Footballs For Fun

Here's how you can help

Buy footballs for yourself and for children in Africa.
Create publicity for Footballs For Fun and help spread the word.
Sell footballs on our behalf at your work place or from home, to clubs, local travel agents, sports clubs, children's groups. Remember a ball can raise up to 20 times its cost if it is signed by a famous football player or sportsman/woman or indeed a celebrity.
Buy one our famous balls; we have balls signed by Sir Cliff Richard, by the 2008 SA Cricket Team, by Chelsea stars; by leading SA politicians.
Provide us with sponsorship, in cash, time or facilities, so more footballs can be produced in different African national colours and so create happiness and alleviate sickness across the continent.
You can also volunteer to help at one of our events; a concert, selling balls at shows and exhibitions.

The future
Even though the World Cup is upon us – or even over, by the time you read this – we hope that there will be a demand from the much wider commercial sector, especially in SA, bearing in mind the globalisation of both business and football. Legacy, after all is the most important spin-off from the events of 2010.

There is enormous potential for using our very attractive balls for promotional purposes, for example by a Bank or Building Society wanting to reward young savers or borrowers; for the cell and mobile phone companies wanting to build business in all parts of Africa; for supermarkets or small shop to sell to their customers; the list is endless, really. (See how to buy a customised ball).

Football knows no social or geographic boundaries and neither does our idea. Originally conceived to help British travellers and tourists take a meaningful gift when on safari or holiday in southern Africa, there is no reason for it not to extend, for example, to Americans visiting Senegal, to Germans going to the beaches of Kenya; to the French going to Algeria and Burkino Faso.

While we currently operate from bases in London and Cape Town, we would welcome enquiries from those in countries throughout the world who appreciate this simple opportunity to give a unique gift with a charitable element.

And after 2010, could not the idea be used for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil?

Where will funds go?
We need to get bigger sums of money, more quickly, if we are to have balls in the colours of say 20 African nations – and well-distributed in each country by 2010 – so that each shipment becomes not only self-liquidating, but also self-sufficient, generating funds for the next order, if possible. Clearly, we need to be more visible. The idea behind Footballs For Fun is simple, appealing, but needs to be seen more widely.

It’s not too late to buy a ball
On Friday 11 June, where will you be? That’s the day of the game between South Africa and Mexico, the first match in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Will you be in a pub, at a sports bar, in a South African-supporting environment? Will you be with your mates? Why not buy a South African ball to have as a souvenir!?

If you are an England fan, why not buy a special South African ball every time England scores? Think about it! ENGLAND SCORES, AFRICA WINS! We will send it to a child in Africa. That’s only £10 a goal AND THAT’S REALLY WORTHWHILE!

Click here to buy a ball.

And what about the legacy?
In 2011, the London Chorus, our partners in all these concerts, will tour South Africa from 18 to 30 March. They will spend a week in Cape Town, singing in the City Hall, at Kirstenbosch, in a nearby township hall and will take also a trip to the winelands to support one of the Fairtrade wine harvest celebrations.

In 2012 we, Footballs For Fun and The London Chorus will bring back a SA choir to join in celebrating Youth Day again in London. So help there if you can. Remember, the Olympics will then be less than 50 days away!!