MAN v FAT groups up with Soccer Rebooted

Soccer Rebooted launched in Could 2021 after findings from a Utilita-commissioned report into the mixed impression of the pandemic and the cost-of-living-crisis on grassroots soccer.

The response from followers was rapid and throughout the first few weeks, 1000’s of pre-loved soccer boot donations had flooded in, not solely lowering potential landfill but additionally making a distinction to the lives of kids and adults within the UK.

MAN v FAT, the UK’s main males’s weight reduction programme, guides over 8,000 males each week on their wellbeing journey.  Having joined forces with Soccer Rebooted, the scheme won’t solely be saving households a couple of quid however might be reinforcing the significance of upcycling and reusing gadgets that also have numerous life left in them. 

Professional-pocket, pro-planet 

Sam Cook dinner, Utilita’s Partnerships Advertising and marketing Supervisor, commented on the environmental impression of rehoming boots: “Since its launch in 2021, the Soccer Rebooted marketing campaign has collected and reallocated 1000’s of high quality soccer boots, saving hard-pressed households a small fortune and serving to to scale back landfill and carbon emissions.

“To place the environmental advantages into context, our purpose is to stop at the least 1,000,000 pairs of shoes from ending up in landfill and saving 136,000 tonnes of carbon – the identical as taking 7,000 vehicles off the highway for a 12 months.”

Chris Hawkins, Utilita’s West Bromwich Power Hub Supervisor, helped to instigate the partnership, having not too long ago joined the MAN v FAT Dudley League in Could 2025. 

Chris mentioned: “Given the monetary hardship that households are dealing with, we perceive that it could be difficult for folks to have the ability to participate in crew sports activities.  The 2025 MAN v FAT Nationwide Soccer Match, held on the Lilleshall Nationwide Centre, supplied an ideal stage to launch the partnership and I used to be delighted to take alongside the Soccer Rebooted assortment containers.

“As a daily MAN v FAT Soccer competitor, I contemplate the partnership to be a pure match as we share so many objectives to assist adults and kids be energetic, take part and benefit from the bodily and psychological well being advantages of crew sport.”

Matt Hudson, Affiliate Director of Advertising and marketing and Partnerships at MAN v FAT Soccer, commented on the why the weight-loss initiative is supporting the marketing campaign: “The Soccer Rebooted scheme delivers a particularly enjoyable and distinctive declare system that avoids any household needing to really feel embarrassed at taking second-hand gadgets. If in case you have any spare or unused soccer boots, please contemplate donating and serving to us make soccer accessible to everybody in the local people!

“We’d wish to thank our gamers and their supporters for getting behind the Soccer Rebooted scheme, which performs a significant position in giving each kids and adults the chance to benefit from the bodily, psychological, and social advantages of taking part in a sport.”

How will you become involved?

Anybody with a spare pair of soccer boots (or astro turf boots) ought to merely give them a clear and drop them off at their native Soccer Rebooted assortment level.

Boots may also be donated at any of the Utilita Power Hubs – positioned in West Bromwich, Gosport, Southampton, Newport (Isle of Wight), Luton, Derby, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Leicester, Blackburn, Huddersfield and Hartlepool – holding them within the native eco-system to make sure they’re re-used. 

Anybody requiring soccer boots, together with people and households, can merely attain out to their native assortment level to examine what sizes can be found earlier than coming to gather them. Faculties and golf equipment in want of soccer boots may submit their package necessities through the Soccer Rebooted web site.

To get a FREE Soccer Rebooted field and begin amassing and redistributing boots inside your membership, faculty or area people, please contact advertising@manvfat.com or go to www.footballrebooted.co.uk.