Goals4Girls

Who we are

Goals 4 Girls is a multi-award winning and one of the leading educational charities in the UK. Established in 2011, we have undergone impressive growth in the past couple of years and are now at an exciting stage of our journey. To date we have worked with over 1,500 students, providing over 150,000 hours of intervention across Secondary school programmes in London. Alongside this, we have built strong partnerships with a host of brands such as Adidas and created innovative and exciting content of young women and girls.

Our mission is clear in providing sustainable development pathways and long-lasting impact amongst disengaged young women and girls in the UK. Goals 4 Girls exists to support and raise the aspirations of young women and girls aged 8-16, through the power of football within the UK’s most marginalised communities.

We are a female-led, personal, and social development organisation that delivers programmes designed by the girls, for the girls. We are driven by a desire to break down barriers through football and mentorship in education. Placing our participants at the heart of everything we do. From decisions made at Senior Leadership and our Board, to how we design our programmes and activations with partners to ensure young women and girls get the most out of them. We’re working in a system that has been designed to limit the potential of many young women and girls, and we know that to make real change, we need to work hard and differently to make their voices heard!

We do this through our well-being, sports and education programme where we tackle the following: low educational attainment, school engagement, challenging behaviour, sports participation and social barriers all in the hope of developing better community cohesion and inspiring young women and girls to thrive at school, making a successful transition into adulthood.

Core focuses for us are:

• Increasing young people’s physical wellbeing

• Improving mental wellbeing

• Growing peer relationships

• Developing positive attitudes towards sport and physical activity