We are the official charity of Huddersfield Town Football Club. We inspire people, create opportunities, and work with other local organisations to deliver needs-driven projects across Kirklees. As the official charity of Huddersfield Town Football Club, we are referred to as a club community organisations (CCOs). There are over 92 in England, each one connected to a professional football club. Clubs and their CCO’s are perfectly placed to help the community around them, and successfully engage with groups that many other programmes fail to reach.
Established in 2012, with the initial focus to establish ‘Early Kick Off’ Breakfast Clubs in schools to ensure that children started their learning day in school with a healthy and nutritious breakfast.
Fast forward to 2024 and we have still deliver Breakfast Clubs with over 2.5 million breakfasts having been served, but we now offer much more. From Sporting Memories sessions to older people who may be isolated or lonely, primary school classroom educational interventions, mentoring and youth work with young people in and outside of school to employment and skills support to care leavers and support with physical and mental health.
We work with all members of the Kirklees Community wherever they are in their journey through life. All of our programmes aim to provide positive opportunities which tackle the consequences of inequality in at least one of our four key impact areas of Learning and Education, Movement and Activity, Health and Healthy Behaviours and Safe Spaces and Places.
We are rooted in our community. The unique needs of Kirklees are part of how we define our purpose, along with our passion for football and support, our distinct set of knowledge and skills, and the resources we can access to make it all happen. We can't meet all the challenges that face our community, but there are issues where we strongly believe we can make a difference.
In 2022 we marked our ten-year anniversary and launched a new strategy which continues to take us forward.
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