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LFC IN THE COMMUNITY
People don't care how much we know until they know how much we care
Liverpool Football Club's Community department has gone from strength to strength since it was formed in 2000. We are a dynamic and thriving department that works very closely with the local community and are involved in a whole host of various activities both locally and world wide.
Please see below some of our Community projects and click on the title to find out more infomation.
Truth 4 Youth Assemblies
Signal 4 You
Coaching 4 All
Respect 4 All
Sweeperzone
Charity 4 Others
Kick It, Kick Off
Young Person of the Year Awards
Footie 4 Ladies
Tournaments 4 Teams
Kick Racism Out Of Football
Kickz
Tactics 4 Families
Extra Activities
Contact Us
Our community department works closely with young children and we visit all the local schools throughout the Merseyside region giving assemblies. We are happy to say that our assemblies reached over 12,000 school children last year and are continuing this year with our community staff visiting local and regional schools taking along the European Cup and our messages.
The topics of these assemblies talk about contemporary issues highlighting the harmful effects of drug use, bullying, racism and violence. Also offering a message of unity with Liverpool 's famous words of 'You 'll Never Walk Alone'
We have 6 Key Messages for Primary schools including singing and competitions and more Key Messages for Secondary Schools including hard facts and statistics. The mottoes chosen by the Liverpool FC Community team are:
'KICK DRUGS INTO TOUCH'
'GIVE BULLYING THE BOOT'
'SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD'
'WE IS BETTER THAN ME'
'MORE IMPORTANT THAN BEING A GOOD FOOTBALLER IS BEING A GOOD PERSON'
and 'YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE.'
The Truth 4 Youth school assembly programme continues to be a huge success in schools throughout Merseyside. We have also introduced new slogans:
'SHOOT GOALS NOT GUNS'
'KNIVES ARE FOR EATING NOT FOR FIGHTING '
and 'BEFORE YOU PLEASE THINK DISEASE.'
These being aimed at older pupils in secondary schools.
'The issues that the team tackled were pertinent and important. They dealt with difficult issues like bullying sensitively and with great insight through the use of music and good humour. '
Head teacher Middlefield Community Primary School
'Best assembly we ever had '
Pupils of Sandfield Park School
'The children were both entertained and educated to a very high standard. Staff and pupils found the experience very worthwhile and the team left us with positive messages which remain with us for some time. '
Headteacher All Saints Primary School
Liverpool midfielder Momo Sissoko donated some of his time to help us spread our positive messages to school children in Merseyside by taking part in one of our Truth 4 Youth assemblies at All Saints Catholic Primary School in Anfield.
 Momo helped our team deliver the message of 'Show Racism The Red Card' talking about times in his own life when he has experienced racism.
 Momo joined in singing songs with us and with all the school pupils and the schools Head Teacher Jeremy Barnes said 'It was a tremendous experience for all the pupils.'
If you are interested in us coming to your school for an assembly then you can call or email us on the contact details at the bottom of this page.
LFC has worked with Liverpool Hope University on a new scheme called Signal Project.
Hope students attend the assemblies with LFC Community coaches and then work with that school for the following week. The students work with the Truth 4 Youth slogans but in various other ways ie. through dance, drama, music and workshops. The signal Project was launched with an evening of performances by school children at Liverpool Lighthouse.
Football wise, the community team take youngsters for general football coaching in mainstream schools, after school clubs, community centres, special needs schools and adult day care centres.
 The LFC Community Coaches have been holding soccer camps away from Anfield in Ireland and Germany. In April 2007 the coaches were in Ireland for 11 days holding 3 soccer camps. In Ballymena the coaches held a three day session to over 1,200 children. There were over 300 children each day in Upper Shankhill and whilst the coaches did a presentation to all the children, parents and the Bishops talked about the Truth 4 Youth slogans. The coaches also visited a special needs school and the children's cancer ward at the hospital. In Carrick Fergus the coaches were joined by LFC ladies who played, and won, in a local tournament. In Germany the coaches were placed in the army barracks at Osnabruck coaching the children whose parents are stationed there. There was a three day camp to over 130 children, every day aged 15 to 17.
Upcoming camps in Summer 2007 include Sweden, Norway, Cork, Dublin and Belfast.
'To a lot of people in this area they are the face of Liverpool Football Club and the work they do really promote the club in a positive, caring way. '
Sister Valerie Thom, Belfast
 Our department was busy over this Summer 2007 providing free coaching sessions at the Anfield Sports Community Centre, Sefton Park, Stanley Park, Kensington and Garston. This year also saw us teaching netball and rounders at the ASCC. We would like to thank everybody that took part in our summer programme.
Our disability work has continued to grow over the past year. During 2006-2007 our LFC Community Coaches provided quality football coaching in over 25 Special Needs Schools coaching football to children with various disabilites. Also throughout last season LFC held 2 football tournaments for children and adults with physical disabilities and learning disabilities which were held at the LFC Academy.
The LFC Respect 4 All Disability Centre will be starting from 8th September 2008 with disability coaching running every night of the week for people aged 12-16 years.
The centre will have impairment specific evenings running throughout the year including sessions for people who are visually impaired, physically disabled, have severe learning difficulties and are wheelchair users.
Tuesday 6-7pm
Severe learning difficulties
Wednesday 6-7pm
Visually Impaired
Thursday 6-7pm
Physically disabled (non wheelchair users)
Friday 6-7pm
Wheelchair users
This centre is completely free and takes place in St Margaret's CE School in Aigburth. This is an indoor disability accessible venue with car parking facilities and a viewing classroom and tea and coffee available for parents or guardians.
For more information don't hesitate to contact us at:
community.department@liverpoolfc.tv
From 2007 Season LFC Community disability coaches are initiating a new scheme within our Respect 4 All work.
 The goverment is encouraging schemes which will raise awareness of disabilities in sport. As a result, our Community Department has produced a Disability Awareness Programme which will initially focus on the blind.
Our coaches will be going into schools and presenting this scheme to classes with the aim of showing the difficulties of playing sport with a disability, while at the same time teaching how to adapt to the situation and have a good time playing.
If you would be interested to know more or if you wish to get involved please contact us via the infomation at the bottom of this page.
Liverpool Football Club are proud to have 4 Pan-disabled football teams for children and adults with various disabilities one of which is an under 16's boys team. All teams train weekly and play competitive games against other premier league and league clubs on a monthly basis.
In July 2007 LFC adult disability team were crowned North West Ability Counts league winners, North West Ability County Cup Winners and National FA Cup Final Winners. The team were presented with the FA Cup at David Beckhams academy Millennium Dome London. Well done guys!
 Over Summer 2007 Liverpool Football Club, Werder Bremen and FC Basel held a special needs coaching camp in Switzerland. Disabled players from all teams had a wonderful trip and also got the chance to watch their favourite teams train and play.
Members of the adult disability team returned to Switzerland again this summer 2008 for a training camp and they also got to meet the LFC first team during their pre-season training.
The Sweeper Zone, now in its 5th season, continues to go from strength to strength.
This year we have groups from locals schools, sports centres, youth centers and resident/community groups.
As usual every home game we have 25 young people who collect litter from the streets surrounding the stadium and then get to watch the game with a free match tickets.
The SweeperZone groups also received Environmental Citizen of the Year Award from Liverpool City Council.
In partnership with Enterprise-Liverpool, we have a new red SweeperZone vehicle. The vehicle cleans the streets, not just in the grounds vicinity, but all over the Anfield/Breckfield and after the game the streets cleaners also work keeping Anfield clean and tidy.
Also for this season we have new banners erected round the Anfield/Breckfield area.
The new banners are red and green and show the logos of the new partnerships, Arena, Anfield/Breckfield vision, Enterprise-Liverpool and NMS.
Liverpool Football Club's community department also send LFC training kits to children and adults in Third World countries.
Over the last two years we have been involved with Alsop High School and Merseyside Police in the Kick It, Kick Off project. This involves school girls and boys working alongside the Police tackling and discussing issues that surround drugs, alcohol, healthy lifestyles and smoking awareness. The children also receive coaching at the LFC Academy by Community Coaches. At the end of the six week course the children are rewarded with a tour of Anfield. The scheme is also active in Dundee, Scotland and Alsop have travelled to Scotland to play there project.
The young person of the year awards is an annual event that awards children who have shown bravery, courage, commitment and caring to others and the environment. In previous years Liverpool Captain, Steven Gerrard and also Jamie Carragher have attended the event. All guests are treated to a meal at anfield and entertainment featuring performances from local young people.
The SweeperZone groups also received Environmental Citizen of the Year Award from Liverpool City Council.
At the Young Person of the Year awards in March 2006, the Liverpool Reserve team came to celebrate all of the achievements.
Our awards in 2007 was once again attended by Jamie Carrgher and was introduced by Rick Parry. The evening held in November 2007 was another success rewarding local youth groups and secondary school children. We would like to thank everyone who attended including a special thanks to Rick Parry, Jamie Carragher and his wife.
The Liverpool FC Ladies teams have been very successful in the 2006/2007 season winning The Northern Premiership and 6 Welsh Internationals! The Ladies Reserve team won the league and the Ladies Under 16's won the league and won the County Cup!
Congratulations ladies!
The annual emergency services football tournament, now in its 4th year was held earlier this year at the LFC Academy. Three fire services, three ambulance and two police teams competed and after a penalty shootout we said congratulations to the eventual winner Birkenhead fire service. A new trophy was also commissioned in the memory of fire fighter Chris Bebb with Chief Fire Officer Tony McGuirk presenting the prize to members of Chris's family.
Earlier this year Anfield Youth Club received a £600,000 investment from Barclays Spaces for Sport initiative, supported by the Football Foundation. A new roof, fitness room and two additional activity rooms are now to be built and outside astro turf pitches. The Chancellor, Gordon Brown along with sports Minister Richard Caborn, Premier League Chairman David Richards were joined by LFC Chief Executive Rick Parry, Manager Rafa Benitez, Captain Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and local school children to launch the funding package.
LFC in the Community is proud to KICK RACISM OUT OF FOOTBALL and with the local community groups in Toxteth with a young adults tournament held at the Liverpool Academy! And a primary school event at Park Road Sports Centre. The young adult winners from the Arabic community and the primary school St. Sebastian's went out onto the pitch at the Premiership home game against Charlton Athletic holding the anti-racism banner and then stayed and watched the match!!
Goals Through Football
Do you want to get a kick out of playing football'
Kickz is a new football based community project that aims to engage with young people aged 12-18 years using local ball parks and facilities
All sessions are fully supervised and are delivered in a safe environment
All coaches are FA qualified, hold a First Aid Certificate and have been Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checked.
Kickz will give you the opportunity to:
Train with professional football coaches
Learn and develop new skills and abilities
Get fit and be healthy
Make friends & have fun
Kickz Programme
3 Sessions per week
Throughout the year (except public holidays)
 Opportunities to represent KICKZ and compete at a national level at fellow premiership/football league clubs across the UK.
If this sounds interesting get your application & consent form from:
Forbes Duff
LFC In The Community
Email: community.department@liverpoolfc.tv
Working in partnership with Positive Futures we have been running a Football Focus course which consists of 8 weeks football coaching, with the last 4 weeks being held at the Academy. Also a new Late Night League has been set up for local youth in the Anfield/Breackfield area. The teams play every Monday night at the new astro turf at Anfield Youth Club.
Our Tactics 4 Families initiative is aimed at supporting families within the community.
The key messages we promote through the initiative are:
WORK AS A TEAM and you'll get better results
GET OFF THE BENCH and get stuck into family life
TALK A GOOD GAME and listen too
SING YOUR SUPPORT to encourage each other
PLAY BY THE RULES and respect each other's boundaries
GET UP;DON'T GIVE UP because even the best players make mistakes
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE if you are part of a community
We work in partnership with community organisations, helping them to run projects which encourage and support strong family relationships, such as:
Family fun days
Parenting support programmes
Dads, lads & lasses football coaching
Mums, daughters and sons sports sessions
Our schools programme has been particularly well received in Merseyside primary schools. We work with year 5 and 6 pupils to deliver a specially designed programme covering the Tactics 4 Families key messages.
The programme consists of:
3 classroom lessons.
1 sports hall lesson.
1 session for the children and their parents/carers together.
This programme contributes to meeting the National Curriculum PSHE objectives.
The Tactics 4 Families initiative is supported by the Premier League and Professional Footballers Association Community Fund.
JAMIE CARRAGHER OPENS BUNGALOW
Wednesday the 6th February 2008 was a wonderful day for our special friends at the Thursday Club and the Alderwood Centre. Jamie Carragher was the guest of honour at the opening of the Priory bungalow, a home for four ladies, Jenny, Cathy, Kelly and Mary.
Later that afternoon, the Alderwood centre, enjoyed a keep fit session and question and answers time with Jamie and BBC Radio 1 DJ Spoony. The whole afternoon was great fun and a real success.
Jamie was terrific on the day and thanks to him for his time, fun, care and compassion.
HAPPY 800th BIRTHDAY LIVERPOOL!
 Our community team recently helped the City of Liverpool celebrate its 800th Birthday by taking part in the city's birthday parade.
Thousands turned up to see the official birthday parade which started at St George's Hall and then travelled along Dale Street past the Town Hall along Castle Street and Lord Street before returning to St George's Hall. Members of our LFC Community Department including some of our coaches and office staff represented the club along with children from North Liverpool Academy who had been working with us on our Summer 2007 coaching programme. We walked in the section named "Football Magic" accompanied by representatives from Everton FC and Tranmere FC. There was a great turn out and Liverpool FC was proud to take part. Thanks to all that came out to see the parade!
If you would like to contact us with feedback about any of our community projects or would like further infomation about getting involved with anything that you have seen above please see the Contact Us option on the top of this web page.
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