» £5,000 Grow the Game grant

Saltley Stallions FC, a gateway to grow the game.
 
Local people in Saltley will be putting on their boots following a £5,000
Grow the Game grant, from the Football Foundation, the country’s largest
sports charity.
 
The grant will allow Saltley Stallions FC to run two football teams for the
start of the 2012/2013 football season.
 
The club will be holding open training sessions for adults and children
from the Saltley, Washwood Heath, Small heath and Stechford area. All
sessions will be carried out by FA qualified coaches,
 
The core objective of the Football Foundation’s Grow the Game’s programme
is to increase participation and enable more people to play our national
game through supporting the development of grassroots clubs. The programme
is delivered in partnership with all of the 46 County FAs and funded by The
FA and Government.
 
So far Grow the Game has awarded 894 separate grants worth £4,354,926 to
grassroots       football clubs. Analysis of the monitoring and evaluation
so far predicts that this will result in the creation of 3,716 brand new
football teams competing in FA-affiliated leagues, 70,489 new players
participating each week and 14,111 new qualifications or courses being
completed.
 
The key strength of Grow the Game is that its participation increases are
sustainable rather than transient. Its grants create a solid infrastructure
of teams and newly-trained coaches in which new people can start playing
the sport, rather than simply providing temporary activity sessions, which
are then vulnerable to drops in participation once the programme ends.
 
The Football Foundation is the country’s largest sports charity, launched
in 2000 and funded by the Premier League, The FA, and the Government (via
Sport England). Since then it has awarded around 8,000 grants worth more
than £420m towards improving grassroots sport, which it has used to attract
additional partnership funding of over £520m.
 
Obayedur Rahman Hussain, Club Chairman, said: We are very grateful and
thankful to the Football Foundation for giving us this opportunity to help
young adults and children keep fit, healthy and away form drugs and crime
through the medium of Football.
 
Paul Thorogood, Chief Executive of the Football Foundation, said: “I
congratulate Saltley Stallions FC for receiving this Grow the Game grant,
which will increase
Sport participation and support football development in the region. I would
like to take this opportunity to thank the Birmingham County FA for their
help in making this happen.
 
“The new teams and players generated by the Grow the Game scheme, since its
launch three years ago, will go a long way towards helping The FA to
achieve its growth target of 150,000 new participants by 2013. It is also
helping government and Sport England get more people engaging in regular
sport.
 
“The Football Foundation is committed – with funding provided by the
Premier League, The FA and Government – to improve grassroots community
sporting provision and help make this legacy vision a reality.”
For more information about the work the Football Foundation is doing all
over the country visit www.footballfoundation.org.uk or follow us on
Twitter at http://twitter.com/FootballFoundtn.
 
For more information contact:
 
Obayedur Rahman Hussain on 07595599709 or email
obayed@saltleystallionsfc.co.uk
www.saltleystallionsfc.co.uk
Football Foundation press office on 0845 345 4555 ext 4274 or
richard.faulkner@footballfoundation.org.uk.
 
 
 
 
Obayedur Rahman Hussain