Football Foundation
Robert Sullivan is an accomplished executive with extensive experience in the sports and political sectors. As the Chief Executive Officer of the Football Foundation since April 2020, Robert leads the UK's largest sports charity, focusing on the development of community sports facilities across England in collaboration with major organizations. Previously, Robert held various senior roles at The Football Association, including International and Corporate Affairs Director, where contributions were pivotal in securing the 2030 FIFA World Cup bid for the UK and Ireland. Additional experience includes roles at Hanover Communications, the Conservative Party, and Accenture. Robert's educational background includes a Senior Executive Programme from London Business School and a Bachelor's Degree in Joint Honours Economics and Politics from Durham University.
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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.