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Moses you're a Star - Community Pioneer gets MBE The General Manager of one of Britain’s leading community sport enterprises has been honoured with an MBE for services to community sport in Birmingham. Lincoln Moses, has been recognised for his work in uniting communities across the city through the power of sport. Continental Star Football Club, which has traditionally recruited its players from inner city areas of Birmingham , has used football to support, guide and counsel those who find themselves excluded from mainstream society. Lincoln has been general manager of Continental Star for the past 23 years after joining the club as a player in 1975. The 48-year-old said: “I do not think of this award as about being about myself, it is about the community I come from. “I have such a passion for my community and I do anything that I can to serve it. This award shows that change can happen.” Lincoln Moses have been assisted by Leaps and Bounds in the creation of a website to manage his community enterprise activity, especially important given the level of interest in Lincoln's work since the Honour. Visit www.lincolnmoses.co.uk for more details. “We started out as just one football team, but we have now reached a level where we have become more like a social enterprise,” Lincoln added. As well as his work with Continental Star, Lincoln is also a member of the FA Race Equality Advisory Group as well as acting as an ambassador for Kick it Out, a campaign against racism in football. Lincoln, who also chairs Birmingham City Council’s Community Football Forum, said that his mother was planning a family dinner on New Year’s Day, with four generations of the family joining together. |