We are honoured to be an official corporate partner to the incredible organisation Street Soccer Academy, who are an award winning charity based in the North West of England. Utilising the sport of football SSA provides support to disadvantaged individuals, helping deal with issues related to poor mental health, employment/training, homelessness & offending behaviour. Established in 2011 as a registered charity, with origins dating back to 2005, Street Soccer Academy is an England Football Accredited Club, an associate member of the Manchester County FA and AQA Accredited learning centre.

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We are proud to have sponsored Bury Foundation Under 11’s Lightning Girls Football team

Bury Girls & Ladies Football Club started in the summer of 1996 to provide a group of girls with an opportunity to play football. It was just one team at that time. An association with Bury FC was formed and plans put in place to grow the Club. Several years later and the Club boasted girls’ teams at all age groups from U10s through to adult and became a big name in the region for providing a quality football provision for female football.

In 2017 Bury Foundation Under 11’s Lightning Girls Football Team became the official grassroots arm of Bury FC Community Trust and in turn became Bury FC Boys & Girls, as they now provided a provision for boy’s football too. This partnership continued to flourish regardless of the issues at Bury FC.

In 2021, some 25 years later, with approximately 30 teams offering walking, vets, disability and recreational football alongside their regular boys, girls, Women’s and men’s provision they became Bury FC Foundation. With this diverse range of opportunities, the words ‘boys & girls’ became a little extinct. The term ‘foundation’ encompasses the collective opportunities they can offer at their home ground Goshen, including their fantastic 3G pitches which were funded by The Football Foundation and are managed by Bury Football Foundation..

The Enterprise Centre is a registered Charity, it also trades under the name of Naturally Enterprising from our bespoke education and conservation centre. This amazing facility is situated in the heart of the Kirklees Valley Nature Reserve and is purpose-built to provide outdoor Alternative Education provision with equine assisted learning, learning with horses and equine therapy Bury.

They host a range of other innovative, creative and enterprising projects using a combination of learning with horses and therapy, the great outdoors, conservation, enterprise skills, art therapy, health and well-being coaching, teamwork and confidence building. They help young people,  women and NEETs develop their self-esteem and aspire to great things for themselves and their communities.

Middleton Select Boxing Club is a CASC Charity (Community Amateur Sports Club) which provides a safe environment for the local community to learn the art of boxing. They promote values of sportsmanship, teamwork and fair play and pride themselves on being a welcoming and inclusive club. Based in one of the most deprived areas of Greater Manchester, Middleton Select help people of all ages to direct their energies in a positive direction, building community and support for all.