Football Foundation news

Alliance Leisure has been awarded funding of £13m to develop a new sports hub at Parsloes Park in Barking. The leisure development specialist was appointed ... More

Construction work has begun on a £13m community sports hub in Barking, East London. The new facility will replace the existing Parsloes Park Sports Pavilion ... More

The Football Foundation is to invest 40 per cent of its total funding over the next three years in multi-sport facility projects. Worth a projected ... More

Two new synthetic grass football pitches have opened in Lincoln as part of a £1.8m investment in the city's sports facilities. The new pitches, at ... More

Prime Minister Theresa May has made a surprise visit to Lancashire, to open a community leisure facility developed by a Premier League club. The £4.5m ... More

Building work is set to begin in January 2019 on three community football hubs in Sunderland. The £18.04m project is being funded by the Premier ... More

Three new floodlit 3G artificial grass pitches, along with male and female changing facilities, car parking and an 80-station gym, have been opened at Liverpool’s ... More

A new funding scheme has been launched to aid the retention of adult male teams within grassroots football clubs. The £1m Retain the Game fund ... More

A £16m community hub and leisure centre has opened in Warrington, Cheshire. Operated by health and wellbeing company LiveWire, the Great Sankey Neighbourhood Hub has ... More

A grassroots football initiative is heading to Liverpool after its debut in Sheffield attracted more than 34,000 people in its first year. The Football Association’s ... More

More than 1,500 new football teams and 3,400 coaches will be created after the FA increased funding to its grassroots campaign. The FA upped its ... More

Stevenage Football Club has offered fans the chance to invest as it attempts to raise £500,000 (US$653,410, €569,492) to build a new stand for its ... More

Grassroots football clubs that want to develop more teams for girls and disabled people will be able to bid for a share of a £1.5m ... More

Almost £30m has been ploughed into grassroots football facilities over the last six months, courtesy of the Football Association (FA) and the Premier League. According ... More

Sajid Javid, the former Culture, Media and Sport secretary, helped to launch a new £1.3m (US$1.8m, €1.6m) football facility in his home constituency of Bromsgrove. ... More

The Football Association (FA) will lose all its government funding if it fails to undertake significant governance reforms, according to culture secretary John Whittingdale. Whittingdale ... More

Funding from the Premier League and Football Association (FA) backed Football Foundation has helped to establish a £1.8m (US$2.6m, €2.3m) multi-sport facility in Bolton. The ... More

A proposal to build a £1m (US$1.4m, €1.2m) sports facility at Burton Albion’s Pirelli Stadium has been accepted by the local council. The League One ... More

An area of “significant deprivation” will benefit from a purpose-built community centre in the shadow of Everton’s Goodison Park. Everton in the Community has broken ... More

A community centre in Watford has received a £250,916 (US$362,882, €324,698) grant from the Football Foundation to install a third generation (3G) artificial grass pitch. ... More

Grassroots facilities have benefited from £47m (US$67m, €61.8m) worth of grants in 2015 according to the Football Foundation’s annual report. The body, which was set ... More

Grassroots clubs for women and girls, disabled players and over-14 males will be eligible to bid for a portion of a £1.5m (US$2.1m, €2m) fund ... More

The Premier League and Football Association (FA) ploughed £14m (US$20.7m, €19m) into the upgrade of 163 grassroots facilities in the six months ending December 2015. ... More

Sport England has doubled its emergency flood relief fund for sports clubs to £400,000 (US$591,736, €542,530) as large parts of northern England continue to be ... More

Sports governing bodies will have to demonstrate projects that have a “meaningful, measurable impact” on improving people’s lives in order to receive funding as part ... More