With these sessions, I feel like it grew my confidence a lot more than how I would normally have confidence. I just wanted to figure out a path for myself and I feel like the way this project was explained, it significantly helped me. I've now seen what I could become, and how I could achieve it, with a systematic approach.
Organisation Overview
Areas of Interest
- Education
- Community
- Employment
- Sports & Recreation
- Abuse
- Arts & culture
- Boys and men
- Carer support
- Crime & rehabilitation
- Disorders
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Environment
- Equal opportunity
- Food & Hunger
- General
- Girls and women
- Disability
- Health & wellbeing
- Heritage & History
- Mental health
- Poverty
- Schools
- Elderly
Our History
Areas of Operation
- England: London
Beneficiaries
- Children / Young People
We work with children and young adults coaching sport, PPA cover, mentoring, education and training programmes, Activities may be based at schools, sports facilities or parks in the community and neighbouring boroughs term time and holiday provision.
- Elderly / Old People
We work with elderly/old people on a project called community living room, funded this year by the National Lottery. It focuses on improving the health and wellbeing for local residents through a variety of social and physical activities.
- Adults
We deliver ‘Coping through Football’ Mental Health Treatment and Recovery Programme in partnership with London Playing Fields Foundation/NELMHT. Also Community Living Room for older adults, as well as Employability programmes for NEET 18-25yr olds.
- Other Charities or Voluntary Bodies
Partnerships include the National Lottery, EFL in the Community, Premier League Charitable Fund, Portal Trust
- Student or learners
We have been running BTEC Sport college study programmes for a number of years and have worked with the council to deliver a sports alternative provision programme. We also offer Higher Education Provision in Sports Coaching and Sports Business.
- Unemployed
We run the Training Ground Programme for NEET young people aged 16-25 and the Community Living Room is also accessed by unemployed older people, with volunteering opportunities.
- People with Disabilities
Be it a mental disability where beneficiaries can access Coping Thru Football, or physical disability where we have been delivering parasport sessions and events in schools. Also through the Premier League Fans Fund we support the disabled fan group.
- Community
We were involved in bringing together families from schools in the local community with a charity 'Run Kids Run' to organise a fun run, starting in the stadium and the local adjacent park. As previously mentioned providing the Community Living Room.
- Homeless & ex convicts
The Divert Project involves working in custody suites in Partnership with Bounce Back and the London Violence Reduction Unit to try to prevent those arrested from reoffending, providing information for services, employment, training, housing etc.
- Carers
The training ground programme can assist young carers or adult carers up to 25ys old with mentoring, information, advice and guidance for education, training and employment opportunities, as well as employability skills workshops.
- People in poverty
We provide a Holiday Activities and Food Programme with local boroughs that are free for the beneficiaries that live in these areas.
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
Premier League Fans Fund enables us to support club outreach and the development of diverse fan groups; including PunjabiO's, and MeshuganO's.
- Marginalised or vulnerable groups
As well as supporting club outreach for the development of fan groups for PunjabiO's and MeshuganO's(Jewish), we have also developed RainbO's(LGBTQI+), a Female and a disabled fan group.
- The General Public / Mankind
We help support the club with family zones on matchdays.
Our Vision for a better future
How the charity helps
- Provides Services
Our Social Value in Media
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Title:
Social Value -
Media Name:
Leyton Orient Trust Twitter -
Media Date:
2026/05/28 -
Description:
Article describing our social impact, calculated by English Football League in the Community -
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Title:
Leyton Orient Trust launches new Friends and Patrons programme -
Media Name:
Leyton Orient Football Club -
Media Date:
2025/09/17 -
Description:
Leyton Orient Football Club promoting the Trust's Friends and Patrons programme launch, including our social impact -
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Our goals to make a difference
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To deliver and develop relevant and inspiring Health and Well Being programmes, to help improve life chances and opportunity to those most in need.
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To deliver and develop relevant and inspiring Educational and Life Skills programmes, to help improve life chances and opportunity to those most in need.
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Working with Leyton Orient to help make both viable and sustainable to maximize impact to the local community including socially and economically.
Beneficiary Testimonials
Game Changer 1-1 mentoring Participant
School pupil
Partner Testimonials
First and foremost, away from football, is the guidance that they get from Kenny, and the rest of the team. How that impacts them not only as players, but socially and psychologically, and as young men and women growing up and you can see the development… you're not just coming to improve as a player but as a person.
PFA Assessor-About our college study programme volunteers
Professional Footballers Association
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