The Football Foundation is the
United Kingdom's largest sports charity, channelling funding from the
Premier League,
The FA and the government (through
Sport England
Sport England is a non-departmental public body under the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Its role is to build the foundations of a community sport system by working with national governing bodies of sport, and other funded par ...
) into transforming the landscape of grassroots sport in England.
History
Launched in 2000, the Football Foundation awards grants to grassroots clubs and organisations to help build and refurbish new and existing community sports facilities, such as changing pavilions, natural grass pitches or all-weather playing surfaces, for schools, and local authority facilities or sports clubs.
Founded in 2000, the Football Foundation is now the largest sports charity in UK. So far, the foundation has used the investment from partners to award more than 17,600 grants to improve facilities worth more than £708m – including 885 artificial grass pitches, 3,587 natural grass pitches and 1,210 changing facilities. This has attracted an additional £885m of partnership funding – totalling over £1.5bn investment in grassroots football.
Through the foundation, the Premier League, The FA and government through Sport England have come together to create the National Football Facilities Strategy (NFFS) that will guide work over the next ten years to transform many more local facilities. Local football facility plans (LFFP) are being created to identify priority projects where demand is greatest, and the impact will be strongest and help stimulate the action required to deliver them.
Ambassadors
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Georgie Bingham
Georgie Bingham (born 30 September 1976) is a British radio and television presenter, formerly a host of the Weekend Sports Breakfast on talkSPORT.
Career
She started her career as a runner for ESPN Star Asia and Sky Sports. She did local radi ...
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Dion Dublin
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Graeme Le Saux
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Gary Neville
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John Scales
John Robert Scales (born 4 July 1966) is an English former professional footballer who played as a central defender from 1984 to 2001.
He notably played in the Premier League for Wimbledon, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Ipswich Town as well ...
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Ben Shephard
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Gareth Southgate
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Graham Taylor OBE
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Dan Walker
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Faye White
Faye Deborah White, (born 2 February 1978) is an English former footballer who captained Arsenal Women in the FA Women's Super League and is the longest-serving female captain of England to date. Her Lionesses career spanned 15 years and five m ...
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Lawrie McMenemy
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Nigel Adkins
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James Beattie
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Chris Powell
Christopher George Robin Powell (born 8 September 1969) is an English football coach and former player, who is currently head of coaching at Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur's Academy and a coach for the England national team. As a left b ...
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Hayley McQueen
Hayley McQueen (born 9 December 1979 in Manchester, England) is an English TV sports presenter, reporter, RTS award winning producer, and event host. McQueen is a lead anchor on Sky Sports News and currently the presenter of Scottish Premiers ...
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Duncan Watmore
Duncan Ian Watmore (born 8 March 1994) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Championship club Millwall. Watmore previously played for Altrincham, Clitheroe, Curzon Ashton, Sunderland and Hibernian.
Early life
Watmor ...
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.footballfoundation.org.uk
Charities based in the United Kingdom
Football organisations in England
Organisations based in the London Borough of Camden
Sports charities
Sport in the London Borough of Camden
Organizations established in 2000