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- We combine the youth-centred, educational and commercial expertise of Kibble, with St. Mirren’s first-class sporting facilities and national profile. Kibble’s partnership has the intention to bring meaningful change to the lives of young people in care at Kibble and to St Mirren as well as the wider Paisley community.
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May 24, 2024 · St Mirren Football Club has been recognised for its unique partnership with young person charity, Kibble, as it takes on iconic football clubs from across the world at this year’s Football Business Awards.
- Summary
- Background
- Supporting Communities Through The Pandemic
- Confidential Telephone Support
- Getting Food to People Who Need It
- Stability For The Club in Turbulent Times
- Meaningful Change
- What Makes The Partnership A Success?
- Other Lessons Learned
Kibble is a specialist child and youth care charity and social enterprise that supports at risk children and young people (aged 5-26) across the UK. In February 2020 Kibble announced a historic new deal to become a major shareholder in St Mirren Football club, through a unique link-up, the first of its kind in the UK, with the club’s supporters’ tr...
Kibble is one of Scotland’s largest social enterprises and operates across the UK. Many of the young people Kibble cares for have experienced significant trauma. Using a therapeutic and trauma‐informed approach it provides care, education and a range of supports to open opportunities and create positive futures. At its core, Kibble provides residen...
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic contributing to heightened unemployment and subsequent social issues around food poverty and crisis in mental health, the partnership enabled Kibble and St Mirren to help address local deprivation and exclusion through youth employment, community engagement initiatives and activities.
During the pandemic Kibble established a confidential support line ‘Safe Space to Talk’ through which Kibble’s in-house counsellors offer telephone support for St Mirren staff and players, helping break the stigma around mental health in sport. This was set up following the success of the service for Kibble staff and the wider Scottish social care ...
Kibble and St Mirren work with FairShare (the UK’s largest charity fighting hunger and food waste) and the locally-based members of the The Renfrewshire Food Network to deliver essential food parcels to families struggling to put food on the table. Each week, Kibble offers voluntary support to collect and deliver the food parcels to the Tannahill C...
In the light of the devastation wrought on Scottish football clubs by the pandemic, St Mirren’s partnership with Kibble has been a “godsend” according to the club’s chief executive Tony Fitzpatrick. Like other clubs, St Mirren was closed when games were initially postponed. Then matches were allowed but with empty stadiums, and subsequently with li...
Kibble’s partnership with St Mirren Football Club is already bringing meaningful change to the lives of young people at Kibble, the Football Club and the wider community. It will strengthen Kibble’s young workforce development including employability programmes, volunteering support, traineeships and apprenticeships to provide wider opportunities b...
The partnership combines the youth-centred, educational and commercial expertise of Kibble with St Mirren’s first-class sporting facilities and national profile. The opportunities it creates are profound and its success is down to “effective communication, a shared understanding of the aims and objectives of both organisations, and the ability to p...
This is a unique partnership compared with our other case studies but it offers many lessons around purpose alignment, communication, trust and flexibility in the light of adversity. Football in the UK has “an enormous reach because so many people care about it,” says Macmillan, “and we want to use the reach that football has. That’s good for the t...
St Mirren could become Scotland's latest fan-owned football club as soon as next year if new plans announced today come to fruition. Under the plans the St Mirren Independent Supporters Trust (SMISA) would enter a unique partnership with social care charity Kibble which would transform how the club is owned and run.
Jul 25, 2024 · But the supporters would still be chipping away at the overall ownership percentages were it not for a deal, thought to be unique in top-flight European football, with Kibble, a charity and...
Jan 29, 2020 · Kibble’s partnership with St. Mirren Football Club will create an environment that can bring meaningful change to the lives of young people in care at Kibble, to St. Mirren Football Club, and to the wider Paisley community. A final decision will be made by SMISA on 21 February.
May 24, 2024 · National charity Kibble purchased part of St Mirren FC in 2020, alongside St Mirren Independent Supporters Association (SMISA), in a deal that is thought to be the first of its kind in the UK. The agreement created the only fan-owned premiership club which is also run in partnership with one of the country’s biggest charities.
