Football Foundation
Karen Taylor is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in sports management and community engagement. Currently serving as the National Player Growth Manager at England Rugby since March 2022, Karen also holds the position of Independent Non-Executive Trustee at the Football Foundation since September 2020. Prior roles include Director of Operations at Fulham Football Club Foundation from November 2015 to March 2022 and Active Schools Manager at South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture Ltd from May 2008 to November 2015. Additionally, Karen worked as a Personal Training Consultant at Concept Fitness and as Principal Officer for Active Schools at East Lothian Council. Karen holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Strathclyde and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sports Studies from the University of Stirling.
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Football Foundation
The Football Foundation is the charity of the Premier League, The FA and Government, through Sport England. We deliver outstanding grassroots football facilities, meaning more games, better games and more people playing - helping transform communities where demand is greatest and impact will be strongest. Founded in 2000, we are now the largest sports charity in UK. So far, we have used the investment from our Partners to award more than 17,600 grants to improve facilities worth more than £710m – including 942 artificial grass pitches, 6,426 natural grass pitches and 1,200 changing facilities. This has attracted an additional £940m of partnership funding – totalling over £1.6bn investment in grassroots football. And there’s much more to come. Through the Foundation, the Premier League, The FA and Government through Sport England have come together to create the National Football Facilities Strategy (NFFS) that will guide work over the next 10 years to transform many more local facilities. Local Football Facility Plans (LFFP) are being created to identify priority projects where demand is greatest, and the impact will be strongest and help stimulate the action required to deliver them.