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From the 11th of March to the 2nd of April 2025, Green Football is launching The #GreatSave to bring fans, clubs, and communities together to score big for the planet. Green Football is an initiative focused on reducing the environmental impact of the sports industry, and The Great Save campaign is your chance to get involved. It’s a simple, yet powerful way to take action on climate change, and every pledge or action you take brings us one step closer to a greener future.  

What started as a bold partnership between Birmingham County Football Association (BCFA) and STEAMhouse  is now shaping up to potentially be one of the most experimental sustainability projects in the world of football. Supported by UEFA , this programme focuses on the power of material innovation, behaviour change, and storytelling to remove single-use plastic ice packs from the game. Innovation experts STEAMhouse and the BCFA have teamed up to assemble a diverse super-te

Sports for Nature is developing a new set of guidelines and tools - Sports for Nature: Urban Game Plan – to help sport organisations enhance nature in their infrastructure and operations within the built environment, creating benefits for both nature and sports. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), who are leading this work, are seeking 1-2 sports clubs willing to test part of these draft guidelines and tools by conducting a baseline assessment of the en

Among the diverse areas of action covered at COP29, sport emerged as both a sector requiring transformation and a powerful platform for promoting climate awareness. Chris Boardman, Chair of Sport England, who attended COP29, reiterated that sport and physical activity should play a key role in the global fight against climate change. Boardman has urged the sector to lead the way, emphasising its immense reach through local sports clubs embedded in every community and the powe

Last month, world leaders gathered at  COP16 in Cali , Colombia, at the  United Nations  biodiversity summit focused on assessing global efforts to protect the natural world.  Biodiversity is rapidly declining, with tropical forests disappearing at the rate of 10 football fields every minute and 1 million species at risk of extinction. COP16 focused on global efforts to protect biodiversity, building on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) , which aims t

Birmingham County FA recently partnered with WM-Air to analyse across the region where poor air quality could impact on football venues. The findings concluded that:  Approximately 50%  of all registered Home Grounds and 55% of Training Grounds in the County are in locations which exceed WHO health-based air quality guidelines for annual PM2.5 concentrations.Using WM-Air modelled air quality data we estimate that approximately half of the Weds Midlands population  live in loc

(Image: BCFA’s Ricard Lindsay meets STEAMhouse’s Harry Conway to set collaboration in motion)   In a ground-breaking collaboration aimed at tackling the growing issue of single-use plastic waste in football, Birmingham County Football Association (BCFA) has partnered with STEAMhouse, Birmingham’s leading innovation hub. This partnership is set to launch an ambitious new cross-disciplinary challenge-led innovation programme designed to identify innovative solutions to reduce t

SAVE TODAY, PLAY TOMORROW HAS ACHIEVED A KING’S AWARD FOR ENTERPRISE Birmingham County FA's Save Today, Play Tomorrow programme has been honoured with the first ever King’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development. Birmingham County FA is one of 252 organisations nationally to be recognised with a prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise. Announced today (Monday 6 May), Birmingham County FA has been recognised for its excellence in Sustainable Development for its accla

Yorkshire Sport Foundation spoke to former Programme Lead Richard Lindsay about the 'Save Today, Play Tomorrow' initiative. Richard joined the YSF on their climate series of webinars to discuss the role of the sport and physical activity sector in addressing the climate emergency. This interview is taken from that webinar and includes the audience question and answer session that also featured David Gent, CEO of Active Humber.