Football
Football is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world. The beautiful game is England's national sport
- See Also:
- Blind Football
An Overview of Football
It's fast, skilful, fun and open to everyone. Most of us have kicked a football around at some point. One of the real beauties of the game is that it can be a sport for life. Friends and children in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Its free, fund and one of the best ways to keep fit and healthy.
The FA, the governing body of football in England, is responsible for developing and regulating the game at all levels from international football to the grassroots.
There are six international disability squads, one for each specific impairment. These squads represent England in friendly internationals as well as in European and World Championships.
National Governing Bodies
Grassroots Football Fund
Grassroots Football have teamed up with the Utilita Football re-booted movement to launch the Grassroots Fund, providing support to grassroots clubs, leagues and volunteers who need the help.
Football Foundation - Small Grants
Small grants scheme offers grants of up to £25,000 for items that will help support your club from the restart and beyond. Whether you want to score your goals in style with some new goalposts or need some new maintenance machinery to keep your groundsman happy.
Premier League Stadium Fund
The Premier League Stadium Fund awards capital grants to clubs to support improvement of their stadium facilities for players, supporters and officials. Funding is available to clubs who play in Steps 1 to 6 of the National League System, Tiers 1 to 4 of the Women’s Football Pyramid and clubs promoted into the English Football League.
Barclays Community Football Fund
Barclays believe in creating opportunities for all through access to football. Through the Barclays Community Football Fund, we want to grow participation in football at every level.
Premier League Defibrillator Fund
An investment from the Premier League to install Automated External Defibrillators (AED) and external storage cabinets at thousands of grassroots football facilities, aimed at helping save the life of someone experiencing a sudden cardiac arrest.
Equal Game Ambassador
The Leicestershire & Rutland County FA is delighted to offer a casual, 40-hour working position as an Equal Game Ambassador.
Casual Coaches and Youth Workers
We are currently recruiting for a number of ‘casual’ positions, to support the expanding delivery of the Foundation’s projects and programmes. We are recruiting for;
Casual Football Coaches – to predominantly work on our Football Development Centres and Football Camps (minimum UEFA C/Level 2 in Coaching Football).
Casual Youth Workers – to predominantly work on our Premier League Kicks programme and across our Youth Engagement session (minimum Level 2 in Youth Work).
Casual Coach – to work across a variety of our sports participatory programmes and projects, not just football specific (minimum Level 2 in coaching from a recognised National Governing Body).
