Football Foundation
Kat Southwell is an experienced professional in the sports and community engagement sector, currently serving as the Community Engagement Lead at the Football Foundation since October 2024. Prior to this role, Kat held the position of Head of Operations and Impact at Activity Alliance from May 2018 to October 2024, where responsibilities included overseeing operational planning, impact evaluation, and maintaining the organization's reputation. Earlier experience includes managing substantial investments in national programs, such as a £6 million investment at Activity Alliance and a £4.5 million project with the English Federation of Disability Sport. Kat began a career in sports development in 2009, focusing on innovative initiatives to engage disabled and non-disabled individuals in physical activity. Kat holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Sports and Exercise from the University of Bath.
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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.