PLANS AND DREAMS

•    Over 120 different male and female students from South Nottingham College's football and rugby performance programmes will have coached 28,000 young South Africans and by the end of the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, we will have distributed 25,000 footballs and rugby balls.

•    Each child coached will receive their own ball or will have ease of access to sport lessons where our balls are used by PE teachers and township project leaders.

•    We have delivered football coach education workshops to around 300 South African Coaches across the country. This number will rise to 400 coaches as we work with The Professional Footballer's Association in 2010.

•    It is estimated that over 650,000 young South Africans will have received access to a game of football or rugby in over 25 different townships across the country by the end of the World Cup in 2010.

•    To extend the Balls To Poverty Project to other Colleges and organisations across UK and to inspire young male and females who can make valuable and long-lasting contributions in our communities across UK and overseas. The aim is to achieve this through the delivery of Balls To Poverty academic qualifications that 'package' the life-skills and academic/ vocational skills that reflect the project.

•    To develop a UK-focussed empowerment programme that will provide opportunities for young people and adults to inspire others across our communities. This will be achieved through mentoring and coaching in the community: student presentations in schools: inner-city youth sports schemes….all with full support of national Governing Bodies.

•    The Empowerment programme will involve shaping character development earlier in young students when they first enrol at College and guiding them through fund-raising initiatives and school visits to develop their skills. The programme will include students taking part in life coaching/ goal-setting projects that will aim at supporting young people with their personal goals and ambitions.

•    To reach out to many more young children and teachers in deprived areas across South Africa, other countries and across all our partner primary and secondary schools in Nottingham and across UK. Having already coached 7,000 primary school children as part of an "Early Years Intevention" strategy, our intention is to engage with many more younger school children in the City and across UK.