Michael Carrick Foundation Competitors

Founded over 100 years ago, UK Youth is a leading charity working across the UK. We have influence as a sector-supporting infrastructure body, a direct delivery partner and a campaigner for social change. UK Youth’s new 2025 strategy, “Unlocking Youth Work” outlines a bold ambition to impact young lives by unlocking youth work as a catalyst for change. We will work in partnership to build a cross-sector movement, creating a society that understands, champions, and delivers effective youth work for all. With an open network of over 8000 youth organisations and nation partners, we are focused on unlocking youth work as the catalyst of change that is needed now more than ever.

The Youth Sport Trust is a children’s charity on a mission to pioneer new ways of using sport to improve children’s wellbeing and give them a brighter future. The charity has 23 years of expertise and partnerships with schools. It would like to see every child enjoy the life-changing benefits that come from play and sport. Since 2013, the Youth Sport Trust has helped 4.7 million children to participate in sport and physical activity. It has a network of 4,200 member schools which use its research and insight to achieve best practice and support healthier, happier children and young people. To find out how it is delivering on its mission to stop the decline of children’s wellbeing in the 21st Century visit strategy.youthsporttrust.org and for more information please visit www.youthsporttrust.org

The Football Foundation is the charity of the Premier League, The FA and Government, through Sport England. We deliver outstanding grassroots football facilities, meaning more games, better games and more people playing - helping transform communities where demand is greatest and impact will be strongest. Founded in 2000, we are now the largest sports charity in UK. So far, we have used the investment from our Partners to award more than 17,600 grants to improve facilities worth more than £710m – including 942 artificial grass pitches, 6,426 natural grass pitches and 1,200 changing facilities. This has attracted an additional £940m of partnership funding – totalling over £1.6bn investment in grassroots football. And there’s much more to come. Through the Foundation, the Premier League, The FA and Government through Sport England have come together to create the National Football Facilities Strategy (NFFS) that will guide work over the next 10 years to transform many more local facilities. Local Football Facility Plans (LFFP) are being created to identify priority projects where demand is greatest, and the impact will be strongest and help stimulate the action required to deliver them.