Football foundation appoints Leeds-based digital agency Bolser to support projected £92m investment

Digital marketing agency Bolser has been appointed by the Premier League, The FA and Government’s Football Foundation to help enable the investment of a projected £92m into multi-sports grassroots facilities across England by 2025.

The Leeds-based agency has provided the charity with digital strategy consultancy and the design and build of a web app called Pitch Power that helps support the improvement of grass pitches at football, cricket, rugby league and rugby union grounds across England.

The free-to-use app will see every community club and organisation across cricket, rugby league, rugby union and football given the ability to carry out their own sport-specific grass pitch inspections.

Once an inspection is submitted, grass pitch experts at the Grounds Management Association produce an assessment report with bespoke advice and recommendations to improve the grass pitch quality at a site.

Although previously an initiative for football, the Foundation has announced that the app is now available for rugby league, with rugby union set to go live this autumn and will be available to cricket at the start of the next season.

Sam Bunis, director of brand, marketing and communications at the Football Foundation, said: “Bolser are UX design specialists. They have helped us translate complex user journeys into intuitive, insight-driven designs to convert more users.”

Bolser managing director, Ashley Bolser, commented: “The PitchPower app is an excellent initiative and we’re very proud that our work will help the Football Foundation to support the improvement in grass pitchea across England. To produce an app which meets the Football Foundation’s requirements is testament to the design expertise and build capability of our team here at Bolser.

“The charity now has an app which has user experience at its very core and supports its commitment to providing sports clubs with the funding to improve their grass pitches.

The multisport PitchPower app was launched at an event where the Football Foundation announced that by 2025, the charity plans to commit 40 per cent of its investment, worth a projected £92m over the next three years, into multi-sport projects. These will be for projects that support both football and an additional sport, such as rugby, cricket, netball and basketball.

This will benefit the landscape of sport across the country, ensuring people will be able to access more places to play for more of the nation’s favourite sports.

A selection of high-profile sports figures attended the event, including England men’s football manager and Football Foundation supporter Gareth Southgate, England men’s rugby league coach Shaun Wane and captain of the England women’s cricket team Heather Knight OBE.

By Mark Adair – Correspondent, Bdaily

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