A fundraising appeal for Heslington Community Sports Centre in York has raised more than £2,250 in a matter of days, after vandals caused extensive damage to the clubhouse in the early hours of Saturd …
McDonald’s has committed to four more years of its Fun Football programme. The renewal puts the focus on giving more children the chance to play and on making the grassroots game more inclusive. The p …
Swale Combined Athletics Club has opened a refurbished long jump runway after a fundraising campaign brought together its athletes, families and local businesses to fund the £14,070 project. Half of t …
The Independent Football Regulator (IFR) has published a draft of its first State of the Game report, a detailed review of the finances and governance of English football’s top five tiers. It found th …
England will host the Netball World Cup for the fourth time in 2031, with Manchester’s Co-op Live confirmed as the venue for the tournament’s 18th edition. The news came in England Netball’s centenary …
AFC Pegasus Colchester FC has calculated that it creates £1,227,400 of social value a year, using a new estimator available through Essex FA. The figure is linked specifically to the Colchester consti …
Gillette will reimburse eligible UK grassroots footballers for the £10 fine that can follow a yellow card for removing their shirt after scoring, with the offer opening on 10 October. It is part of th …
Old Colwyn Golf Club has opened a water recycling system that it hopes will remove the need for mains water when maintaining their course. The system was officially opened by the Mayor of Old Colwyn, …
During the extended international break, Oliver Glasner welcomed 20 local coaches and a class of nine and ten-year-olds into Nottingham Forest's Nigel Doughty Academy for a day built entirely around g …
Fulledge Colts has introduced 100 pairs of period-integrated football shorts for its female players, a kit change that directly addresses one of the clearest reasons girls stop playing sport during th …
Linda McMahon set up Linda Mac Tennis Coaching in September 2025 with the fairly modest ambition of getting more local children onto a tennis court. A year on, more than 700 children across North Here …
Ian Eynon has received the Special Recognition Award at the 2026 FAW & McDonald's Grassroots Football Awards, recognising more than 25 years spent building disability football provision across Pembrok …
Manchester City have been found guilty on 114 of the 115 charges brought against them by the Premier League in February 2023. The independent commission's ruling, confirmed by the league on 29 Septemb …
Ranked as the best golf course in mid-Wales, Llandrindod Wells Golf Club boasts a championship quality course with spectacular views of the surrounding valleys. The club has also had a driving range s …
Mark and Amy Gordon founded Woodmansterne Women's CC with the intention of providing fun, accessible club cricket for women in the area, but they and their club went on to achieve a lot more than that …
Grassroots sport asks a great deal of its people. Behind every match, every training session, every clubhouse still standing, there’s a committee of volunteers keeping the whole thing going. Most of t …
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