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Semi-final place? Doorway Kandu it!
…this year the team progressed to the semi-finals. This was the first time we have ever qualified from the Round Robin stage in this competition, after a decade or so of trying.
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Volunteer Profile Martin
It was nearly 6 years ago that I began my involvement with Doorway. I was slowly recovering from having been extremely ill, my hospital visits had reduced to monthly, and […]
Volunteer Profile – Scott
Can too many cooks spoil the broth? And why jumping out of the frying pan into the fire, really can be good for you! Can there ever be too many […]
Volunteer Profile – Mark
After working my way up the career ladder I was extremely fortunate in 2014 to be able to stop working and embark upon the next stage in my life. After […]
Doorway Annual Review 2015-2016
The front page of this year’s Annual Review shows a word cloud created by members of the public who follow the Doorway Facebook page. They were asked to describe our […]
The Doorway Football Team Play in the Kandu Kick Eurp 2016 Tournament
Sunday 10th July 2016 – Kandu Kicks does Euro 2016 Doorway is England for the day! It’s mid-July and today is a huge sporting day – Wimbledon Men’s Final, British Grand […]
Doorway, Social Exclusion & the Berlin Wall – Guest Opinion Column published in the Gazette & Herald Newspaper – Jan 2015
Way way back, 25 years ago, in November 1989 the Berlin wall was brought down by the people of Berlin. Not by the authorities but by the people on both […]
Go the Pinks! The Doorway Football Team play in the Kandu Kicks World Cup Tournament
Saturday 16th August at Stanley Park – The World Cup!! Doorway is Costa Rica for a day The teams assembling, the crowd buzzing and then the news breaks – Colombia haven’t turned […]
Why the Doorway Football Team Plays in Pink
Lisa’s Guest Opinion Column in the Gazette & Herald Newspaper – May 2014 As he heads out of the door, at the end of a drop-in session, B turns around and […]
Pink – Keep the Party Going (Doorway Football Update 2012-13)
(and 2011-12, actually…..) The story so far…… In 2009, Doorway ran a pilot football project for guests, using outdoor facilities on the edge of Chippenham. The sessions were very popular with those […]
Doorway to a better life – by Brian Tregunna
Chippenham based charity Doorway is attracting attention from the USA for the way its work with homeless and vulnerable people is improving lives. Doorway is an award-winning drop-in centre providing a friendly, […]
A Testimonial to the Work of Doorway
Doorway is an extraordinary project. From its humble, passionate beginnings, it has always managed to be more effective than would seem possible on the small amount of cash available. In […]
Well, Here’s Another Fine Mess You’ve Gotten Me Into, Stanley
“Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing” (Henry Russell ‘Red’ Sanders) “The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle, the essential thing is not to have […]
Doorway says ‘Bye Bye Blues’ and gets in the Pink…..
(…..and possibly silver……..) Wednesday December 7th, Croft Sports Centre, Old Town, Swindon – the Swindon and Wiltshire Adult Inclusion Festival. Doorway’s third time in a football tournament (following on our appearances […]
Perspiring dreams dashed in the city of dreaming spires
OK, so I sort of plagiarised Matthew Arnold and Frederic Raphael there, but what the hey…. As very recently mentioned on this site, on Monday 10th October, the Doorway football team took part in the second Oxford Social […]
The Blues Brothers (and Sister) on the Road
“It’s 14 miles to Trowbridge, we’ve got a full tank of gas, a packet of rolling tobacco, it’s sunny at times, and Lisa’s wearing sunglasses………………….we’re on a mission from Doorway” […]
‘Doorway’ – a poem for Homelessness Sunday
This poem was written by jml10 for, and recited by him at, the Homelessness Sunday Service at St Andrew’s Church, Chippenham, on Sunday January 30th 2011. Doorway When I didn’t […]