Jamie Carragher and Conor Coady announce 2024 Football For Change funding grants up to £10,000
Organisations helping young people build better futures through education, employment, training and sport can qualify for grants of up to £10,000 after Football For Change announced its first round of 2024 funding.
Football For Change was launched in 2021 by Trent Alexander-Arnold, Jamie Carragher and Conor Coady. The initiative was swiftly backed by Real Madrid megastar Jude Bellingham as well as football names such as Gary Neville, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Peter Crouch and Beth Mead. David Beckham, Lionel Messi, Dua Lipa and others have also helped raise funds.
Football For Change brings together sports stars and business leaders to help NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) young people find education and employment opportunities, as well as helping others from underprivileged communities achieve their full potential. The organisation also supports young people who may have been affected by crime help turn their lives around.
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The social mobility initiative has raised over £1.1million since its formation and released over £150,000 in grants to organisations and charities across the country in 2023, including the Liverpool FC Foundation, Everton in the Community and Dame Kelly Holmes Trust.
Football For Change has also sent over 100 disadvantaged young people to the United States for a month-long sports and education retreat and helped finance the building of an education hub in Bootle, Liverpool. Football For Change supported young people into jobs by partnering with Local Solutions and placed homeless youngsters back into work and
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