We are now into the third year of our partnership with The FA and looking to continue the great work done so far. The FA have shown their support for our work by providing professional coaches to run Coaching for Hope courses in Burkina Faso, Mali and South Africa.

By developing local coaches' communication skills, we enable social messages to be linked to football so that young people can easily absorb the information about issues such as sexual health and substance misuse.

Coaching Support for West African Women

The FA has worked with us to deliver top quality football coaching to women in West Africa.

In November 2009, we ran a course in Mali for some of our most dedicated female coaches. The FA supported this by providing two of their most experienced female coaches - Tracey Kevins and Laura Harvey. Both coaches did a tremendous job of delivering the course and supporting our female coaches to deliver HIV crossover sessions and football coach education.

Tracey Kevins leading a training session in Mali in November 2009.

The FA visited our 'Empowerment of Women and Girls through Football' project in Cape Town in July 2011. Read what they thought on TheFA.com

England Women's Manager Hope Powell has worked with us to train coaches in Cape Town.

Martin Thurnham from Coutts, with our Director Jane Carter and Lord Triesman from The FA.