Athletic Club Foundation becomes the 40th member of EFDN

Athletic Club Foundation becomes the 40th member of EFDN

EFDN is pleased to announce that Athletic Club Foundation has joined the European Football for Development Network. We are excited that the network is being joined by a club from Spain, strengthening the Network’s work of cooperating in the field of CSR in football on a European level.

Founded in 2002, the Athletic Club Foundation’s primary mission is to return to society part of what society gives to Athletic Club. This is accomplished through an important programme of initiatives in the social, social-sporting and socio-cultural scopes whose main objective are to improve our society. To achieve this, the Foundation sets in motion activities and programmes either individually or in collaboration with different social agents and organisations. All Foundation activities use football and/or Athletic Club’s social, historical and cultural dimension as tools to help improve the quality of life of the people for whom they are intended.

The Athletic Foundation Club is in a certain sense entrusted with so much the values cultivated and spread by Athletic Club in its over 119 years history as with the social and cultural dimension that the organisation has at the moment. In this context, the Foundation works for the promotion of what it could denominate as the “red and white culture”, in which the values of tolerance, coexistence, fair play and good sportsmanship are always present. In this sense, the Foundation ensures that all the activities that are carried out strengthen the Athletic Club name and spread its values and social and cultural implication.

SOCIETY

The Athletic Club Foundation maintains and promotes a series of programmes destined to help in the social insertion of people and groups at risk of social exclusion. These programmes use the power of the sport, Football, and the social dimension of Athletic Club to create a series of educational and playful activities that help set into motion insertion programmes by the institutions and associations that work with specific groups in our communities.

CULTURE

The Athletic Club Foundation annually organises a series of activities in the cultural sphere. These seek to build bridges between culture and football with the objective that out of this relationship both parts mutually expand, as well as cultivate the critical reflection around football understood as a social phenomenon. In this sense, the Foundation programmes activities in areas akin to Thought, Literature, the cinema, Basque culture, Art, Photography, Media and, of course, the Basque Language, Euskera.

SPORT

The Athletic Club Foundation launches every year a series of actions aimed at promoting sport as a participatory leisure among the youngest. The aim of these actions is to promote healthy living and the recreational dimension of sport, beyond competitive criteria. 

We are looking forward to a successful cooperation with the Atheltic Club Foundation.