Trust lauded for helping people live happier and healthier lives
Blackpool FC Community Trust (BFCCT) is proud to announce the launch of its 2024/2025 Impact Review.
This showcases the charity’s continued dedication to supporting people in Blackpool to live happier, healthier lives through social engagement, education and physical activity programmes.
Last season brought many challenges but also significant successes for BFCCT, which the charity, Blackpool FC, fans, and the wider community can celebrate.
The key highlights for the Trust, included our BFC School achieving a ‘Good’ Ofsted rating in November.
The team do an incredible job supporting young people who have not had the best relationship with education, and to see the school rated so highly helps make the more challenging days much easier.
We also focused on managing Montgomery Academy’s sports facilities and making them available for the community outside school hours.
We have ambitious plans to further develop the site and aim to make it as successful as Aspire Sports Hub.
This year, we expanded our town-wide weight management offer, Active Minds sessions promoting positive mental health through football, and our men’s five-a-side leagues.
These initiatives support a group in our community that we felt previously lacked sufficient provision, and they are now well attended and positively received.
Impact in Numbers
Total participants: 28,692, representing 19.8% of the Blackpool population.
Total sessions delivered: 17,793.
Total raised to deliver our projects: £3,112,419.
More than 7,000 healthy meals provided on our HAF Camps.
Across our secondary, further and higher education provision, we had more than 2,000 participants.
In partnership with The BIG Food Truck, we provided more than 14 tonnes of food to our community.
CEO Ashley Hackett said: “This year has really shown what can happen when the club, community and partners pull in the same direction.
"From supporting young people in education to improving adults’ health and wellbeing, we’ve continued to grow and adapt to what Blackpool needs most. I’m proud of how our team keeps finding new ways to make a difference and create lasting change for local people.”
The 2024/25 Impact Review can be assessed online at https://bit.ly/IR-24-25