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Aston Villa Foundation

Guy Rippon

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Our guest this episode is Guy Rippon, Head of Foundation and Community Partnerships at Aston Villa Football Club.

As an executive in his second football foundation, Guy has worked to produce incredibly unique programmes for his community. Not just a focus on sport, or indeed football.

During the episode we discuss initiatives and programmes from Villa Vision that supports eye health to employability programmes that cater to local industry needs in more ways than one.

We dig into the day to day challenges and Guy’s tactics for making the most of all opportunities.

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It all depends on the people driving it and what their vision is.
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15:08

People recognised that being independent charities, they could apply for their own funding and they could do more.
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22:08

We try to make sure that we can give partners good news stories and a lasting impact.
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27:05

The most important question is can we create greater impacts to the communities that need it?
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Work hard, do the job, do it well, and be conscientious, and everything will be alright.
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