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15 Years of Community Impact

The Premier League Foundation’s 15-year report captures the national infrastructure of football-led community work through club community organisations. It describes long-term investment into education, inclusion, youth development, community engagement, health and wellbeing programmes. Because the supplied PDF was not reliably text-accessible during extraction, this record focuses on the report’s confirmed national scope and should be final-checked before publication if exact report figures are required.

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National football-led community programmes, inclusion, education and wellbeing investment

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 15-year community impact report covering national Premier League Foundation activity
Key Metric 2 UK-wide delivery model through Premier League, EFL and club community organisations
Key Metric 3 Long-term support for education, inclusion, health, wellbeing and youth engagement programmes

Key Outcomes

  • Improved opportunities for young people through football-linked education and social action programmes
  • Enhanced inclusion and wellbeing through club community organisation delivery
  • Strengthened national sport-for-good infrastructure by sustaining football-led local delivery

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Delivered 11,474 sessions supporting 12,949 individuals across 40 programmes, generating 324,160 total engagements in 2025
Key Metric 2
Health & Wellbeing programmes delivered 270 sessions supporting 1,168 individuals, generating 7,315 engagements
Key Metric 3
Raised £50,714.49 net through the Foundation Fixture 2025 and £36,156.03 through the Fundraising Dinner (GBP)
Talking Tactics mentoring participant Jamie's confidence, aspirations and self-esteem grew significantly through one-to-one mentoring and mental health support
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
754 unique young people registered for Sport and Life Skills programmes (+114% vs 2022-23)
Key Metric 2
16 Locally Trusted Organisations delivered the programme, up from 9 in 2022-23
Key Metric 3
2,650 sessions held by delivery organisations in 2023-24
72% of young people reported 'getting on better at school or college' following engagement
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Close to 2,000 participants supported in 2024/25 across youth, prison and environmental programmes
Key Metric 2
826 students from 10 state schools took part, 67% female, with 70% of partner schools in the most deprived areas (IMD 1-4)
Key Metric 3
184 serving or released prisoners engaged through the 'Boats not Bars' reducing-reoffending programme
85% of young people improved their mental wellbeing and 83% felt more confident through the youth programme
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
21,212 people engaged with in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
17,708 people played some form of rugby through Foundation programmes
Key Metric 3
More than £9,000 raised through Foundation Day; 9,000+ given back to grassroots rugby clubs
88% of girls in the Girls Tackle Rugby programme reported feeling more confident, per independent research with Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport