The importance of Black History Month
- The Boot Room
- 02 October 2020
For the start of Black History Month, The FA’s Steve Smithies, Butch Fazal and Lucy Pearson discuss the initiative, share their thoughts on why it’s important and announce four BHM webinars.
This week marks the start of Black History Month and to launch the celebrations for FA Education, three key individuals gathered to, virtually, discuss their thoughts on the initiative. Steve Smithies, FA national coach development lead for diversity and inclusion, Butch Fazal, FA coach inclusion and diversity manager, and Lucy Pearson, head of FA education, talked about what BHM means to them and went on to reveal the plans in place to help coaches celebrate this year.
What does BHM mean to Lucy?
What does BHM mean to Butch?
Role models
Webinars and the future
Steve’s thoughts
If you're interested in tuning in to our BHM webinars, click the links below to register for them.
- Monday 5th October - Looking back to move forward
- Sunday 11th October - Young, gifted and black
- Wednesday 21st October - More than a coach
- Tuesday 27th October - If you have a dream make it a goal