The Prince's Trust
Football is one of the most powerful ways that The Prince's Trust can engage with 'hard to reach' young people across the country. We are extremely proud of our long term partnership with the PFA, which harnesses the huge youth appeal of the game and motivates young people to seek out the opportunities we offer, to help them transform their lives.
www.princes-trust.org.uk
The Prince's Trust Football Initiative is a long term partnership with the FA Premier League, the Football Foundation and the Professional Footballers' Association who have jointly donated over £5.8 million to The Trust since the scheme was first piloted in 1997.
With the support of 63 Premier and Football League clubs, 10,000 young people have benefited from the programme. The 12-week personal development programme (based on The Trust's Team Programme), enables 16-25 year olds - the majority unemployed - to develop their confidence, motivation and skills through teamwork in the community.
www.princes-trust.org.uk/sport
keep Your Eye On The Ball
keep Your Eye On The Ball is a campaign run by The Professional Footballers' Association, The Football Association and The Everyman Male Cancer Campaign to raise awareness of prostate and testicular cancer within the football community.
The campaign started four years ago after several high profile players were diagnosed with testicular cancer. To date, over 60 clubs and associations have supported Keep Your Eye On The Ball, helping to increase awareness and raise vital funds for research into male cancer at The Everyman Centre - Europe's only centre dedicated to male cancer research.
Kids Taskforce
Britain’s first Kids Taskforce has been formed to help children and young people learn how to handle risk and lead safer lives. The Taskforce is a charity supported by the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Chief Fire Officers Association and the Professional Footballers’, officially launched in London on 17th May 2007, Association.
Many professionals and charities have helped to develop the resources, working as a team to provide the best results for children. Police officers and fire fighters have great expertise in the field of safety and their priority is to keep children safe. Sport is a universal language and the PFA through Football in the Community have demonstrated that the most vulnerable of our children can be reached through sport.
The resources are delivered by teachers but supported by football in the community coaches, police officers and fire fighters. There have been 8 successful pilots with football in the community schemes across the country and it’s hoped more clubs will join the campaign to get the programme to every child in Britain by 2010.
Contact: office@missdorothy.com, www.missdorothy.com, Tel: 0870 759 3388
Reading The Game
Reading The Game (RTG) is an initiative of the National Literacy Trust which works with professional football to promote literacy and to raise reading motivation for all ages. The PFA has supported RTG from the outset, working with the programme to help it to achieve its aims in many ways. This has been specifically achieved by sourcing players as Reading Champions and contributing to projects costs, bringing benefits to both clubs and communities.
W: www.readingthegame.org.uk
E: jim.sells@literacytrust.org.uk
OCD-UK is the leading charity
for people who are affected by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Run by sufferers, for sufferers, we aim to bring the facts about OCD to the public and to support those who suffer from this often debilitating anxiety disorder.
Listed amongst the top 10 most debilitating illnesses by the
World Health Organisation, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
is thought to affect 2-3% of the UK population.
OCD-UK aims to improve awareness of the condition both amongst the general public and within the medical community, with the long term aim of campaigning to ensure every sufferer receives the quality of treatment they deserve.
We also want to facilitate a safe environment for people affected by OCD to communicate with each other to provide mutual understanding and support.
Opportunity International UK
Opportunity helps poor people in 27 developing countries to start or expand their own businesses and become self-sufficient, by providing financial services and training. Small loans are given at low interest rates to poor entrepreneurs who lack the collateral or credit record necessary to obtain loans from the formal financial sector.
We are very grateful for the generous support of the Professional Footballers Association. Their donation will enable us establish and operate a new, sustainable Trust Bank in West Timor Indonesia. Between 20 and 30 people will be able to achieve a level of self-sufficiency and security for themselves and their children that they never dreamed possible.For more information about our work around the world, please visit our website at www.opportunity.org.uk.
Registered charity number: 1107713
Telephone: (+44) (0) 1865 811470
Fax: (+44) (0) 1865 295161
www.opportunity.org.uk
'SCORE' : Sports Chaplaincy specialists
SCORE is a registered charity (number 1005446) set up in 1991 to bring high quality chaplaincy to the world of sport. It works throughout the UK, in many sports, and has operated at Commonwealth, Olympic and Paralympics Games levels. SCORE’s work in English Football is its most extensive sector, with around 70 chaplains serving clubs from non-league to premier league levels.
SCORE has sought to professionalise chaplaincy provision by carefully selecting and training the most suitable candidates, by creating parameters through a code of practice, and by supporting them via regional and national training conferences. The individual chaplains give agreed amount of time weekly and provide sensitive, non-judgemental pastoral and spiritual support to staff and players, regardless of their clients’ faith background. They are obviously available on a 24/7 emergency basis, and their work is strictly confidential.
SCORE's chaplaincy work has many advocates, and the charity has written testimonials from players, managers, coaches, administrators, academy staff and others concerning the benefit and value of its chaplaincy work in football.
For help or to learn more, see SCORE's website: www.www.scorechaplaincy.org.uk
Sporting Chance Clinic
Inspired by his own battle and triumph over alcohol, the Sporting Chance Clinic is the brainchild of the former Arsenal and England captain, Tony Adams MBE: 'Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is admitting you need help. Unlike an opposing centre forward, I finally realised my addiction wasn’t something I could tackle on my own. The trouble was, I didn’t know where or who to turn to.'
Based on his experience, Tony saw the need for a safe, dedicated environment, where sportsmen and women could receive support and counselling for the kinds of destructive behaviour patterns that are all too common in the world of competitive sport, but all too often ignored.
Sporting Chance Clinic was founded in 2000, and began working with patients two years later. Since then it has quickly developed into one of the world's most innovative centres for the treatment of behavioural problems among professional sports people, and has become an integral tool for a number of football clubs and other sporting organisations.
To facilitate this growth, a management team has been put into place headed by Peter Kay, and Sporting Chance moved to Forest Mere - a 158-acre site of outstanding natural beauty and even more outstanding facilities.
Today, Sporting Chance works closely with the English and Scottish Premier Leagues, the PFA and SPFA, offering a variety of individually-tailored programmes, from one-day anger management workshops, to an intensive four-week residential course.
We also run a successful Preventative Education Programme, designed to give young athletes the information and tools they need to avoid the pitfalls and destructive behaviour patterns which can develop in the pressure-cooker world of professional sport.
'I have achieved much in my life of which I am proud, and along with my family, Sporting Chance Clinic is up there with my proudest moments. Although I am still a trustee, the day-to-day running of the charity is down to Peter and his highly-professional team. I wish they’d been around when I was wrestling with my demons. That’s what I’d say to any professional sportsman or woman out there trying to get through it without guidance. On your own you’ve got no chance. With Peter and the team, you’ve got a great chance – a Sporting Chance.'
Tony Adams MBE.
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