A good number of our players started out playing walking football back in 2015/16 going to sessions organised by Sky Blues in the Community at venues in Coventry and at the Bedworth United ground.
A group of us thought it a good idea to start a club of our own and shortly after, Bedworth & District WF was born with about 12 or so members. SBitC were looking to drop the Bedworth venue around this time so we gratefully continued to play there and call it our home ground.
Russ Watkin was a huge driving force behind us and we continued to grow our membership under the Bedworth name.
However, after a while we took the decision to move to our current home at The Alan Higgs Centre in Coventry, which is also the home of the Coventry City FC academy where the facilities are excellent and include an outdoor 3G pitch and a full size indoor pitch that we use in the winter months giving us the ability to play all year round irrespective of the weather.
Although now firmly based in Coventry, we kept our name as Bedworth & District WF, in hindsight, we could have changed our name then, but it was not even a topic of discussion as the club was flourishing.
Move on about 4 years and another Walking Football team based themselves at our old venue calling themselves a similar name to ours. As time went on we were faced with a problem because when we arranged matches, the opposition sometimes confused the two clubs, plus we thought it may also be confusing to any potential new members, who may not have realised that we were based in Coventry…
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Author: The Walking Football
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