Gustavo Oliveira, our sponsored coach at Peckham Town FC.
Through a generous donation, Bell House is able to sponsor a football coach at Peckham Town Football Club, an entirely volunteer-run football club just around the corner from Bell House.
Peckham was founded in 1982 by Bryan Hall, and now has 28 teams from junior to senior. The men’s first team coach is ex-England and Arsenal footballer Mary Phillip, who is the highest ranked female coach of a men’s team in the country!
There are a lot of exciting things going on at the club. They have a partnership with the Rio Ferdinand Foundation to create opportunities for young people in Peckham to enhance their skills in loads of different areas, from coaching to managing social media channels, club finances and events.
Peckham Town does a huge amount of work in the community and run great campaigns around Black Lives Matter and Black History Month; check them out @peckhamtownfc on Twitter and Instagram.
Over lockdown, Peckham Town was unfortunately the victim of vandalism of the pitch and clubhouse facilities, with people breaking in at night starting fires, leaving huge amounts of rubbish and mess. Peckham Town put out a call to help on social media, and volunteers arrived in swarms to get the pitch back to match-ready condition and make the facilities safe for all the teams to train on.
This sense of community runs all the way through Peckham Town, just like Bell House and the club is committed to developing opportunities for everyone to play, watch and enjoy the many aspects of football.
Bell House is sponsoring Gustavo Oliveira (@coachgusoliveira on Instagram), assistant coach for the Peckham men's first team. This is a great collaboration for Bell House given our whole ethos is championing creative education and lifelong learning for all – that is certainly what Gustavo is doing up on Dulwich Common. Gustavo will be combining his role at Peckham with his full-time job at Arsenal Academy so he is going to be busy.
Bell House is proud to sponsor Gustavo and is looking forward to supporting Peckham Town FC this season!