Bloomsbury Football Foundation is a football charity on a mission to change the game for young people in London.

Our mission is to ensure that every young person has the opportunity to experience the life-changing power of the beautiful game. 

With our financial assistance model, no young person will be turned away.

Find out more about us here: https://bloomsburyfootball.com/

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Bloomsbury Football Academy are organising an overseas tour to Seville in April 2025, inviting 40 of our U14 Boys and Girls Academy players.

We are seeking your generous support to help provide our young people with a unique opportunity to broaden their horizons and develop life skills through football. By joining an overseas trip with Bloomsbury Football, players will build resilience, self-awareness and responsibility, whilst enhancing their understanding of different cultures and languages.

Our previous overseas tour was the first time that many of our players had left the UK, been on a plane, experienced a different culture, and stayed away from their family. We believe this tour will support our young people in building their confidence, social skills and teamwork, in an environment that they may never experience without Bloomsbury Football.

We believe that no child should be turned away from any experience, and that everyone should benefit from equal opportunity to the life-changing power of football.

Our programmes and tours are partly funded by payments from those who are able to pay for our services, but we are still reliant on generous support from organisations & individuals covering the remaining funding gap.

As such, we are fundraising £8,750 to ensure that all players have the opportunity to join us in Spain, regardless of their ability to pay.

Your donation will directly contribute to 5 days of travel expenses, accommodation and football experiences, making this incredible opportunity accessible to all.

Thank you for considering a contribution towards this life-changing experience!

We look forward to sharing updates on our fundraising goals and hopefully delivering an amazing experience for our players.

About Bloomsbury Football Foundation

Young people in London are facing a growing mental and physical health crisis, made worse by the pandemic, social media and the cost of living crisis. These challenges disproportionately affect young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. At Bloomsbury Football Foundation, we believe in the transformative power of football to help address all these challenges. But the benefits of regular access to the beautiful game are not open to all and impossibly expensive for many families. Our financial assistance model, coupled with our approach of mapping our service delivery around areas of highest Income Deprivation Affecting Children, is already making regular football accessible for over 5,000 children and young people each week. In the context of an increasingly segregated society, we also bring together children from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds, ethnicities and nationalities – facilitating friendships across these societal divides.

We are on a mission to expand provision to reach 20,000 young people a week by 2028, ensuring access to all, regardless of ability to pay or play. This includes a commitment to reach 10,000 girls weekly, as well as significantly expand our Refugee & Asylum Seeker and Disability Football programmes.