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Football Foundation - football's biggest supporter
Wednesday 19 June 2013
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about us

The Football Foundation is the UK’s largest sports’ charity. Funded by the Premier League, The Football Association and the Government, the Foundation directs £30m every year into grass roots sport.

  

Woodlands Primary Schools received a £815,470 grant from the Football Foundation

The Foundation receives money from the very top of the professional game and also from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport through Sport England. It then uses this money to leverage even more partnership funding, to deliver a programme of new and improved community sports facilities in towns and cities across the country.

 

Our mission is to improve facilities, create opportunities and build communities throughout England.

 

Our Trustees

Chair Gary Hoffman

FA nominee

Roger Burden

FA nominee

Jonathan Hall

Premier League nominee

Richard Scudamore

Premier League nominee

Peter McCormick

Government nominee

Rt Hon Richard Caborn

Government nominee

Phil Smith

  

Our awards

Read about the awards the Football Foundation has won by visiting the awards page.

 

Extra Time has been nominated for an award at the Beyond Sport Awards 2011.
The Football Foundation won the GG2 Football in the Community Award at the Leadership and Diversity Awards 2009.
The Kickz project won the Community Programme Award at the Sport Industry Awards 2009.
The Extra Time programme was a finalist for the Charity Partnership Award at the Third Sector Excellence Awards 2009.
The Football Foundation has been shortlisted at the Charity Times Awards 2011.
The Football Foundation - Third Sector Excellence Awards winner 2008
The Football Foundation was nominated for the Best Use of Technology Award at the Charity Times Awards 2008.
Barclays Spaces for Sports won the Best Grass Roots Sports Sponsorship at the Hollis Sponsorship Awards 2007.
Silver IVCA Award winner
Barclays Spaces for Sports won the BUPA Healthy Community Award at the Business in the Community (BITC) Awards of Excellence 2007.
Barclays Spaces for Sports won the Sport England Community Programme Award at the Sport Industry Awards 2007.

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Background

Prior to the establishment of the Football Foundation in 2000 there was woeful under investment in our sports facilities. From this emerged a real determination to rebuild this country’s dilapidated community sports facilities in order to reverse the rising number of young people who were turning their backs on the national game. As a result, the Football Foundation was founded in July 2000.

Diversity

The Football Foundation is a Stonewall Diversity Champion

Stonewalls' Diversity champions programme is Britain's good practice forum for LGBT issues in the workplace. It brings together top employers from all three sectors to promote supportive work environments for gay people.

 

The Football Foundation is only one of four sports organisation that is part of this programme and in fact is the only football organisation member.

Football Foundation Funding Partners
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