The Players Foundation

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1.1. the objects of the charity are specifically restricted to the following.1.2. in articles 1.3.1 to 1.3.3 inclusive, “beneficiaries” has the following meaning:1.2.1. trainee professional footballers;1.2.2. young persons registered with professional football academies associated with a club or centres of excellence associated with a club wishing to pursue a career as a professional footballer;1.2.3. former trainee professional footballers;1.2.4. professional footballers; and1.2.5. former professional footballers.in all cases in this definition persons shall play or have played or trained with a club in the english premier league and or football league or any successor competition.1.3. for the benefit of the beneficiaries: 1.3.1. to advance the education of beneficiaries. without prejudice to the generality of the forgoing in particular by undertaking education by vocational training so as to equip them with the necessary skills and knowledge enabling them to gain employment once their careers as professional footballers have ceased, and for the avoidance of doubt this includes the education and training of young people wishing to become professional footballers;1.3.2. to promote good health amongst beneficiaries;1.3.3. the relief of such beneficiaries and their dependants who are in conditions of need, hardship and distress and find themselves in necessitous circumstances;for the remainder of the objects of the charity the beneficiaries shall be members of the public at large:1.3.4. to advance the education of the public in such ways as the trustees shall think fit. without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing to provide education in respect of history, the development and social impact upon english national life of the game of football, including activities such as the preservation and display of artefacts and memorabilia of educational and historic value;1.3.5. to support and promote community participation and healthy recreation (including the advancement of amateur sport) by providing facilities for the playing of football and other sports capable of improving physical health, including provision to address drug addiction or addiction of any kind;1.3.6. to provide and assist in providing facilities for sport, recreation and other leisure time occupation of such persons who have a need for such facilities by reason of their age, youth, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life;1.3.7 to promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society. for the purpose of this clause “socially excluded” means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one or more of the following factors:unemployment;financial hardship;youth or old age;ill health (physical or mental);substance use or dependency, including alcohol and drugs;discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, ethnic origin, religion, belief, creed, sexual orientation or gender reassignment;poor education or skills attainment;relationship or family breakdown;poor housing (that is housing that does not meet basic habitable standards;crime (either as a victim or crime or as an offender rehabilitating into society); and1.3.8 the furtherance of such charitable purpose or purposes as the directors of the charity (known as the trustees) shall from time to time think fit.

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