Aston Villa Foundation

Kicking off our #PLMoreThanAGame celebrations, we are pleased to announce our @premierleague Community Captain as Youth Engagement Coordinator Ahmed Ali 🙌💜 Chosen for his outstanding efforts to the Foundation and the local community, he was presented the award by none other than @AVFCOfficial's @jmcginn7 🏆

Benjamin Zephaniah Localism Awards To honour the memory of Benjamin, who was an ambassador at the Aston Villa Foundation, we would like to celebrate the great work that people in the local community have dedicated their time to. The awards will help cast a spotlight on those who have demonstrated and embodied the ‘localism’ principle and are community champions within the great city of Birmingham. Nominate here: forms.office.com/e/fQFpb2mB1J Successful nominees of our 2026 awards will be invited to Villa Park for a hospitality experience and pitchside photograph during the Aston Villa v Sunderland on the 18th of April. For further information contact james.lowbridge@avfc.co.uk @BZephaniah

Join our Easter Soccer Schools 🐣 📍 Aston 📍 Bromsgrove 📍 Harborne 📍 Sutton Coldfield The first 20 customers that enrol a child on a course between now and Saturday will be invited to TOCA Social on Wednesday 25th March to take part in an Angry Birds launch event (2 tickets per customer: parent + child). If you haven’t heard from us by Saturday, the places will have already been filled. Book now: tickets.avfc.co.uk/en-GB/categori…

Our work with Youth Engagement takes place at five schools across Birmingham, with #PLInspires, #PLKicks, #PLChangemakers and mentoring taking place across a single day. 🏫 For #PLMoreThanAGame, we are taking you through a day in the life of our Youth Engagement programmes at Stockland Green Secondary School. 📚➡️⚽ @PLCommunities

Read more ⬇️ avfc.co.uk/news/2026/marc…

Kicking off our #PLMoreThanAGame celebrations, we are pleased to announce our @premierleague Community Captain as Youth Engagement Coordinator Ahmed Ali 🙌💜 Chosen for his outstanding efforts to the Foundation and the local community, he was presented the award by none other than @AVFCOfficial's @jmcginn7 🏆

Abseiling down the holte end tonight after raising money for the Aston Villa Foundation what an experience Was scary to start, but then was fantastic I love this football club Aston Villa FC #AVFC #AstonVilla #UTV #avfcfans #PremierLeague #avfcofficial #football

@jmcginn7 sorry for the awful singing 🤣🤣 but we did celebrate your return at the @AVFCFoundation abseil last night! UTV

As part of Science Week, our Primary Schools Sport and Education team hosted ten local schools at our Inner City Academy in Aston for a STEM event. Students had the opportunity to learn and engage with coding, safety around AI, football analysis, and more. Our STEM delivery is funded by National Grid, and encourages creativity and curiosity around STEM and coding, using advancing technology in the form of programmable Sphero Bolts and Kubos to complete football-related challenges and activities. @nationalgrid

@elizabethAVFC The commitment to our medal challenges does not go unnoticed 💜 we are all cheering him on!🙌

One year to the day, Squdige got hit by a car, so in true fashion we had to go to A&E yesterday as he’s done some ligaments in his knee! That’ll be 27km done on crutches for the @AVFCFoundation🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@mcvillerton @AVFCOfficial @morgz_10 Hi, registration will close by the 17th April, but may close earlier if all our medals have been claimed 💜

@AVFCFoundation @AVFCOfficial @morgz_10 Hi, when does registration for this close?

We’ve got a brand new medal challenge 🤩 Move with Morgan and run, walk or cycle 27 kilometres and donate £30 to the Aston Villa Foundation to receive your limited edition medal 🏅 Sign up: register.enthuse.com/ps/event/Movew… @AVFCOfficial @morgz_10

International Women’s Day with #PLPrimaryStars 💜🫶 Earlier this week, we held our #IWD2026 Festival, with girls from local primary schools 🤝 Check out the action 📸

Happy International Women’s Day Villans 💜 Follow along with Football Development Coordinator Wai, as we take a trip around a few of our female-focused programmes 💪 ⬇️ #IWD2026 | @premierleague | @PLCommunities | @PFA

This International Women’s Day the theme of Give to Gain celebrates the power of collaboration and the shared progress that comes from supporting women’s stories across every industry. Women’s football is rewriting the story of the UK’s sporting landscape. Over the past four years, participation across women and girls has grown by more than 50%, fuelled by sustained investment and the success of the Lionesses. It grew a further 5% in 2025 following England’s EURO victory, reinforcing women’s football as one of the UK’s fastest-growing sports. Here at Eleven, we’re proud to be a global advocate for women’s sport and remain committed to the growth and development of the game through our community-driven sports partnerships. Community is what drives growth. Here are some of the ways we have supported the female sports community in the past 12 months: 💜 Supported the @AVFCFoundation’s Everybody’s Game initiative, creating inclusive opportunities for British South Asian communities, and for women and girls to get involved in football as players, coaches, referees and volunteers. 💜 Expanded our long‑term partnership with the @Millwall_LFC, becoming their official front‑of‑shirt sponsor and investing in the @Millwall_MCT to strengthen pathways for young female players. 💜 Continued our support for women’s teams across the UK, including @cpfc_w, @QPRWFC, @LUFCwomen, @CelticFCWomen and @theposhwomen. 💜 Launched a purpose-built stats platform for @LCFC_Women, delivering real‑time, data‑driven content across the Barclays Women’s Super League directly into King Power Stadium. Today, and every day, we are proud to champion our global partnerships across the women’s game. Because when we Give to Gain, we don’t just elevate individual stories, we strengthen the future of football for everyone.

It’s #WorldBookDay2026 📚 Villans! Remember to drop your pre-loved children’s books at the Villa Store. Details below ⬇️ @AVFCSupport | @lonbookproject

A big well done to all teams who took part in the Premier League Inspires Challenge at Villa Park 🏟️👏 @PLCommunities @PFA @AUEA_UTC

Local schools visited Villa Park last week to take on the Premier League Inspires Challenge. Teams were tasked with showcasing what wellbeing means to them, how body image affects young people in their community, the biggest challenges young people face in regard to mental health, and how they can take social action to help address the issues they see. The teams had to present their social action project to a panel of judges, who would choose the winner that will go on to represent the Aston Villa Foundation at a national level in April. A big congratulations to Aston University Engineering Academy who were selected to progress 👏 Premier League Inspires is a personal development programme, funded by the Premier League and supported by the PFA, and uses the power of football to inspire young people aged 11 to 25 to develop the personal skills and positive attitudes needed to succeed in life. @PLCommunities @PFA @AUEA_UTC

An amazing experience for all 🤝 Huge thanks to players, staff and fans for contributing to such a wonderful occasion 👏