Football Foundation news
08 Sep 2025
Registered charity and leisure operator, BH Live has taken over the contract to run the
27 Mar 2025
The UK government has announced £100 million of new funding to support grassroots sports and
25 Aug 2023
Alliance Leisure has been awarded funding of £13m to develop a new sports hub at
16 Dec 2022
Construction work has begun on a £13m community sports hub in Barking, East London. The
02 Sep 2022
The Football Foundation is to invest 40 per cent of its total funding over the
26 Nov 2019
It’s just months away until active-net 2020, the two-day educational, networking and business meetings event,
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing disparate information from multiple
30 Sep 2019
Two new synthetic grass football pitches have opened in Lincoln as part of a £1.8m
29 Apr 2019
Prime Minister Theresa May has made a surprise visit to Lancashire, to open a community
17 Dec 2018
Building work is set to begin in January 2019 on three community football hubs in
11 Oct 2018
Three new floodlit 3G artificial grass pitches, along with male and female changing facilities, car
19 Apr 2018
A new funding scheme has been launched to aid the retention of adult male teams
06 Apr 2018
A £16m community hub and leisure centre has opened in Warrington, Cheshire. Operated by health
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
12 Dec 2017
A grassroots football initiative is heading to Liverpool after its debut in Sheffield attracted more
19 Oct 2017
More than 1,500 new football teams and 3,400 coaches will be created after the FA
17 Jul 2017
Stevenage Football Club has offered fans the chance to invest as it attempts to raise
01 Feb 2017
Grassroots football clubs that want to develop more teams for girls and disabled people will
02 Sep 2016
Almost £30m has been ploughed into grassroots football facilities over the last six months, courtesy
14 Jun 2016
Sajid Javid, the former Culture, Media and Sport secretary, helped to launch a new £1.3m
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11 May 2016
The Football Association (FA) will lose all its government funding if it fails to undertake
21 Apr 2016
Funding from the Premier League and Football Association (FA) backed Football Foundation has helped to
08 Apr 2016
A proposal to build a £1m (US$1.4m, €1.2m) sports facility at Burton Albion’s Pirelli Stadium
02 Mar 2016
An area of “significant deprivation” will benefit from a purpose-built community centre in the shadow
16 Feb 2016
A community centre in Watford has received a £250,916 (US$362,882, €324,698) grant from the Football
26 Jan 2016
Grassroots facilities have benefited from £47m (US$67m, €61.8m) worth of grants in 2015 according to
25 Jan 2016
Grassroots clubs for women and girls, disabled players and over-14 males will be eligible to
04 Jan 2016
The Premier League and Football Association (FA) ploughed £14m (US$20.7m, €19m) into the upgrade of
04 Jan 2016
Sport England has doubled its emergency flood relief fund for sports clubs to £400,000 (US$591,736,
16 Dec 2015
Sports governing bodies will have to demonstrate projects that have a “meaningful, measurable impact” on
16 Dec 2015
The Football Association (FA) and the Premier League have set aside £750,000 (US$1.1m, €1m) to
03 Dec 2015
The government and Football Association (FA) should work together to impose a levy on agents’
27 Nov 2015
Improvements to clubhouses, a focus on coaching and investment in artificial pitches have been highlighted
11 Sep 2015
The opening of a £6m community sports hub in Wootton Bassett has been described as
12 Aug 2015
The Football Association (FA) will invest a record £260m into grassroots football over the next
11 Feb 2015
A number of politicians and former players have called for the English Premier League (EPL)
17 Dec 2014
The Football Foundation will distribute a further £1.5m to clubs which are committed to increasing
17 Mar 2014
The poor state of grass playing pitches is having a negative effect on grassroots football
10 Feb 2014
There should be a strong drive towards installing more artificial football pitches across England, a
02 Jan 2014
The Football Foundation has announced that it has now supported more than £1bn-worth of grassroots
06 Nov 2013
Councillors in Scarborough have approved proposals for a multi-million pound leisure village, which will include
28 Oct 2013
An eight-year fundraising initiative has resulted in a new £610,000 community football facility in Winterton,
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David Lloyd is stepping up its commitment to women’s health as it continues to explore what fit-for-purpose looks like for the female population
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physical activity in Generation Alpha
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