Global camps

EPF's camps deliver training in sport, empowerment and leadership through existing local teams, clubs, academies, CSOs, and NGOs that focus on sports development, education, health and empowerment for girls and women. 

We deliver camps that not only improve the calibre of the women’s game and capacities of women in sport, but also increase the access of girls and women to football and build them into change-makers for their communities, meanwhile introducing traditional NGO beneficiaries to the transformative power of sport. 

NGO, Team, and club SUPPORT

Outside of its Global Camps, upon request EPF works with locally-based organisations - including NGOs, CBOs, CSOs, teams, clubs, sports academies, schools, community leadership and governance actors - to offer insights, technical guidance and operational support for their respective programmes and activities.

Recent Connections: RV United (South Africa), Women's Football Federation (Libya), FFAV (Vietnam), Mabel Velarde Coba Academy (Ecuador), Atoot (Nepal), Future Stars Academy (Tanzania), Somaliland Women’s Sport / Somali First (Somaliland), Girls United Football Association (Mexico, UK), Spirit of Football (Germany), The Sports Bra Project (US), Right to Play and Reclaim Childhood (Jordan), Shining Stars FC (India), War Child (global), Motseeo FC (Lesotho), the Centre for Sport and Human Rights, among many others.  

Equality SummitS

Days before the 2019 WWC Final, Equal Playing Field hosted its first Equality Summit, an international conference in Lyon on women’s football alongside Football Women International and Athletes for Hope. 150 international leaders in women’s football and sport delivered panels and breakout sessions on coaching, female athlete physiology, athlete safeguarding and accountability, women in football media, rights-based football policy, commercialisation and professionalisation of women’s football, and football governance.

Since then, EPF and partners have held two more Equality Summits at the Women’s European Championships in London in 2021, and at the FIFA WWC in Australia and New Zealand in 2023. All built on the same model of bringing together a deliberate group of diverse leaders and gamechangers in women’s football and sport more broadly, EPF’s Equality Summits have set the standard for action-driven forums tackling complex issues in women’s football.

Keynote speakers have included sports legend Billie Jean King, England and Arsenal icon Kelly Smith, USWNT members Julie Foudy and Kristine Lilly, President of the US Soccer Federation Cindy Parlow Cone, and more. EPF’s Equality Summits have been delivered in partnership with great supporters such as ESPNW, Women Win, and the US Embassies in Sydney and Paris. || View Photos

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

The Equal Playing Field network spans far and wide! We regularly call upon and connect our community with opportunities to share their stories and reach new audiences through speaking engagements.

Our three co-founders as well as various friends of EPF have spoken at schools, universities, conferences, media interviews, TED Talks and more, on topics such as leadership, entrepreneurship, professional and grassroots football for women, inclusivity, diversity, women in sport, and gender equality.

storytelling & content creation

EPF’s Media Team is made up of talented creators who help us amplify stories and develop multimedia tools for us in the sport-for-development space. The team regularly goes beyond sponsor and media requests to complete short films and photo documentation for partner organisations that support their programming, advocacy and fundraising initiatives.

We are currently in the process of finalising a 10-part skills and coaching video project of female elite players and coaches, to be translated into multiple languages and distributed to partners, sport-for-development actors, and women’s / girls football programmes, as well as publicly released online.

We are always seeking support to expand our capacity to create content and enable community development through football in a virtual world.

Resilience & leadership training

Project: Momentum Equality. EPF is working with partners across the gender equality and sport-for-development (S4D) space to develop a longer-term programme for grassroots organisations and amateur football clubs to build their leadership capacity, strengthen their organisational resilience, design tailored gender equality and equity strategies, and deliver community-based projects to increase the access of girls and women to football and to build the social cohesion of their communities -- strengthening the pathways for women in sport whatever their context. Get in touch to learn more about this initiative.

2022-2023 journey of the ball

One Ball, One World Project

For the year leading up to the FIFA WWC in Australia / New Zealand, EPF worked with Spirit of Football as the official gender equality partner for the One Ball, One World project - which journeyed from Battersea Park in London all the way to Auckland to raise awareness around three key pillars: fair play, gender equality and climate action in football. Engaging local activists, schools, clubs, and NGOs all the way up to heads of state and sporting institutions, the journey focused on education and building support for both accountability and sustainability in football across the three key pillars, enabling people and communities around the world to pledge their commitment to a better future for all. Besides co-designing the curriculum, EPF's global network and project ambassadors participated in the journey all the way to the World Cup.