Ellie Allseybrook, Business Development Director, Rob Beenham, Project Support Analyst  and Rich Morse, New Business Manager visited the Street Soccer Academy group with Derby County Community Trust.

Part of sponsoring The Big Goal campaign, the team were delighted to accept the offer to visit Pride Park and then spend some time with the group of young adults on the course.

The Big Goal is an industry-led initiative in partnership with the Street Soccer Foundation, aiming to tackle youth homelessness and drive positive social change to take 1,600 young people off the street and into employment. Through our sponsorship, Inform Billing are funding a Street Soccer Academy with the Street Soccer Foundation and Derby County Community Trust, to tackle youth homelessness in our city.

Whilst visiting the group the team shared an insight into Inform Billing, and led a discussion with the group on self-belief, resilience and life in general, offering up great advice on ways to approach day-to-day events.

Ellie Allseybrook, Business Development Director said: “I’ve loved today. Being able to see these young people be a part of the programme and to know that our involvement through The Big Goal is having an impact on people is really special. We can see how much fun they’re having and how much their confidence has grown.

From a profile perspective, it’s a real positive for us and other companies in the channel to be involved as our industry is a real community. To have something a little more informal, more fun, that’s also doing good, this is what makes The Big Goal so special.

And I know we can make this even bigger and more successful. We can all spread this out further across the country and it would be amazing to be able to do this going into next year and then on from there.

Internally too, all our team have recognised what we are achieving by supporting the Street Soccer Foundation, so it’s really brought our team together as well.”