The Barclays Girls’ Football School Partnership is aiming to build a sustainable infrastructure of schools committed to developing the girls’ game. The focus is to help girls become more physically active with improved wellbeing, increased physical literacy of five to eight year-olds and grow all girls confidence and competence to play football at school and in a community setting. We aim to develop innovative ways to deliver girls football through improving their first participation experience, and creating an active and confident generation of inspired female footballers, coaches, officials, and leaders.

Be part of the movement, sign the pledge and sign your primary or secondary school up to the programme.

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Active Essex #LetGirlsPlay Biggest ever football session 2023

As part of this work, we held 3 Essex Girls Football tournaments. It's great to hear from the young girls below, about how this opportunity is positively impacting them and other young girls across the county.

We have programmes for both primary and secondary schools:

If you are a school that wants equal rights for girls to access football, then we have the perfect programmes for you! For primary schools we have a Disney Inspired Shooting Stars and for secondary schools we have Barclays Game On.

Essex Strategic Leads

Basildon, Castle Point and Rochford – Steve Bish and Ellie Turner-Powell based at the Deanes School: cprssp@thedeanes.essex.sch.uk

Brentwood, Colchester , South Woodham Ferrers & Tendring – Tom Weller at Active Essex: Tom.Weller@activeessex.org

Chelmsford, Thurrock and Braintree – Zoe Lynch at Active Essex: Zoe.Lynch@ActiveEssex.org

Harlow – Andrew Martin based at Passmores Academy: A.Martin@passmoresacademy.com

Southend – Kirk Edwards based at Shoeburyness High School: KirkEdwards@secat.co.uk

Uttlesford – Jackie Coleman based at Saffron Waldon High School: Jcoleman@swchs.net

Tom Weller

Senior Children and Young People Projects Officer

Email: tom.weller@activeessex.org

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