Soccer Rebooted launched in Might 2021 after findings from a Utilita-commissioned report into the mixed affect of the pandemic and the cost-of-living-crisis on grassroots soccer.
The response from followers was speedy and inside the first few weeks, hundreds of pre-loved soccer boot donations had flooded in, not solely lowering potential landfill but additionally making a distinction to the lives of kids and adults within the UK.
MAN v FAT, the UK’s main males’s weight reduction programme, guides over 8,000 males each week on their wellbeing journey. Having joined forces with Soccer Rebooted, the scheme is not going to solely be saving households a couple of quid however can be reinforcing the significance of upcycling and reusing objects that also have loads of life left in them.
Professional-pocket, pro-planet
Sam Prepare dinner, Utilita’s Partnerships Advertising Supervisor, commented on the environmental affect of rehoming boots: “Since its launch in 2021, the Soccer Rebooted marketing campaign has collected and reallocated hundreds of high quality soccer boots, saving hard-pressed households a small fortune and serving to to scale back landfill and carbon emissions.
“To place the environmental advantages into context, our intention is to forestall at the least 1,000,000 pairs of trainers from ending up in landfill and saving 136,000 tonnes of carbon – the identical as taking 7,000 vehicles off the highway for a yr.”
Chris Hawkins, Utilita’s West Bromwich Power Hub Supervisor, helped to instigate the partnership, having just lately joined the MAN v FAT Dudley League in Might 2025.
Chris mentioned: “Given the monetary hardship that households are going through, we perceive that it could be difficult for individuals to have the ability to participate in crew sports activities. The 2025 MAN v FAT Nationwide Soccer Match, held on the Lilleshall Nationwide Centre, offered an ideal stage to launch the partnership and I used to be delighted to take alongside the Soccer Rebooted assortment containers.
“As a daily MAN v FAT Soccer competitor, I think about the partnership to be a pure match as we share so many targets to assist adults and kids be lively, take part and benefit from the bodily and psychological well being advantages of crew sport.”
Matt Hudson, Affiliate Director of Advertising and Partnerships at MAN v FAT Soccer, commented on the why the weight-loss initiative is supporting the marketing campaign: “The Soccer Rebooted scheme delivers a particularly enjoyable and distinctive declare system that avoids any household needing to really feel embarrassed at taking second-hand objects. If in case you have any spare or unused soccer boots, please think about donating and serving to us make soccer accessible to everybody in the local people!
“We’d wish to thank our gamers and their supporters for getting behind the Soccer Rebooted scheme, which performs an important position in giving each youngsters and adults the chance to make the most of the bodily, psychological, and social advantages of taking part in a sport.”
How will you get entangled?
Anybody with a spare pair of soccer boots (or astro turf boots) ought to merely give them a clear and drop them off at their native Soccer Rebooted assortment level.
Boots can be donated at any of the Utilita Power Hubs – situated in West Bromwich, Gosport, Southampton, Newport (Isle of Wight), Luton, Derby, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Leicester, Blackburn, Huddersfield and Hartlepool – maintaining them within the native eco-system to make sure they’re re-used.
Anybody requiring soccer boots, together with people and households, can merely attain out to their native assortment level to examine what sizes can be found earlier than coming to gather them. Faculties and golf equipment in want of soccer boots may also submit their equipment necessities by way of the Soccer Rebooted web site.
To get a FREE Soccer Rebooted field and begin gathering and redistributing boots inside your membership, college or local people, please contact advertising and marketing@manvfat.com or go to www.footballrebooted.co.uk.