Peterborough United Foundation

Free activities for children and young people include:

• Premier League Kicks – Evening football sessions for hard to reach youngsters.
• PAN Disability – Weekly football sessions for 6-16 year olds and separate sessions for adults who have learning difficulties, sight and/or hearing loss or physical difficulties.
• Sports Scholarship Programme – For boys and girls, this combines Football with a BTEC Level 3 in Sport / A-Levels. Unique to this course, the fixtures will be played against both Premier League and Football League clubs with similar programmes.
• Premier League Primary Stars – This free to school’s programme develops primary school teachers knowledge and confidence in delivering physical education lessons, and how to use sport as a tool to engage and assist students’ understanding of English, Maths and PSHE.
• Sensory Strikers – A group for toddlers (age 2 - 4 years) with Special Education Needs (SEN), these fun and friendly sessions use sensory play to support learning, movement, and social skills. Parents are welcome to join in! Register by contacting [email protected] .

Free programmes for adults include:

• Extra Time Hubs – aimed at semi-retired or retired adults who would like to meet up for a hot drink and biscuit, a chat, play board games, etc. Find out more here.
• Mindful Motion - for retired and semi-retired people, with 1 hour of physical exercises and 1 hour of social activities, find out more on this page.
• Yoga United - men and women age 18+, find out more here.
• United in Wellness sessions provide family/informal carers with practical tools to support their own health and wellbeing. These are 12-week programmes being delivered at six different sites across the city.

Activities subject to a fee include:

• Boys’ and girls’ development football centre - under 6’s through to under 16’s, players can gain additional training with highly qualified coaches whilst they still train and play for a grassroots team.
• Boys Shadow Squads - based at the idverde Academy, the Shadow Squads is the tier below the Academy and provides players an hour’s additional coaching per week on top of their current training schedule. Along with following a training syllabus parallel to the Academy, sessions will be delivered by UEFA B coaches and players will also have regular games as a group.
• Holiday Camps – provide school holiday courses for boys and girls of any ability, aged between 5-11 year of age. The sessions are run at different venues across the Peterborough region. Each day consists of fun sessions throughout the day and culminates in matches and tournaments.
• Chair-based exercise - for older adults and/or those with long-term health issues or disabilities, see more here.
• Chair-based exercise for people living with dementia and their carers (carers are free).
• Walking Football – adult social football sessions, open to men and women age 18+, see more here.

To find out more about any of the free or paid for programmes

Email [email protected] to find out more about the programmes for children and young people.

Email [email protected] to find out more about the health and wellbeing programmes for adults (and Sensory Strikers for toddlers). You can also check out their Health & Wellbeing webpage to find out the latest offerings for adults.