The Junction Elite Project
A positive community charity widening access to football, mentoring, outreach and moments of recognition for young people and families across South West London.
Backed by Wimbledon Foundation.
The Junction Elite Project has been awarded the Wimbledon Foundation Get Set Go Further award: £60,000 in total, with £20,000 each year for three years. The partnership also includes merchandise that can be handed out to young people and families as part of positive community moments.
Multi-year backing helps the charity plan access, outreach, recognition, family connection and evidence with more confidence.
More than football. Football is the doorway.
The football club creates trust, routine and a place where young people already want to be. The charity turns that community energy into public benefit: access support, positive activity, mentoring, family connection, cleaner playing spaces and moments where effort is properly seen.
A Place To Belong
Football gives young people a team, a routine and trusted adults around them.
Practical Access
Support can help with kit, food, travel, camps, session places and equipment.
Family Connection
Community events bring families together around positive moments and shared pride.
Pathways Forward
Coaching, volunteering and mentoring create routes into confidence, leadership and opportunity.
Community Stewardship
Litter picks and reusable-bottle habits help young people see that looking after the area is part of belonging to it.
What do you want to do today?
The homepage should move people quickly: give, join monthly, partner with the charity, or understand how the Project is governed.
For donors
Make a one-off or monthly donation, add Gift Aid if eligible, and help fund access, outreach and recognition.
For monthly supporters
Join the Elite Alliance and give the charity a reliable monthly base for community work.
For schools and partners
Start a conversation about schools, venues, recycling routes, sponsorship or grant-funded delivery.
For funders
Understand the charity, governance, safeguarding, data separation and the relationship with Junction Elite FC.
The work donors are backing.
These public strands will grow as the charity strengthens its evidence, partners and funding applications.
Access To Football
Helping remove the barriers that stop young people taking part, from kit and equipment to subsidised places and travel support.
Schools, Camps And Outreach
Working with schools and local partners so structured football, mentoring and healthy activity reach more children.
Belonging And Recognition
Creating moments where young people are seen, celebrated and reminded that their effort matters beyond the pitch.
Litter Pick Initiative
Regular litter picks around pitches and public spaces, paired with a push for reusable bottles to cut single-use plastic.
The Elite Alliance gives the charity a base.
Monthly support helps the Project plan beyond one-off moments: kit support, subsidised access, outreach, celebration events and the match funding story that grant makers like to see.
Explore Elite AllianceMonthly giving that gives the charity a reliable base to plan access, outreach and recognition.
Local businesses backing specific programmes, events, kit support or community delivery.
Funder-ready projects for youth work, sport, wellbeing, inclusion and community access.
Targeted donations for schools, camps, hardship, awards, equipment, safeguarding training or environmental community projects.
Real people. Real rooms. Real pride.
The site should use authentic images as evidence of trust, family connection and young people being recognised.
Give once, give monthly, or start a partnership conversation.
The charity is separate from the football club, but connected through local trust, football delivery and the belief that young people deserve visible support.