Sport & Health
Premier League Kicks
The Premier League Kicks project provides weekly free football sessions for 8-17 year olds. These sessions will give local youngsters an opportunity to train with professional coaches, get fitter and be healthier and learn and develop new skills.
The Premier League Kicks project provides weekly free football sessions for 8-17 year olds. These sessions will give local youngsters an opportunity to train with professional coaches, get fitter and be healthier and learn and develop new skills.
 The weekly sessions in Accrington will take place as follows;
Stanley Sports Hub
Thorneyholme Rd, BB5 6BD
Monday & Friday: 5pm-6pm
8-17 year olds
Hyndburn Leisure centre
Thursday: 5pm-6pm
8-17 year olds
What is Premier League Kicks?
The vision was to build safer, stronger, more respectful communities through the development of young peoples’ potential. It has proven successful, working with vulnerable young people which may otherwise struggle to join in with other mainstream activities. The programme helps guide young people towards leading a healthier and more pro-active lifestyle, using a relaxed approach. By adopting this method of delivery, it ensures Kicks can be pushed out in some of the most challenging and disadvantaged areas within various communities, including those of high rates of crime and anti-social behaviour statistics.
By engaging youngsters in constructive activities, including a wide variety of sports, coaching, music and educational and personal development sessions, communities up and down the country have been transformed with impressive sports participation rates and the authorities reporting significant reductions in anti-social behaviour. The scheme has also enabled thousands of youngsters to find routes into education, training and employment.
The growth of Kicks has been phenomenal and today 47 Premier League and Football League clubs run a combined 112 projects across England, with 45,000 kids engaged in their local community in just one year and 85,000 personal outcomes achieved overall, including 5,500 educational qualifications.
Following the announcement last summer of the partnership with Sport England, an extra 30,000 young people will be engaged over the next three years with a further 3,000 volunteers being trained.
Kicks has gained an excellent reputation and its format and approach to monitoring have been recognised as a model of best practice by the Audit Commission.
More about Kicks:
- Delivered in partnership with many police forces
- Funded nationally by the Premier League and Sport England, local funding is also required
- It began with three pilot projects in 2006
- There are now 47 Premier League and Football League clubs running PL Kicks
- In excess of 71,000 young people have been helped over the last eight years
- To register for the sessions please complete the form below, for more info please contact the team on 01254 475013
“This is a new project we are bringing to the area of Hyndburn and one that I am confident is going to be a huge success. We have a great relationship with the Premier League and it is great to be able to work together to provide this opportunity for the community.”
Martin Fearon, Community Trust Manager at Accrington Stanley
