Stevenage Football Club Foundation Ltd

Stevenage Football Club Foundation Ltd, the official charitable arm of Stevenage Football Club, was founded in 2010 and registered as a charity in 2011. Its mission is to foster active, healthy, and positive lives by harnessing sport's power to unlock people and potential, emphasizing inclusivity, partnership, wellbeing, and community development. With a holistic, lifelong approach grounded in local Hertfordshire needs, it breaks barriers to participation for all ages and backgrounds, delivering evidence-based programmes through professional football club ties while maintaining operational independence and robust safeguarding.

The Foundation prioritizes physical, mental, cultural, and moral education; healthy recreation; employability; life skills; and health improvements via direct initiatives like football coaching (Girls Talent Pathway, Mini Ballers), walking football, Active Tots, Joy of Moving, Community Kitchen, Extra Time Hubs for seniors, Strength and Balance classes, Premier League Primary Stars, and Kicks for youth inclusion. Beneficiaries include children, young people, older adults, disabled individuals, ethnic minorities, and vulnerable groups in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and adjacent areas, focusing on outcomes like activity levels, mental health, loneliness reduction, and educational equity.

It does not accept unsolicited applications or fund external entities—eligibility is limited to internal delivery or commissioned partnerships with local councils, EFL Trust, Premier League funds, and similar bodies. No income/size rules, grant ranges, deadlines, or open processes apply; all resources (£887k income in 2023/24) support its own mid-sized projects.

Distinctively, it excludes external grants, one-off interventions, and non-local activities, differentiating through sport-led, co-designed, sustainable solutions tailored to Hertfordshire's community, prioritizing measurable impact over broad distribution.