Starlizard Integrity Services supports community programmes, working with grassroots and charitable organisations to ensure that we can take the menace of match-fixing and produce a positive effect. We therefore divert a proportion of all generated income from the provision of our integrity services and put it back into communities and sport.
We are proud to support the excellent work undertaken by the Children’s Football Alliance (CFA). Formed in 2008, the CFA works tirelessly throughout communities to engage with young people and deliver child focused football projects, including the Global Peace Games, the Peace Fields Project and Children’s Football Week. These are all designed to increase inclusion and improve inter-generational relationships, providing benefits for young people, ethnic minorities, migrants, refugees, special needs, families, disadvantaged and vulnerable children.
Stakeholders
Action for Children, http://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/
Anti-Bullying Alliance, http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/
Alliance For Childhood, http://www.allianceforchildhood.org.uk/
Arsenal Football Club in the Community, https://www.arsenal.com/community
Boost, http://www.boostct.org/
Bullying UK, http://www.bullying.co.uk/
British Council, http://www.britishcouncil.org/
Catch 22, http://www.catch-22.org.uk/
Children’s Commissioner, http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/
Chris Green Media, http://chrisgreenmedia.co.uk
Day Trippers, http://www.daytrippers.org.uk/
Don’t X The Line, http://www.dontxtheline.com
Duncan Edwards United, https://duncanedwardsunited.com/
Early Years Alliance, early years alliance | (eyalliance.org.uk)
Endas-Ente Nazionale Democratico di Azione Sociale, http://www.endas.it/htm/ita/home.html
English Schools Football Association, http://www.esfa.co.uk/esfa/
Families Need Fathers, http://www.fnf.org.uk/
Family Lives, http://familylives.org.uk/
Fair Play, http://www.fair-play.co.uk/
Fatherhood Institute, http://www.fatherhoodinstitute.org/
Football Association, http://www.thefa.com/
Football is More, http://www.footballismore.org/
Football League Trust, https://www.efl.com/
Football Supporters Federation, http://www.fsf.org.uk/
GroepINTRO, https://www.groepintro.be/nl/
Hart Brown Solicitors, http://www.hartbrown.co.uk/
JLL, http://www.joneslanglasalle.co.in/india/en-gb/about
Kits 4 Causes, http://www.kits4causes.org/
Let’s Kick Racism Out of Football, http://www.kickitout.org/
Liverpool FC’s Tactics for Families, http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/community/tactics-4-families
Little Kickers, http://www.littlekickers.co.uk/
Manchester Metropolitan University, http://www.mmu.ac.uk/
Muslim Women’s Sports Foundation, http://www.mwsf.org.uk/
National Council for Voluntary Youth Services, https://www.ncvo.org.uk/
Ministry of Football, http://www.ministry-of-football.com/
National Children’s Bureau, http://www.ncb.org.uk/
National Deaf Children’s Society, http://www.ndcs.org.uk/
One Parent Families, http://www.opfs.org.uk/
One World Play Project, http://www.oneworldplayproject.com/
Peace Village, http://www.peacevillage.be/
Professional Footballers Association, http://www.thepfa.com/
Play England, http://www.playengland.org.uk/
Play Scotland, http://www.playscotland.org/
Premier League, http://www.premierleague.com/
Rethinking Childhood, http://rethinkingchildhood.com/
Show Racism the Red Card, http://www.srtrc.org/
Schools Out, http://www.schools-out.org.uk/
Sports Circus International Ltd, http://www.sports-circus.com/
Sport and Development, http://www.sportanddev.org/en/about_this_platform/
Sue Palmer, http://www.suepalmer.co.uk/
Starlizard, http://www.starlizard.com/integrity-services/
The Sir Tom Finney Preston Soccer Centre, https://sirtomfinneysc.co.uk/
TW Academy, http://www.twacademy.org/home/
Young Minds, http://www.youngminds.org.uk/
UNICEF, http://www.unicef.org/
United Nations Sport for Development and Peace, http://graduateinstitute.ch/home/students/careerServices/students/who-hires/public-sector/unosdp.html
Brunel University, http://www.brunel.ac.uk/
University of Kent, http://www.kent.ac.uk/
University of Gloucestershire, http://www.glos.ac.uk/
University of Leicester, http://www2.le.ac.uk/
University of Nottingham, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/
US Alliance For Childhood, http://www.allianceforchildhood.eu/united-states
International Children’s Football Alliance
AUSTRALIA, http://www.uts.edu.au/
ARGENTINA, https://www.facebook.com/LaNuestraFutFem/
BELGIUM, https://www.clubbrugge.be/en
CANADA, http://valourcc.ca/
CZECH REPUBLIC, https://en.slavia.cz/zobraz.asp?t=klub-kontakty& https://www.fotbal.je/
CROATIA, https://www.childrensfootballalliance.com/football-and-peace/croatia/
CYPRUS, https://www.aisc.ac.cy/wp-content/cache/all/index.html
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC of CONGO. http://www.ariverofhope.org//
FIJI, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marist_Brothers_High_School,_Fiji
GERMANY, http://www.humboldt-gymnasium.de/joomla/
GHANA, http://ghanaschools.info/listing/wa-senior-high-school/
INDIA, https://www.facebook.com/wheelinghappiness/
ITALY, http://www.endas.it/htm/ita/home.html
JAPAN, https://www.childrensfootballalliance.com/football-and-peace/japan/
NEW ZEALAND, https://www.childrensfootballalliance.com/football-and-peace/southland-football/
SAMOA, https://www.facebook.com/SJCSamoa/reviews?locale=en_GB
SCOTLAND https://www.childrensfootballalliance.com/football-and-peace/denis-law-legacy-trust/
SWITZERLAND. Football Is More, http://www.footballismore.org/
USA, http://www.bifc.net/whoweare
Trustee
The CFA are currently seeking a Trustee. If you feel that you can add value to the Charity please write a letter of interest and email it to : info@thecfa.co.uk
Jobs
Head of Marketing
(Volunteer)
CFA are predominantly a volunteer organisation. We exist to protect childhood through play. Our volunteer workforce come from a diverse representation of football practitioners; grass roots game, professional game, primary, secondary, special needs and further education, key service agencies, parents, senior citizens, pupils and students.
If you feel you can give young people the opportunity and access to play football for fun in any format and provide an environment where all inclusion is a childhood right – then we would love to hear from you.
For more information: Please contact: Brendan Hanlon, CFA Chair
Volunteer Project Managers & Free v Free Facilitators
CFA are predominantly a volunteer organisation. We exist to protect childhood through play. Our volunteer workforce come from a diverse representation of football practitioners; grass roots game, professional game, primary, secondary, special needs and further education, key service agencies, parents, senior citizens, pupils and students.
If you feel you can give young people the opportunity and access to play football for fun in any format and provide an environment where all inclusion is a childhood right – then we would love to hear from you.
For more information: Please contact: Brendan Hanlon, CFA Chair
Case Studies
All CFA Stakeholders & Members are invited to submit case studies that highlight the power of children’s football (in any format) and any issues that the CFA community may find interesting. It is hoped that we can present a wide range of information about participants or small groups, frequently including the accounts of subjects themselves. A form of qualitative descriptive research, the case study looks intensely at an individual or small participant pool, drawing conclusions only about that participant or group and only in that specific context. If you have any questions please contact: info@thecfa.co.uk for more details.
FREE v FREE NCFW 2021National Children’s Football Week kicks off in parks, playgrounds and designated areas of play in your community. There will be no stress, win at all costs, fees or great expectations. FREE v FREE is mixed ability mixed gender and football for fun only. You are the organiser with or without adults. GLOBAL PEACE GAMES 2019In more than 40 countries there are traditions of Global Peace Games (GPGs) an initiative from the United Nations to raise the profile of peace through sport. The Flanders GPGs were inspired by the Christmas Truces of 1914 and how those symbolic moments of First World War history relate to the contemporary mission of The NCFA and our main project partner, The Peace Village, Messines, Belgium. This year’s 80 Ambassadors for Peace, originated from 17 countries and represented Belgium, England, Germany, Northern Ireland, Italy and India. |
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FREE v FREE NCFW 2019National Children’s Football Week in partnership Cirencester Town Football Club raised money for four charities; The NCFA, The Big Yellow bus project, which is a double decker bus to house homeless people in Cirencester. Shine, a post-natal depression support charity and a charity that is building a school for vulnerable girls in Zambia. Other events took place in Belfast, Liverpool and Salisbury. |
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GLOBAL PEACE GAMES 2018In more than 40 countries there are traditions of Global Peace Games (GPGs) an initiative from the United Nations to raise the profile of peace through sport. The Flanders GPGs were inspired by the Christmas Truces of 1914 and how those symbolic moments of First World War history relate to the contemporary mission of The NCFA and our main project partner, The Peace Village, Messines, Belgium. |
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FREE v FREE NCFW 2018National Children’s Football Week in partnership with Don’t X The Line, was hosted by Park Brow Community Primary School, Kirkby, Liverpool. The event raises the profile of the children’s game and the importance to protect childhood through play. Tony James, Head Teacher, said, ‘It was clear to see the benefits of loosely supervised play. Children enjoyed the event and their parents along with the teachers found it informative and fun’. |
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GLOBAL PEACE GAMES 2017In more than 40 countries there are traditions of Global Peace Games (GPGs) an initiative from the United Nations to raise the profile of peace through sport. The Flanders GPGs were inspired by the Christmas Truces of 1914 and how those symbolic moments of First World War history relate to the contemporary mission of The NCFA and our main project partner, The Peace Village, Messines, Belgium. |
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FREE v FREE NCFW 2017National Children’s Football Week acts as a reminder to parents, guardians, carers, facilitators, coaches, teachers and volunteers, that the children’s game does not have to branded, expensive, associated or dominated by adults. It is a simple game when played by children. It is a fun game owned by children. There is little room for the rules of a game that determines greed, aggression and win at all costs. It is time we reclaimed the children’s game. |
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PEACE FIELDS PROJECT (UK) 2016The Heritage Lottery Funded Peace Field Project reached over a thousand children that engaged in football and history for the first time. Five hub schools in Kent, England, twinned their designated areas of play with Flanders Peace Field, Messines, Belgium, site of the First World War Christmas Truces. |
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FREE v FREE NCFW 2015‘Grass roots football can learn a lot from pan disability football – if only it would listen’, David Ramzan, NCFA Special Educational Needs Manager. |
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PLAYGROUND FOOTBALLPlayground football is arguably one of the most important stages of any footballer. The environment lends itself to creativity, exploration, inventiveness, social skills and social inclusion so why do many schools fear facilitating the children’s game. |
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EASIER REPORT 2015During the Easier Project, 4 exchange visits took place between teachers and students from the partner schools. The EU funded project used the 1914 Christmas truces football games as a component for cross cultural learning. |
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GLOBAL PEACE GAMES REPORT 2014The GPGs is all about inspiring peace makers for the future. Inspired by the 1914, Christmas Truces, sport engages young people at a level where they can review the essence of play set in environment of where conflict resolution is key. |
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FOOTBALL & PEACE PROJECT 2014F&PP linked the escapism of play with the historic and explored conflict resolution. It provided young people with the opportunity to research their heritage in World War One through the medium of sport. |
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SUMMER OFF THE STREETS 2014Lots of young people are being priced out of play. Summer off the Streets facilitates football and many other activities for those children and parents that find it difficult to keep up with the demands for pay to play. |
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FREE v FREE NCFW 2014‘We need to get back and remember what football is all about it is a very simple game that can be played anywhere so these kind of events encourages these kind of thought processes’, Mark Burke, A Different Kind of Soccer Book. |
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A Week to Remember NCFW 2013“I can’t get into my local team and my school don’t have a football team. This was the best game of football ever and my mum watched me score a goal and save a shot.” Emma, aged 11 from Kent. |
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Family Skills ProjectThe impact of the project is having a positive and lasting effect in the family, in school where children are performing better and able to show greater respect, passed to them from their parents… |
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SUMMER OFF THE STREETS 2013The day was summed up neatly by fourteen year old Peter; “It was great fun, played so much football and loads of goals. I got to captain one team and really liked helping and encouraging the younger kids in the team.” |
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Egerton School NCFW 2012Organising a school football festival involving the entire school involving children in the design of the tournament… |
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NATIONAL CHILDREN’S FOOTBALL WEEK 2011To encourage football volunteers across all levels of the game to come together and provide a family environment facilitating FREE football for all children. … |
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UK’S LARGEST FEMALE FUTSALNCFA was founded by Ernie Brennan and formalized in 2008 under the guidance of National Children’s Bureau. Since its conception NCFA is now in a position where it is part of an extensive stakeholder network has the official support of the Football Association, PFA and Football League Trust (amongst many others) and has over 50 key stakeholders… |
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FROM GRANDPARENTS TO GRANDCHILDRENIT might seem a wholly bizarre stretching of a warped imagination to include European kings Barcelona and inner city-based Continental Star in the same sentence…. |
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FOOTBALL FOUNDATION DION DUBLIN FINALDion Dublin backs Football Foundation research into importance of community facilities… |
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SUMMER OFF THE STREETS 2012A free scheme in Cirencester gives children a fun day of football during the summer holidays… |
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KICK IT OUTKick It Out founder members of the NCFA have launched their Annual Report… |
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SCHOOLS OUTSCHOOLS OUT Founder Sue Sanders writes to inform the NCFA community about The Schools OUT Annual Conference which is coming up on the Saturday 5th February. It is at the Drill Hall Theatre, off Tottenham Court Road in London from 9.30am – 6.00pm. … |
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Raise Your GameCirencester Deer Park School is launching a six week behaviour management programme this month entitled Raise Your Game. It is football based and includes interactive sessions both in the classroom and on the pitch…. |
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The Justin CampaignEver felt like there are thousands of people against you? Well for hundreds, if not thousands, of football fans this happens every week when they go to watch their favourite football team. The reason: they are different to everybody else… |
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Positive FuturesChildren from Islington, London play football with children in Faversham, Kent. The event takes the form of an all-inclusive round robin football tournament. Mixed gender, mixed ability and mixed ethnicity children play in a loosely supervised tournament refereed by children…. |
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Training SoccerUEFA A Licence Coach, Tim Wareing, is from Belfast in Northern Ireland & has been coaching for over 15 years. He spent 7 years with Irish Premiership side, Lisburn Distillery. Here he held roles from Reserve Team Manager & U18 Manager before building a very successful youth set up as Academy Director…. |
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Prince Henry’s Grammar School‘You just don’t really hear people saying things like ‘that’s so gay’ at our school anymore. People stop and think about the words they are using now’. Megan, 15, is a speaking at a meeting of the Student Diversity Forum at Prince Henry’s Grammar School, Otley, where one year earlier members of the group had highlighted the commonplace use of homophobic language as an area which the school should address if it was serious about tackling all forms of discrimination and promoting equality for all…. |
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Ministry of FootballMinistry of Football is a small and growing football programme for families with children aged 3 to 14. We started operating in 2007 and now work with 100 families each week in our centres in Southgate and Muswell Hill in London. We offer weekly indoor sessions for boys and girls of all ability levels…. |
Children’s Rights
UPDATED 16 02 21
It’s been widely noted that the pandemic has adversely impacted our young people. It has also been said that their voices have remained largely unheard. This has led the British Science Association to call them ‘the forgotten generation’.
We can change this!
We can all make time for play and we can all call on sporting organisations to promote children’s rights when youth sports return.
In this letter, Salisbury Rovers is calling on The FA to recognise and promote the right to play and the right to be heard and to commit to promoting opportunities for informal play in our communities when football returns.
Take a look, follow the link to add your name and share as widely as possible!
The forgotten generation: listening to children and the right to play
INTRODUCTION TO CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
- Kids want different things https://drive.google.com/file/d/14CofUaR6joOBMpj_rxCe88_a1ZMGkvyk/view
- Kids still want to play out https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dzZvGQei7ZlVuwU083h8HDwT-JZ1QByr/view
- Let kids choose sides https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lqvyzx7bcgPIlH-GmuMH2IhASLnx-Ocj/view
5. Let kids run their teams https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kRc5LoNCg3osU7RMVUgsboieF81JIGa6/view
Health and Well-being
Overuse Injuries in Children
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons write; In recent years, doctors have begun to see a significant increase in overuse injuries in children. In most cases, these injuries are associated with sports-related activity. Sports participation promotes the physical and emotional well being of children, and also encourages the lifelong habit of exercise. Although the benefits of athletic activity are significant, too much activity can lead to injury.
Overuse injuries occur gradually over time, when an athletic activity is repeated so often, areas of the body do not have enough time to heal between playing. For example, overhand pitching in baseball can be associated with injuries to the elbow, and swimming is often associated with injuries to the shoulder. Because young athletes are still growing, they are at a greater risk for injury than adults. The consequences of overdoing a sport can include injuries that impair growth, and may lead to long-term health problems.
The NCFA sometimes receive emails from parents concerned about the amount of organised football their children are being asked to perform. We have had many discussions about over-use in children’s sport and the most concerning fact of the matter is that the age group starts as early as 7 years of age. In a recent trip to India we documented (AYUSH) the benefits of homoeopathy, along side allopathic treatments, from the following Homoeopathic Doctors.
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