Kick it Out - Lets Kick Racism Out of Football

August 8th, 2008 by SM Dev (ste)

SoccerManager.com is pleased to announce that we are going to help promote Kick It Out.

What is Kick It Out?

Kick It Out is football’s anti-racism campaign . The brand name of the campaign - Let’s Kick Racism Out of Football - was established in 1993. Kick It Out works throughout the football, educational and community sectors to challenge racism and work for positive change.

The campaign is supported and funded by the game’s governing bodies, including founding body the Professional Footballers Association (PFA), the FA Premier League, the Football Foundation and The Football Association.

What are their core priorities?

Professional football - Working with the professional game by offering advice and guidance on all aspects of race equality within professional football;
Young people - Using the appeal of the game to address young people within schools, colleges and youth organisations, through the development and delivery of resources and educational materials;
Amateur football - Working at grassroots and amateur levels to tackle racial abuse and harassment in parks football;
Asians in football -Raising the issue of the exclusion of south Asians as professional footballers from the game;
Ethnic Minorities and Sport - Capacity building ethnic minority communities to engage with professional clubs, the structures of the game and access funding;
European football -Developing partnerships to raise the debate and tackle racism in European football.

How does it work?

Central to Kit It Out’s strategy is the development of partnerships that bring together foootballing organisations with communities to work in partnership on problems of exclusion and discrimination.

At a national level the coming together of representative groups in the game with Kick It Out allows the campaign to raise issues from communities directly with those at the highest level of the football industry.

At a local level Kick It Out works to bring together appropriate groupings in the different areas of our work. For example, in working to eradicate the problem of racism in the amatuer game partnerships of ethnic minority football clubs, local authorities, County FA’s and local leagues are formed.

Similarly, in redressing the problems of racism within the professional game - partnerships between the club, local community groups, supporters representatives and local authorities are developed in order to ensure that the expertise to deliver plans of action is available. Those who have been historically excluded from the game have a key role to play through the involvement of community groups.

Many of the key successes of the Kick It Out campaign, if not all, are as a result of dynamic partnerships.

Let’s Kick Racism Out of Football advert:

SoccerManager.com will promote Kick It Out within our site, and we will use our blog to announce any important news regarding their Let’s Kick Racism Out of Football campaign as well as any events which they plan.

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