | Bobby’s Champions
Jane Bateman – Our First Bobby’s Champion
Many people don’t like running. But I do. It’s exercise, of course, but it’s also a release, a distraction, thinking time. When weather permits, it’s also the joy of fresh…
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17 September 2019 | Charity
Nigel Ellway meets a couple of committed contributors to a humanitarian cause
It was Glasgow, it was raining, and I was having one of those conversations that you just have to tell someone about. Over coffee in the Joseph Black Building at Glasgow University…
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