The FA launch new campaign to give all girls equals access to football by 2024

12/10/2021

To coincide with International Day of the Girl, The FA launched a new campaign – Let Girls Play – which supports their strategic ambition to give all girls equal access to play football in school by 2024.

The Let Girls Play campaign will inspire and empower communities and schools to want to help make change, unlocking equal opportunities for girls to participate in the sport.

Only 63 per cent of schools currently offer girls’ football in PE lessons and their ambition, as seen in the women’s and girls’ Inspiring Positive Change strategy, is to have 75 per cent of schools providing equal access to football for girls in PE lessons by 2024. And the #LetGirlsPlay campaign supports this ambition by encouraging people to stop, listen, and see how they can make a difference to this current challenge.The campaign’s website provides inspiring resources to help influence the start of change and allow more girls to feel the mental and physical benefits of exercise through playing football.

FA director of women’s football, Baroness Sue Campbell, said “Currently, only a third of girls aged 5-18 participate in football every week, and we want to change that. Now is the time to drive a far-reaching ambition to open up the game in every way to girls, and the Let Girls Play campaign allows parents and teachers to play a huge role in joining us in this commitment.”

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