You're doing brilliant work as part of your Active Through Football project. We've pulled together some resources to help you shout about it in the local media and on your social media channels.
As you will see on the template, you just need to edit the parts in yellow to ensure that it is relevant to your organisation and funding received.
Once this is done, email us for approval. After you've been given the thumbs up, you can forward on to local media. To compile a media list, you need to do a simple google search “local newspaper contacts in *insert county/city*”.
This will return the Contact Us web pages of numerous outlets. For example, you can see the results when searching “local media contacts in Hampshire” here.
Collate the Newsdesk and Editor contact details for outlets in your area and then email the press release to these contacts.
Below is some recommended wording to use in your covering email when sending the press release out to local media contacts.
Hello,
I am sure you will be interested to know about the National Lottery funding *insert club/organisation* has received as part of Active Through Football - a programme by Sport England and delivered by the Premier League, The FA and Government's Football Foundation. This funding has been used to *insert project details*.
Attached is a press release with more information about this.
Please feel free to get in touch with *insert name, position at club/organisation and telephone number/email* if you would like to know anything else about the project.
Please could you also send through any links to stories published online if you do cover this story.
Kind regards
We want you to celebrate the good news about the great work you're doing on social media and we’ve drafted some example posts below to get you started. Use this copy alongside some high-resolution images of your project and/or the highlights video. You can also link out to your press release if you post this on your digital channels.
Facebook:
Thanks to funding from Sport England through @TheNationalLotteryUK, we’ve been working hard to [insert project details e.g put on free chair movement classes etc] through the Active Through Football programme. The programme, delivered by @FootballFoundation1, has enabled us to increase activity levels in [insert place] by providing the activities local people want and need.
Twitter:
We've been providing [insert project details/session numbers] through the Active Through Football programme 🙌
The @Sport_England programme, funded by @TNLUK and delivered by @FootballFoundtn, offers the communities in [insert place] the activities they want and need.
Instagram:
We've been providing [insert project details/session numbers] through the Active Through Football programme 🙌
The @officialsportengland programme, funded by @tnluk and delivered by @FootballFoundation, offers the communities in [insert place] the activities they want and need.
If you'd like to publicise your grant using assets other than the ones we've provided on this page then it's important you use the correct branding. Click below to read Sport England's guidance on branding and download the appropriate logos.
Our recruitment pack is designed to help you ensure you've got your dedicated project management resource in place and are ready to hit the ground running with your project.
If you'd like to incorporate the Football Foundation's logo into the publicity for you project, click the button below to access and download.
Photography and video content can help bring your project to life and showcase the impact it's having on the local community. It’s especially important to include this content in social media posts and press releases to help grab the attention of your target audiences. Click the button below for more tips and tricks.