League One

‘WE CAN GIVE THEM A SECOND CHANCE’

by
The LeaguePaper Team
1 May 2022

CARING WALSALL PLAY PART IN REHABILITATING PRISONERS
By John Wragg

JAKE Welch doesn’t expect to find the next Pep Guardiola inside HMP Featherstone, but he does hope to give a prisoner a new life.
Welch coaches at Walsall FC and he and the club’s community director Adam Davy go into the prison that has 690 men banged up inside it twice a week.
Walsall is part of the Twinning Project, a charity set up four years ago to use football as rehabilitation for prisoners.
Sixty-nine Premier League and EFL clubs are signed up to it, plus rugby union’s Saracens.
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