Football Foundation
Niamh Mac Namee is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in program management and organizational leadership. Currently serving as Grant Support Manager at the Football Foundation since November 2024, Niamh previously held several key positions at Patchwork Foundation, including COO and Acting CEO, where responsibilities included oversight of financial processes and programmatic delivery. Niamh's prior roles include Programme Manager and Programme Leader at upReach, focusing on career support for undergraduates from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and an English Teacher at An Najah National University. Niamh’s educational background includes a BA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Exeter.
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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.