Pictured above: On the ball - Mansell's Gavin Ward with some of the youngsters at the soccer school

A Mansell project manager is the toast of pupils at a West Bromwich primary school after organising a six-week soccer school.

Gavin Ward, project manager on the multi million pound Sandwell Pathfinder PFI housing project, organised the successful soccer school in conjunction with Great Barr Harriers FC, of which he is a member. Nearly 50 pupils from Harvills Hawthorn Primary School in West Bromwich took part.

At the end of the six-week school youngsters were presented with medals and certificates donated by the Stourbridge-based Western region of Mansell. 

Harvills Hawthorn Primary School is close to where Mansell's Partnership Housing division is involved in a major housebuilding and improvement project as part of the Sandwell Pathfinder PFI scheme with Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council and Riverside.

Mansell's work on the Sandwell Pathfinder PFI scheme has recently won two national silver Considerate Constructors Scheme awards. 

Gavin Ward said, "The youngsters had a great time and displayed some impressive football skills. This is a good way of putting something back into the community we work in, and was a great opportunity for the children to exercise through sport"