We are behind the EFL’s campaign ‘Together – Supporting Communities.'

FGR Community are supporting the 'Help for Households’ scheme where we provide a range of community services and matchday offers to help people in the current challenging economic times.

The scheme sees all EFL Clubs provide community services and matchday offers to help people in challenging economic times and will contribute towards the Government’s ‘Help for Households’ initiative.

EFL Clubs and their respective Club Community Organisations (CCOs) have already rolled out a variety of support to those hit the hardest, with foodbanks, clothing donations and even ‘heat hubs’ for members of disadvantaged communities in England and Wales.

Here are a few examples of how we are helping our communities.

Programmes being run to support our community include: 

• Soccer camps and holiday activities with free places for children who receive free school meals

• Christmas party with half the places free of charge.

• PL Kicks sessions: from January 2023, we will run free sports sessions for young people aged eight–18.

• FGR Talk Club: for men aged 18+ Talk Club is a free to access talking and listening club for men hosted in a private and safe space on Facebook.

• Additionally, our programmes such as Fit2Last, Premier League Primary Stars and matchday food sessions for schools are being subsidised to reflect the costs for the end users/customers.

• Affordable sports kit: We run kit, clothes, and boot swaps, Led by the FGR Ambassadors and Community Team. We also recycle and donate club kit and excess stock throughout the season.

• Our annual Free Shirt offer allows us to distribute 400 free shirts and matchday tickets for year three pupils and an accompanying adult at the start of each season.

Supporting vulnerable community members: Our work to support vulnerable people in our community includes -

• Making referrals into the Food Bank, KidsStuff and Warm and Well and HomeStart

• Taking referrals for befriending, garden gates visits and calls. Contact our community wellbeing and development team on community@fgr.co.uk 

• Working with care homes to deliver activities promoting physical activity, health and wellbeing and social inclusion

• Sharing vouchers of to £5 and family tickets (two adults, two children) to be given out to vulnerable families locally when they access Arkell Pantry 

• Setting up a bank account to handle donations of winter fuel allowance or government assistance

• Warm Space provision: We work with other partners to facilitate the Arkell Pantry to run a coffee and chat warm space at the Arkell Centre in Nailsworth. This currently takes place on the first Monday of the month, 8.30am - 12pm and will run weekly from January.  This is supported by local volunteers, Morrisons and Club food partners. Volunteers are also needed to support this: please contact community@fgr.co.uk

Supporting local community groups 

We have a range of activity to support local community groups, schools and charities, including (Please contact community@fgr.co.uk for more information):

• Community stand offer: free tickets for schools, universities, grass roots clubs, uniformed organisations, emergency services, charities and community groups, families in financial need and first-time fans, available at every match 

• Donating and distributing leftover food from matchday  

• Gifting food and drink from Club food partners for community initiatives 

• Appointing a Community Development Worker for Forest Green and Nailsworth 

• Donating gifts to local partners at Christmas and supporting HomeStart’s Christmas party 

• Offering room hire for community users (and for charities for a donation - please contact hospitality@fgr.co.uk for more information) 

• Offering our Supporter’s Club free room hire for fundraising events (please contact hospitality@fgr.co.uk for more information)

• Ticket offers such as Under 11’s go free all season.

• FGR Ambassador season tickets are free and come with a half price adult ticket (shared when Ambassadors register with FGR Community).

• Kid’s Go Free tickets five times a year for fans aged under 16.

• Season Ticket Holder offer such as for FGR vs Burton Albion on Thursday 29th December 2022, season ticket holders can bring a friend for free.

You can donate to FGR Community, here.