Impact Portal: Longitudinal Survey Early Findings Report 2025

About

Bloomsbury Football Foundation (registered charity 1178842) is a London charity that uses football to improve the lives of young people, with a vision of a world where every young person has a safe place to play, a community to belong to and the tools to progress in life. It runs weekly training, school and holiday programmes, a Girls League, high engagement football and futsal, pan-disability, blind and partially sighted, and refugee and asylum seeker football, with financial support so that cost is not a barrier.

Key Metrics

Key Outcomes

• 90% of parents say their young person shows resilience, keeping going when things get hard, and 95% of young people have made friends from different national, ethnic or socioeconomic backgrounds
• 28.3% of participants aged 13 to 18 moved up a physical activity category between baseline and follow-up while only 4.0% moved down, a statistically significant 7:1 ratio of improvers to decliners (n = 350 paired observations)
• Young people who started with lower physical health ratings improved by 1.9 points on a 0-10 scale as rated by parents (Cohen's d = 0.94, n = 60)

Geography

London