Richard Southwood

🚦 HERE WE GO! The Football Fun Factory is expanding, growing and moving into new locations within our community! I now have a fantastic opportunity to bring more football to more children.

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🏆️ THE RESULTS ARE IN! The Football Fun Factory has placed 68th in the Elite Franchise Top 100 for 2025! The EF100 is the UK’s definitive list of the leading franchises operating across the UK. In what has been a mega year for the FFF, our 68th placing is the icing on the cake

🤝 A MATCH MADE IN HAVEN! Football Fun Factory are pleased to announce a fantastic new partnership that will see the FFF’s truly unique experiences delivered across all 38 Haven Holiday parks, from 2025! More info on this exciting partnership will be released in the New Year.

🧱 ON THE BUILDING SITE as our Tots worked extra hard this morning at the Rayleigh Leisure Centre. We drove around big trucks, helped scoop up the bricks in our diggers before demolishing the buildings.

💮 MASSIVE DEMAND for our FFF Hand Stamp! At the end of our Tots Football Fun sessions we always reward the boys and girls with a hand stamp. It is always a challenge for me to survive the crush of a group of excited children!

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 IT WAS A FAMILY AFFAIR at this mornings Tots Football Fun sessions at Clements Hall. With the local schools having an inset day we had lots of helpers inside the pitch!

🐱 WILDCAT FESTIVAL FUN as the @EssexCountyFA and @FballFunFactory came together for an afternoon of matches and games. It was great seeing the young players showcase their skills, make new friends, and celebrate the beautiful game in an inclusive, supportive environment.

🕹️ FAVOURITE FOOTBALLERS as we played the FIFA game with our older group at tonight’s FF&D at Garon Park 3G. The children loved being Mbappe, Messi, Ronaldo, Vini Jr and Neymar as I controlled the inside the game!

📖 BRINGING STORIES TO LIFE at our Tots Football Fun at the Rayleigh Leisure Centre. This morning the children took a stroll through the deep dark woods as they tried to keep their nut safe and avoid the Owl, Snake, Fox and Gruffalo.

⚽️ DAY ONE COMPLETE and we had so much fun. It was great welcoming over 40 boys and girls to our Football Fun Camp and we had a mix of inflatable games, matches, free play and circle games. We try and make sure there is always something going on for everyone throughout the day

🪄 ABOUT TO WORK SOME MAGIC to transform a van full of inflatables and equipment into a hall full of football fun! We cannot wait to welcome all the boys and girls to Sweyne Park School in the morning for 2 days of October Football Fun Camps.

👻 MORE HALLOWEEN FUN AND GAMES as we continue our spooky themed week at the Football Fun Factory. At our Tots Football Fun sessions at Clements Hall, the boys and girls loved exploring the haunted woods, picking pumpkins and making spells!

😀 ENTHUSIASTIC IS our word of the week and the boys and girls were full of this as we finished our half term with some Halloween fun themed games at Westcliff High School and Garon Park 3G this week.

⛔️ DO NOT ENTER the Pumpkin Patch was a great game at last nights FF&D at Clements Hall. One of children had to protect their pumpkins from being taken by guarding the area. You can see the energy here of Harvey working hard to stop the other children taking his pumpkins!

⏳ PARENTS ITS NOT TOO LATE to register your child for our upcoming October Football Fun Camps. Details are: 📍 Sweyne Park School 📆 28th & 29th October ⏱ 9am-3.30pm 💷 £26 a day or £44 for a 2 day camp. 50% Sibling discount available 💻 booking.thefootballfunfactory.co.uk/event/2051

🌞 THE SUN WAS OUT and the children were on fire at tonight’s FF&D session at Garon Park 3G. We played Ball Raiders and Diagonal Dare Devil in a session full of action and fun.

🏆 WE’RE FINALISTS! I’m delighted to share the news that the Football Fun Factory are a finalist in the Best Franchise Awards for Childrens Services An exciting year for the FFF continues and we are incredibly proud to be recognised amongst so many other fantastic organisations

🎯 HITTING THE TARGET at tonights FF&D session at Westcliff High School. We brought along our Beat the Goalie target to give the boys and girls a different challenge tonight. It was great to see some fantastic shots and the children supporting each other in their teams.

🪩 VERSATILE IS OUR Word of the Week and we were able to give a real life example of this at our FF&D yesterday evening. With the astro pitch having emergency repairs we went inside into a smaller space than usual. This meant replanning the session with one of our inflatables.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 A PERFORMANCE TO FORGET but a night to remember. I went to watch England last night with Liam. Although the performance was dreadful, we had a nice evening together and even managed to see some amazing sights of the Northern Lights on the journey home!