Emma Drew

CNS Team Leader Memory Team in Cardiff and Vale UHB MCB. All views are my own. Wife and mum to two ballers.

[Cogan Coronation AFC @CoganCoroAFC]

⚽️⚽️2025/26 Goal of the Season Competition⚽️⚽️

Please get voting on the polls that are in the below threads

#UpTheCoro 🩵⚽️🤍

[Stanwell School PE @StanwellPE]

Wishing our U13 Girls Football Team the very best of luck this Saturday as they compete in the Welsh Cup Final 🏆⚽️
They’ve worked incredibly hard all season and fully deserve this moment. We are so proud of every single one of you.
Go and make yourselves proud 💙

[Emma Drew @Emdrewx]

Super proud of Claudia coming away with a hatrick and and an assist in her first game for Welsh schools last night @StanwellPE

[Welsh Schools' F.A. @WelshSchoolsFA]

Welsh Schools U14 Girls National Representative

An excellent all-round team performance that puts us in a really strong position moving forward.

Proud of the girls and the way they represented WSFA against a top quality team.👏⚽

[Welsh Schools' F.A. @WelshSchoolsFA]

U14 Girls National Representative Trials 2025/26.

Selected squads will get the opportunity to play North v South in January.

[Stanwell School PE @StanwellPE]

A huge good luck to Sydney Baker and Claudia Drew who have been selected to represent Wales U16s in this weeks upcoming matches against the Netherlands and Belgium. Go well girls!⚽️👏🏻🔶🔷

[Perry Dobbins Photography @PerryDobbins1]

A big ‘Thank you’ to @BarryTownUnited @BTUAcademy U13’s for inviting me to their match against Llanelli Town at Jenner Park on Sunday.

[Alzheimer's Society @alzheimerssoc]

‘You can’t afford to waste time when you’ve got dementia.’

This Thursday, when the England and Wales players walk out ahead of their international match, they’ll walk side by side with 22 fans living with dementia.

Steve is one of the fans who will be joining the teams at Wembley Stadium.

‘I’ve always been a footballer. Apparently, as the story goes, I played football against Gary Lineker at school at a teenager – and we won 3-1!

‘I still have a season ticket spanning 40 years at Leicester City. My wife, Carol and my son accompany me to home matches now. I was also the football manager for my son’s team for 10 years and we were very successful. Football has been a big part of my life.

Steve realised something was wrong in 2012 when he started experiencing confusion at work.

‘I was made redundant and, after taking up other jobs, I found that I was making mistakes and was struggling to cope and retain information.

I resigned in 2014 and never worked again after that. But I never thought it was dementia. I was only 54 years old.

‘I went to the doctors and was diagnosed with stress, anxiety and depression.

‘One doctor told me that I should "pull myself together" and come back in three months if I didn’t feel any better.

‘I felt I was trapped in limbo - knowing that something was happening to my body that I couldn’t control.

‘Then, in late 2017, I watched the TV documentary, Alan Shearer: Dementia, Football and Me, and it pushed me to go back to the doctors, along with Carol.

‘I saw a different doctor who was really understanding and referred me straight away to the memory clinic.

‘That’s when I was diagnosed with young-onset dementia. I was 57 years old.

‘That was a big shock. But at least now I knew that there was a reason for what was going on.

‘Finally in January 2019, after brain scans, I was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

‘My advice to anyone worried about themselves or a loved one - don’t go on your own to the doctors like I did, take someone with you. I think that would have helped with getting an earlier diagnosis.’

Don’t miss watching Steve and the other 21 mascots make football history on the 9 October.

[Emma Drew @Emdrewx]

Congratulations to these talented players from @StanwellPE who won both under 12 and under 13 @WelshSchoolsFA cup finales for @CVSFA
We are so proud of Claudia winning two finales in one day 🏆

[Stanwell School PE @StanwellPE]

What a day and what a weekend! U13 girls are @WelshSchoolsFA champions. An outstanding team performance from all with goals coming from Amelia Beddard and Caludia Drew to win 2-1. A big thank you to all the supporters for making the long journey- much appreciated.

[Welsh Schools' F.A. @WelshSchoolsFA]

INTER SCHOOLS FINALS | U13 Girls Final 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

👊🏻 #GAME 1️⃣

Congratulations to @StanwellPE on winning the U13 Girls Final 🏅🏆

Thanks to @addgorffmaes for an excellent final 👏

POTM: Amelia Beddard ⭐️

#InterAssociation

#WSFA @WSFA_InterAssoc

[Stanwell School PE @StanwellPE]

U13 Girls⚽️

Drew⚽️⚽️⚽️
Beddard⚽️

What a game! The girls come back from a goal deficit at half term to progression to the final of the @WelshSchoolsFA cup! We displayed excellent control in the second half to go on and win the match. What an achievement! Da iawn girls!👏🏻⚽️🔷🔶

[Emma Drew @Emdrewx]

An exciting opportunity to be part of the wonderful Memory Team ⁦@CAVUHB⁩ https://t.co/udDsTqfEPM

[Emma Drew @Emdrewx]

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[Emma Drew @Emdrewx]

I’ll be Walking tomorrow with my lovely team for all our patients and their carers @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving https://t.co/EGTffZrCkI

[Lisa Timoney/Kate Storey/Naomi Williams @LTimoneyWrites]

Can you #help please? My elderly parents have gone missing in #Venice They got separated & my dad (with Alzheimer’s) has both their phones. They didn’t arrive back at the pick up point & no one knows where they are. They’re called Bronwen and Stan. Please share!

[Emma Drew @Emdrewx]

Very proud parents today. Claudia works so hard to be the best and after an enjoyable season with ETC. She was awarded with coaches player of the season. Thank you @RachelFurness10 and @BristolCityAcad

[Emma Drew @Emdrewx]

@SumaJohn14 @AylwardRebecca @jem890 @Jas_Roberts10 @CNOWales @BINA_UK @WelshFellows @CV_UHB @CeriRichardsTa1 @ASKenAlliance @asilLF @FNightingaleF Congratulations Suma, you will be amazing!! ���

[MHM Wales @MHMWales]

Are you an unpaid carer looking after someone living with dementia?

Please come and see us for our afternoon tea party in Bridgend Dementia Hub, Nolton Street Bridgend on November 23rd between 11am and 2pm. @TuVidaSupport

#BDH
#unpaidcarer
#dementia
#dementiaservices

[Emma Drew @Emdrewx]

Great end to a fantastic season with @CardiffUniSport Claudia won Player of the year. We are so proud of her. Thank you to all the coaches ⚽️

[Cardiff City House of Sport @HouseofSportCDF]

Got any netball trainers or football boots in good condition that you no longer need? Help us help those who need them most by donating them at House of Sport 👇