Taking home the Sports Team or Person of the Year Award was FC Darlington Locomotives, an inclusive all-female football club which hopes to encourage all players regardless of their ability.

After being founded in 2021, the club has grown to include more than 300 children of all ages and abilities, the youngest being just four.

Their nomination read: “Promoting female football and offering a positive environment for sporting development in our local community is at the heart of everything we do.

“Nathan, his partner Shona & his brother & parents all have a big part in helping run this amazing club. They run holiday camps which are brilliant to get kids active and very reasonably priced.

“They donate old kit to LENAA soccer academy in Africa to children. They really are amazing and I wo

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