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Leicester City in the Community

Annual Impact Report 2024/25

Leicester City in the Community (LCitC) is an official charity of Leicester City Football Club, based at King Power Stadium in Leicester. The 2024/25 Annual Impact Report highlights record engagement across 32+ projects, with 12,000+ participants, £1.6 million raised and 126 player engagements, driven by a community-first approach responding to food insecurity, youth isolation and deprivation across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

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Education, community, health and wellbeing, and football development programmes across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland; Foxes Friday youth mentoring; food poverty initiatives including winter food drive; women's sport empowerment programmes; refugee and asylum seeker integration through football; young carers support; Premier League Kicks and Premier League Primary Stars; Iftar at King Power Stadium community Ramadan event; Reading Heroes equivalent; hyper-local community hub approach

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 £1.6 million raised through grant funding and paid opportunities; total income £2,031,644 and total expenditure £2,013,735 (year ended 30 June 2025)
Key Metric 2 12,000+ participants across more than 32 projects; 126 player engagements from LCFC Men's, Women's, Academy squads and LCFC Legends
Key Metric 3 41% of participants were women and girls; 47% from ethnically diverse communities; 58% of staff have lived experience of the challenges participants face

Key Outcomes

  • 47% of participants from ethnically diverse communities; 41% women and girls; 38% of people in Leicester have skipped meals for a full day — driving food poverty response programmes
  • 60% of young people say they don't feel they belong in school, shaping mentoring and school-based programmes; 34% of residents are physically inactive, driving targeted health initiatives
  • 126 player engagements across 2024/25 season including Ricardo Pereira's visit to the African Caribbean Centre for Black History Month, Harry Winks and Bobby De-Cordova Reid supporting the winter food drive, and Abdul Fatawu attending community Iftar at King Power Stadium during Ramadan

Geography

East Midlands

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