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“Premier League Kicks means support, family and a safe environment just to be yourself.” Arran’s journey with Premier League Kicks began a decade ago as a volunteer. He later progressed to a coaching role and began mentoring young people, helping them to engage in positive pathways. Now a Youth Engagement Officer at West Ham United Foundation, Arran’s work on #PLKicks led to his nomination as West Ham United FC's Premier League Community Captain. Earlier this month, Arran was honoured for his dedication and support for the young people of east London at a surprise presentation featuring actor Idris Elba, first-team manager Graham Potter, captain Jarrod Bowen and West Ham Women forward Princess Ademiluyi. Find out more 👉 https://lnkd.in/dT5tB9Zm #PLMoreThanAGame 

Young people from our Premier League Kicks sessions at Marvell College helped staff organise Hull City programmes at The Tigers Trust Arena yesterday. 🐯 This carefully organised, season-by-season collection will be featured in our new 𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒓𝒆𝒂, where the public can drop by and explore the archives! 📖 Additionally, these materials will be shared with various care homes across Hull and East Riding as part of our Forever Tigers project, supported by #PLFansFund. 👉 https://lnkd.in/ehVKa-86 The Premier League Charitable Fund #PLKicks | #PLCommunities

As part of the Premier League's More Than A Game Campaign, we were able to bring Idris Elba to East London to visit a Premier League Kicks session hosted by the West Ham United Foundation - https://lnkd.in/exqa_3YM As you may have seen over the previous months, Idris has been using his platform to lobby the government and other decision-makers on the topic of knife crime and youth violence across the country. Anyone who knows me knows this is an extremely personal topic for me; the murder of a close childhood friend has been the inspiration for my career, and the pain and trauma that me and my friends went through continues to motivate me to help support people and communities to this day. As part of this activation and away from the media, we wanted to bring together a roundtable discussion with experienced Premier League Kicks practitioners from London, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and the West Midlands who could talk with Idris and senior Police reps in great detail on the important work that Premier League Kicks is doing across the country to provide safe spaces, positive role models and employability pathways for young people and the role that all of this can play in keeping young people safe. Given my lived experience and passion for this topic, I was excited to chair this important discussion. Still, it felt really special to have someone as influential as Idris Elba share that passion and really want to get into the details of the challenges facing young people in our communities and talk about solutions. A massive thank you to Arran Johny, Francis Hargreaves, Kate Roberts, Lathan Forrester and Pablo Blackwood DL for joining me and sharing their personal experiences of being involved in the project, including some really challenging moments, and also highlighting the unifying impact that football can have in communities. Let's have more of these conversations!!

📢 Calling all primary school teachers Join us this #WorldBookDay (Thursday 6 March) for a free, fun-filled online event, hosted by Kit Brown and featuring Football School authors, Ben Lyttleton and Alex Bellos.    The Great World Book Day 2025 Footy & Booky Quiz is a live event open to all primary schools across England and Wales. Delivered by Premier League Primary Stars in partnership with National Literacy Trust, The Great Footy and Booky Quiz is designed to: ✅ Promote reading to pupils in a fun and interactive way 📚 Engage your pupils in reading activities 💗 Showcase reading role models – giving pupils ‘permission’ to read 🎤 Give your class the chance to ask for shout-outs from the presenters ⭐ Give you the chance to win great prizes for you and your class Sign up today 👉 https://lnkd.in/eDa_6jSf #PLMoreThanAGame #PLPrimaryStars

"I wanted to raise awareness that anyone can play football, it's free, it's fun." For almost half his life, Cameron has benefited from the support of Premier League Kicks and the BRISTOL ROVERS COMMUNITY TRUST. Now, he's been named Bristol Rovers Football Club (Official) Premier League Community Captain in recognition of his exceptional dedication to volunteering at #PLKicks sessions and support for other young people in the local community. Find out how a letter Cameron wrote to Rovers' captain Scott Sinclair is helping to create opportunities for more people to play the game he loves 👉 https://lnkd.in/e3_eCzT2 #PLMoreThanAGame

𝗔 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧! 🐯 A huge congratulations to Hymers College, representing Hull City, for becoming today's regional finals winners and earning a spot in the Premier League Primary Stars Girls National Finals at Wolverhampton Wanderers' Molineux Stadium! 🙌 After a fantastic league format, The final saw Hull City face Huddersfield Town in an intense penalty shootout, with the Tigers emerging victorious. However, both teams will advance to the next stage! You should all be incredibly proud of yourselves! 👏 The Premier League Charitable Fund

Football is 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝘼 𝙂𝙖𝙢𝙚 We've been supporting The Premier League and The Premier League Charitable Fund's More Than A Game campaign with events from our Premier League funded programmes, including: ⚽ #PLPrimaryStars Tournament 💫 #PLInspires Women & Girls Event 🏅 #PLKicks participant & coach named as our Premier League Community Captain Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e-VN3xDz #PLMoreThanAGame

🙌 Our Premier League Community Captain... Last night, Wigan Athletic F.C. midfielder Jensen Weir presented Tom Watkins with the Community Captain award for his work inspiring young people through the #PLKicks and #PLInspires projects. Find out more 👇 https://lnkd.in/enki-xKb #wafc 🔵⚪️ | The Premier League Charitable Fund | #PLMoreThanAGame

Ahead of kick-off on Tuesday, Joe received his Community Captain award from Head Coach Steve Bruce as part of the Premier League’s More Than a Game campaign! ⚽👏 Joe’s dedication, leadership, and commitment to #PLKicks have made a huge impact—mentoring younger participants, shaping our new 5-a-side league, and representing #PLKicks in competitions. Congratulations, Joe! 🎉🙌 #PLMoreThanAGame #CommunityCaptain Find out more: https://bit.ly/PLCC_Joe Blackpool Football Club | The Premier League | EFL (English Football League) | EFL in the Community | The Premier League Charitable Fund

🏆 Today, we held our annual #PLInspires Challenge, with eight secondary schools joining us at The Brick Community Stadium to speak about their ideas to improve and raise awareness of gender equality across Wigan! Students also enjoyed a behind the scenes tour of the stadium! 🗣️ Students spoke about some incredibly innovative ideas and campaigns ranging from improving the accessibility of kit and equipment to making areas of Wigan safer for women to engage in sport. We were joined by some fantastic judges, including Wigan Athletic's non-executive director Lucas Danson, the Premier League's Head of Community Engagement Emma Joussemet, Trustee and former GB athlete Jenny Meadows and Wigan Warriors Head of Youth Development for Women and Girls Genna Banks! Up Holland High School were selected as the champions for their fantastic idea to improve the lighting and facilities around The Brick Community Stadium to make it a safer and more accessible place for women to exercise. #wafc 🔵⚪️ | #PLMoreThanAGame | The Premier League Charitable Fund