De Graafschap announces participation in new Eredivisie Community Champions Programme
De Graafschap will soon launch the Community Champions project for young people between 15 and 27 years of age. It will be available in the regions of Oost Gelre, the municipality of Aalten and the municipality of Winterswijk.
The programme is being implemented by EFDN in a partnership with the Dutch Eredivisie and eight Dutch EFDN member clubs (Feyenoord Rotterdam, FC Emmen, Excelsior Rotterdam, De Graafschap, RKC Waalwijk, Sparta Rotterdam, FC Twente and Vitesse Arnhem).
The participating clubs have three objectives for the young people: discovering their own talents, doing something for others with those talents and finally meeting new people. By playing football together, following workshops and setting up an activity in the neighbourhood, they discover their talents. They might find out that they are a good leader, for example, or that they enjoy organising an event or are very good at marketing it. The idea is that the young people will make the neighbourhood a bit more fun because they will organise events for and in the neighbourhood from the football club several times during the 16-week programme.
