Football Foundation
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| Founded | 2000 |
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President | Lord Pendry[1] |
Chairman | Gary Hoffman |
CEO | Paul Thorogood |
Funding Partners | Premier League, The FA and the Government (via Sport England). |
| Website |
footballfoundation |
The Football Foundation is the United Kingdom’s largest sports charity, investing £30m into improving the country's grassroots sports infrastructure each year with money provided by its funding partners: the Premier League, The FA and the Government (via Sport England).[2]
History
Launched in 2000, the Football Foundation awards grants to applicants that go towards building new local sports facilities, such as changing rooms, grass or all-weather football pitches or multi-use games areas for schools, local authority facilities or sports clubs.
The Foundation has also delivered large-scale sport CSR programmes,[3] including the Mayor of London: Sport Facilities Fund, on behalf of Mayor Boris Johnson and his Commissioner for Sport, Kate Hoey MP, as well as the multi-award winning Barclays Spaces for Sports programme that has created 200 new or refurbished community sports sites across the UK.
Ambassadors
- Peter Beardsley MBE
- Georgie Bingham
- Dion Dublin
- Graeme Le Saux
- Gary Neville
- John Scales
- Ben Shephard
- Gareth Southgate
- Graham Taylor OBE
- Dan Walker
- Faye White
- Lawrie McMenemy
- Nigel Adkins
- James Beattie
- Chris Powell
- Hayley McQueen
- Duncan Watmore
References
- ↑ Maxwell, Kelsey (2017-06-16). "Junior Football Club to kick off new home with official opening this Saturday". St Helens Star. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
- ↑ "Football club plans to grow in time for 50th year". Henley Standard. 2017-06-12. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
- ↑ Gibson, Owen (2015-02-11). "Five ways for the Premier League to use its new £5bn deal for good". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-06-19.