Boots For Africa
for the love of the game
In many of the African communities you will see children playing football in their bare feet on rubble-strewn ground.
Boots For Africa, founded by Sheffield FC – The World’s First Football Club - collect your old football boots and deliver them to the children and adults of Africa.
The ‘Boots For Africa’ appeal aims to help develop the skills and fitness of disadvantaged children, and provide more children with the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful game.
Help make your OLD boots...
someone else's NEW boots
You can help us very easily by donating your old boots. Simply clean them, tie them together with the laces and deposit them at one of our Collection Points.
Play your part and make a difference
Your support, however large or small, can make a real difference. Your donated boots will be the first ever pair worn by disadvantaged children and will offer a generation of young people affected by poverty, poor health and lack of opportunity a new sense of hope, pride and ambition for themselves and for their country.
Born on the backstreets
It was on the back streets of a South African township where Sheffield FC Chairman Richard Tims dreamed of doing something to help change the face of football for those living in Africa.
Seeing Children playing the game in their bare feet left Richard asking what could be done to help. It was obvious to him that those children kicking a ball to each other shared the same passion and love millions of more fortunate fans have for the sport. This was where the ‘Boots For Africa’ appeal was born.
