One of the key goals at @OfficialOAFC is to encourage more people from the local area to engage with the club. Turning ‘Latics’ from a matchday experience to an every day engagement. A vital element to that is working closely with the education landscape across the borough. So #NationalTeacherDay, not only allowed us to show our appreciation for the great work of teachers and educators across Oldham but to build relations with them as well. Thanks to the support of Chances Mentoring and @ipldab we were able to give out over 1500 tickets to teachers who applied for them to yesterday’s game. Taking our match day attendance in the 5th division of English football to over 7000!💥 Not only that, we held a networking event for a number of senior leaders in education, including Director of Education & Skills at @OldhamCouncil, Matt Bulmer. It was exciting to talk to a number of those in attendance about our plans to become a key part of the education jigsaw in Oldham and not just a supporter of it. This is growing on the already fantastic work being delivered by @OfficialOACT , working in almost 30 schools and engaging with many more across the town. It was brilliant to have Martin & Emily in attendance yesterday with a collaborative approach with Club & Trust. Whilst the result on the pitch wasn’t what we was hoping for, off the pitch we will take a win planting the seeds to grow new relations across the education landscape. Thanks again to @callumsiddall1 & Shaun Finnerty, without your support we wouldn’t have been able to celebrate National Teacher Day in the way we did. 🤝 📚 ⚽️ 🦉 ✏️ #OldhamAthletic #OAFC #NationalTeacherDay #Community #Education #RelationshipBuilding @BrianClarkeHT @mrgray_newman @gazneedle @mv4747 @NewmanRC_Head @craigbarratt111