Chelsea Football Club is proud to announce the launch of our new charity to continue and expand our award-winning community, charity and social responsibility work.
Goalkeeping trio Petr Cech, Ross Turnbull and Hilario joined young people from a variety of community projects across the south-east to celebrate the occasion last week.
The Chelsea Foundation has been created as an independent charity to develop the community work established by the football club as well as the health, environmental, anti-discrimination and charitable work the club has developed over the last five years.
Over 800,000 people per year are actively engaged in the UK alone through the club's social responsibility initiatives. These include using football to rebuild communities and providing sport to young people to promote healthy lifestyles, reduce crime and anti-social behaviour as well as drug and alcohol abuse.
The domestic community work of the club has expanded in recent years to include Essex, Hampshire, Sussex as well Surrey and London. The Foundation's international work will see coaches being sent out to Spain, Hong Kong, the US, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Sardinia in the forthcoming months to establish a series of coaching, community and education programs.
The Foundation will build on the groundbreaking work undertaken by Chelsea which includes:
- Award-winning work to help reduce crime through engaging young people through football. Through programs such as Kickz, Positive Futures and Goalz we identify high crime areas and target individuals through our coaching initiatives to provide positive distractions and opportunities for training, education and employment.
- Using football to help educate people of all ages about the benefits of healthy lifestyles and actively targeting older men through a series of health programs.
- Helping the long-term unemployed get motivated and find work using the power of the game to inspire and engage.
- Being the first club to sign up to the Mayor of London's Green 500 initiative and pledge to reduce our environmental impact and have created a liftshare scheme to encourage fans to share cars to games.
- Using football to provide educational initiatives to schoolchildren in English, maths, business studies, languages and IT.
- Helping to tackle racism and discrimination at Stamford Bridge and in our communities.
Importantly the Foundation will be able to accept donations, fundraise and work with a wider range of organizations and funding partners.
All profits and funding will allow the Foundation to develop new initiatives and expand programs increasing the reach of our good work and engaging even larger numbers.
Chelsea now regularly helps to raise over £1.5m for charities annually, part of a corporate social responsibility investment of more than £5.6m each season.
A new website www.chelseafc.com/foundation has been created and to mark the launch, the Foundation will be auctioning off a John Terry shirt signed by the entire Double-winning team and a shirt signed by the three first team goalkeepers.
All funds raised will be ploughed back into grass roots football initiatives.
Goalkeeping trio Petr Cech, Ross Turnbull and Hilario joined young people from a variety of community projects across the south-east to celebrate the occasion last week.
The Chelsea Foundation has been created as an independent charity to develop the community work established by the football club as well as the health, environmental, anti-discrimination and charitable work the club has developed over the last five years.
Over 800,000 people per year are actively engaged in the UK alone through the club's social responsibility initiatives. These include using football to rebuild communities and providing sport to young people to promote healthy lifestyles, reduce crime and anti-social behaviour as well as drug and alcohol abuse.
The domestic community work of the club has expanded in recent years to include Essex, Hampshire, Sussex as well Surrey and London. The Foundation's international work will see coaches being sent out to Spain, Hong Kong, the US, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Sardinia in the forthcoming months to establish a series of coaching, community and education programs.
The Foundation will build on the groundbreaking work undertaken by Chelsea which includes:
- Award-winning work to help reduce crime through engaging young people through football. Through programs such as Kickz, Positive Futures and Goalz we identify high crime areas and target individuals through our coaching initiatives to provide positive distractions and opportunities for training, education and employment.
- Using football to help educate people of all ages about the benefits of healthy lifestyles and actively targeting older men through a series of health programs.
- Helping the long-term unemployed get motivated and find work using the power of the game to inspire and engage.
- Being the first club to sign up to the Mayor of London's Green 500 initiative and pledge to reduce our environmental impact and have created a liftshare scheme to encourage fans to share cars to games.
- Using football to provide educational initiatives to schoolchildren in English, maths, business studies, languages and IT.
- Helping to tackle racism and discrimination at Stamford Bridge and in our communities.
Importantly the Foundation will be able to accept donations, fundraise and work with a wider range of organizations and funding partners.
All profits and funding will allow the Foundation to develop new initiatives and expand programs increasing the reach of our good work and engaging even larger numbers.
Chelsea now regularly helps to raise over £1.5m for charities annually, part of a corporate social responsibility investment of more than £5.6m each season.
A new website www.chelseafc.com/foundation has been created and to mark the launch, the Foundation will be auctioning off a John Terry shirt signed by the entire Double-winning team and a shirt signed by the three first team goalkeepers.
All funds raised will be ploughed back into grass roots football initiatives.
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