New Community initiative with Polish Community Charity

Plymouth Gladiators speedway have teamed up with Plymouth resident and speedway fanatic Gregorsz Starzec, who is heavily involved in a major Polish speedway news website, which also covers Europe and the UK who approached the gladiators to suggest a major new community and charity initiative.

Gregorsz, met recently with Mark Phillips and Ian Jordan and suggested we look at ways to build links with the Polish community which numbers around 7,000 people in the city alone. 

That collaboration will involve us supporting a major Polish charity that the local community supports according to Gladiators Commercial and Business director Ian Jordan.

Gladiators riders and Management with bikes will visit the major Polish community centre and Church in mid-January to support them and build links and to be part of an enhanced community programme at Plymouth speedway, which is being developed along the lines of the one created at Eastbourne from the end of 2018 which has so far attracted over 4,000 new supporters to speedway in East Sussex . 

Plymouth Gladiators hope that this may also involve building more formal links with a few polish clubs and companies in the longer term future that can only be positive for Plymouth speedway. 

Plymouth speedway Management believe that the big advantage with us trying to convert Polish people in to Gladiators or indeed speedway fans; is that the majority will be far more aware about what the sport is, what it involves and how exciting the product is, as it is pretty much ‘the national sport’ in Poland and hugely popular and it attracts the kind of crowds associated with soccer in the uk.

The ability to market and advertise in Polish and to welcome a potentially rich new seam of Gladiators fans, in addition to the ongoing evolution and improvement of the community programme is viewed as a very exciting opportunity.

More news about the new community programme and how you can assist with it or sign up groups and clubs to it, will be released after Christmas.