For the fourth time in seven years MFC Academy has won the Educational Christmas Truce Project.
This is the Premier League’s blue-ribbon event for Academies, with 25 clubs taking part. This year’s competition was based around Power in Pals.
MFC U12s focused on neighbouring charity PACTNE, which is dedicated to helping vulnerable families stay together during challenging times.
The group reconstructed raised beds and prepared them for a winter crop of vegetables to be harvested in the spring.
The second part of the project was to work with the Jamia Masjid Al-Madina Mosque based on Waterloo Road, Middlesbrough.
The boys shared the story of the Christmas Truce and celebrated the Muslim contribution to WW1.
All the young people from the Mosque and the U12s created shoe boxes of hope to forward to various local charities as well as to the young children who have been displaced during the conflict in the Middle East.
The boys also visited Catterick Garrison to gain experience and insight.
To celebrate the winning of the competition, the U12s were invited into the recording studio of BBC Radio Tees where Gary Philipson showed them round the studios and interviewed the boys for his radio programme.