Fun Football Impact

Fun Football is for Everybody

At Fun Football, we believe football should be enjoyed by everyone!

We believe that football should be a sport for everyone, regardless of experience or skill level. We are working hard with our partners to ensure our Fun Football Sessions, Festivals and Activities are becoming ever more inclusive so every child aged 5-11 can get involved in the programme in some way. We are working with a number of exciting partners including UKFA’s, British Blind Sport, Children in Need,England Futsal and Kick it Out, increasing the reach and accessibility of our free Fun Football opportunities.

Children in Need

BBC Children in Need believe every child deserves the chance to thrive, and together, we can make this happen. CiN partner with sectors to help create lasting change for young people so they can go on to be the best they can be by offering the right support, to the right place, at the right time. CiN and Fun Football ensure our sessions are growing into areas where they are needed most, so every child gets a chance to get involved in the game they love.

Kick it Out

Kick it Out was set up to fight racism in football in 1993. In 1997 they expanded to tackle all forms of discrimination. This is achieved through raising awareness, confronting issues, running education programmes for academy players, parents and fans. Kick it Out campaigns to make sure football is always welcoming. They support Fun Football to upskill it’s coaches to make them better able to identify address discrimination and to educate parents and children.

UK Deaf Sport

UK Deaf Sport’s vision is for every deaf person to be active and inspired by sport and physical activity.

Access Sport

Access Sport believe that no one should be excluded from the transformational benefits of community sport. The train, equip and support community sports clubs, organisations and volunteers to provide inclusive programmes, unleashing their potential to transform the lives of underserved young people.

England Futsal

England Futsal is an independent futsal organisation working in partnership with The FA and other organisations to deliver and operate participation & performance level futsal, and how this can be adapted for use to support those with impaired movement.

British Blind Sport

British Blind Sport is the national sports charity for children and adults with sight loss in the UK. They use the power of sport to change the lives of people with sight loss and support them to lead more active, healthy and independent lives.

MSCNI

MSCNI works with communities in Northern Ireland to promote cultural diversity and racial harmony by promoting sporting and cultural activities.

Our Coaches

All McDonald’s Fun Football Coaches are a minimum Level 1 FA Level 1 or equivalent qualified. We work with our partners to upskill our coach sin various DEI competencies . in February over 80 Fun Football coaches attended the inaugural education development day to partake in practical and theory sessions, led by British Blind Sport, Kick It Out, and England Futsal, covering how to tackle unconscious bias, adapting sessions for children with visual impairment and how the fundamentals of Futsal can be used in Pan-Disability sessions.

Our Activities

Working with partner Access Sport Fun Football has delivered 4 Pan Disability centres in July. We are working to bring more sessions across the UK in September 2024.

Here are some of the stories of those who attended in July.

Reji's Mum

We love it, it's an absolutely amazing session! The coaches are brilliant and know how to keep him engaged. What's particularly great is that the sessions are not regimented and that it’s a smaller group, which means there's not too much of a sensory overload for Reji. If this was a regular fixture, we'd be here every weekend!

Joshua's Family

Joshua wasn't into it initially, but he's gotten around to kicking the ball and running with it from one end to another! He's got delayed speech, so we don't get much feedback from him, but his teachers told us he was talking about his football session at school, which is great!