The Fulham FC Community Sports Trust (CST) will, effective from the beginning of the 2009-10 season, be re-titled the Fulham FC Foundation. The re-branding of the Club’s successful community scheme follows a re-alignment of a number of its strategic objectives to best reflect its charitable status, and the work it carries out within the nine London and Surrey boroughs that it covers.
Fulham Football Club’s CST has been operating in its various forms for nearly 20 years and was awarded its charitable status in 2005, which was officially launched at the House of Commons in 2006, showcasing a number of its ground breaking initiatives.
The re-branding from CST to Fulham FC Foundation is a natural development and better reflects the charity’s vision and objectives. Through a number of projects delivered in areas of social inclusion, healthy living and disability sports, the Foundation aims to increase participation in high quality sport and physical activity, improve the health and well being of people and contribute to the reduction of youth crime and anti-social behaviour through sport and alternative activities.
Steven Day, of the Foundation, said:
‘The use of football as a vehicle to raise awareness of social and health issues within communities has proved successful, in Fulham Football Club’s case for nearly twenty years. The renaming of the CST to Fulham FC Foundation will provide everyone associated with Fulham Football Club a better opportunity to live and understand the values of the Foundation and be proud of the influence it has on the lives of people within our communities. The aim of the Fulham FC Foundation is to continue to deliver inspirational initiatives and to encourage long-term lifestyle changes to the communities our projects serve.’
