Local and National Provision Task

Local and National Provision Task

National governing body is one of the biggest influences on children

and parents today. NGB does a lot of work on how to improve grassroots

in football .A lot of focus has been put on women's football and

development of their amateur football.

The football association has welcomed the news that its partner

Nationwide is making a 750,000 investment into womens football. This

money is to help the set up youth set ups all over england to help the

development of womens football. Research on behalf of the F.A has

shown that 1.4 million girls have taken part in some sort of

footballing activities on regular basis.

This survey found that 85 per cent of girls aged 7-15 in england took

part in some sort of football activity in recent months.As much as 65

per cent of that age group are playing at least once a week a figure

of 1.4 million.The figures for 2001-2002 season was 90,000 girls

played competitive football.

The F.A are now aiming to get those girls involved in

regular,organised club football through the new campaign 'join a

squad' which also seeks to target those who have drifted away from the

game in recent years. They will do this through advertisment through

the world cup initial group stages and will direct them to the revamp

and relauched F.A website. The F.A uses a new strategic departure to

promote the grassroots game and has recently increased levels of

football through England of both male an female and disabled football.

The F.A has a lt of money from sponsors and lottery and a share of 30

million pound will be spent on development of the some 40,000 Amateur

clubs and with two million registered players.

The F.A is channelling 30 million a year into the grassroots as part

of a process designed not just to halt but to reserve decades of

decline. This money will go towards higher standard of pitches,

changing rooms and facilities for clubs across England. Steve Parkin