Saturday 15th January saw Newcastle United Foundation play host to Sunderland Foundation in a badminton festival that took place at The Parks Leisure Centre, earlier in the season Sunderland had hosted Newcastle United in a similar event that proved to be a huge success.

September 2010 saw the recruitment of Staffordshire County Player and Potteries Performance Centre Coach Erika Whittingham onto the coaching team for the PL4S programme. Erika coaches all 4 satellite sessions during the week as well as assisting the PL4S co-ordinator Dawn Bracegirdle with the badminton side of the project. This term has...