Crawley Town players were visiting a school in town today for World Book Day. We asked Rob Elliot how important it is for the club to be involved with the community and the important job the Foundation, the club's charity arm, does.
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00:00I understand Jeremy Kelly and Josh Flint are going to a school in Crawley today for World Book Day.
00:04How important is that side of things, with the club getting involved in the community and players seeing the community?
00:10It's massive. To be honest with you, I spoke with Darren and I don't think there's been much done in the last eight months and I just said it's unacceptable.
00:16So the players will be going to anything they need, they'll be going to and that started since we found out about the fact that there hasn't been that community engagement.
00:23And it needs to be because Crawley's a big town, the community's huge.
00:28We haven't got the biggest support in the world because the club has only been a football league club since 2011 so it's incredible the journey's been on.
00:37We want to keep that connection, we want to keep the momentum and we want to make sure that there's a connection between the players and the community.
00:43And that we can obviously have that connection with the fans that come and support us every week,
00:48but also hopefully get the wider community in Crawley coming down to watch us and feeling a part of the club by meeting the players and staff and whoever it may be.
00:57It's brilliant, the foundation doing loads of brilliant work and again nothing but brilliant and supportive of the likes of Darren etc.
01:04So it's great that the players are going down and doing things and I'm sure you'll see a lot more of it going forward.