The Football Foundation is the
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
's largest sports charity, channelling funding from the
Premier League
The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Foo ...
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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
Gary Alexander Neville (born 18 February 1975) is an English football pundit and former player. He is also a co-owner of English Football League club Salford City. After retiring from football in 2011, Neville went into punditry and was a comm ...
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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
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Lawrie McMenemy
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Nigel Adkins
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James Beattie
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Chris Powell
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Hayley McQueen
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Duncan Watmore
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