Free football coaching will be offered to 30,000 children across England from September. The MacDonald’s Free Fun Sessions were relaunched in May and have seen a 60 percent increase in girls signing up since the Lionesses victory this summer.
Thanks to the success of the original programme, the fast-food chain has added additional locations to its autumn rollout. Ensuring that more children than ever before have the opportunity to play, over 17,000 hours of Free Fun Football will be made available across 200 centres.
The expansion of the scheme includes 17 new locations across the country, which reduces the distance that children and parents have to travel to attend the free sessions. MacDonald’s has supported grassroots football for over 20 years.
