The Holbeck

The Holbeck won Innovative Club of the Year for a broad collection of initiatives across its operation The club sits within a community that scores highly on a number of poverty indices, and the club takes its social responsibility in that context very seriously, launching a ‘Pay What You Decide’ policy to ensure that the club is accessible to all. It hosts English as a Second Language courses for those newly arrived in the country and when the Covid crisis arrived, the club closed its bar and repurposed itself as a social care referral unit and foodbank The Holbeck foodbank delivered over 15,000 food parcels to local families in need over a 15 month period and was recognised in numerous national newspapers as well as the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list It helped to set up a football club which is free and open to everyone, with childcare, kit and transport funded for over 150 people