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Sapperton Rovers have performed hundreds of hours of volunteer community service work and continue to do more. Each year the team serves dinners to senior citizens at Century House, and they have done the same at Saint Barnabas church, and to poor homeless people in the downtown eastside. Team members helped for several years at Sapperton family days. They also lent their soccer expertise to Royal City Youth Soccer club, helping coach youth teams, evaluating players at tryouts, and operating a summer soccer school.
Sapperton Rovers and Peak Concrete formed dynamic partnership which resulted in them helping sapperton area pensioners in 2005 and also working on a monument to commemorate the first soccer game in BC which was played in New Westminster in 1862.
As descendants of the Royal Engineers, Sapperton Rovers commitement to the community is not surprising.
In May 2008, Sapp reenacted the first soccer soccer game palyed in VBC, using 1860 style uniforms and 1862 football rules.
In 2008/09 Sapp began work to have a monument erected in New Westminster, to permanently the first game in BC played in 1862 between the Sappers and the twonsfolk.


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