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Alive & Kicking make cheap, tough, repairable footballs, netballs and volleyballs using African skills and African leather. Each carries a message about HIV/AIDS and malaria.
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We make the balls that make a difference!
Alive & Kicking is a UK registered charity that makes cheap, tough, repairable footballs, netballs and volleyballs using African skills and African leather. Each carries a message about HIV/AIDS, malaria or TB. We employ over 150 Stitchers across three countries and have produced over 200,000 balls which have been donated to children across Africa. Read more here.
Find out more about each of our country operations:
Balls Into Africa 2010 - Help us get 100,000 balls to the poorest chidren in sub-Saharan Africa by the 2010 Football World Cup
Click here to donate balls now or Find out more here
If you can raise enough money to donate 50 balls, we will send you an Alive & Kicking ball as a thank you for your efforts!
Please join our growing list of supporters. This was Barrack Obama on a recent visit to Kenya, taking time out to learn about Alive & Kicking. To find out about other great ways in which you can support us to help us achieve all our goals, including developing our health programme for young people, please click here.
Concert in Memory of Jim Cogan
On November 30th 2008 The Barbican will host an evening of choral music in memory of our founder Jim Cogan, and in support of Alive & Kicking and Jim's youngest charity the Good Earth Trust. The concert will be given by City of London Choir, The Boys' Choir of Westminster Under School, and The Royal Philharmonic Ochestra, and will be conducted by Hilary Davan Wetton. It will feature works by Finzi and Vaughan Williams. Alive & Kicking and the Good Earth Trust will be introduced at the concert by former England Cricket Captain Mike Brearley OBE. Join us for an evening of music and celebration and support Alive & Kicking. Ticket prices £16, £20, and £25. Ticket proceeds will go to supporting Alive & Kicking and the Good Earth Trust. Click here for more information on tickets and to download a ticket booking form.
Interested in sponsoring the event or advertising? Please click here for more info.
Latest News
Celebrity Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? - Gladiator Spartan Battles for Alive & Kicking
Roderick Bradley (Spartan from The Gladiators) is to feature on the Sky One quiz show Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? Spartan will take on the wits of a 10 year old to raise as much money as he can for Alive & Kicking. The new series starts from Sunday 21st September at 6pm on Sky 1. Watch this space for more news.
Alive & Kicking ball to journey the world with the Spirit of Football
An Alive & Kicking ball is going to be used as the 'Olympic Torch' of the 2010 Football World Cup! Find out more here.
Alive & Kicking is thrilled to announce that through the Safaricom Foundation, Vodafone will be our sponsor for our next HIV Awareness Roadshow in Kenya! Read more.......
ALIVE & KICKING BALLS HIT SHELVES IN NAKUMATT STORES IN KENYA!
Our balls have now started retailing in Nakumatt - Kenya's largest supermarket chain. The launch took place on 16th July at Nakumatt Junction. Attendees included Harambee Stars' national football coach Francis Kimanzi; Kenyan football legend and A&K Kenya Trustee JJ Masiga; A&K Kenya HIV/AIDS Awareness Ambassador Issac Juma; and Auma Obama, Sports for Social Change Coordinator for East Africa.
Alive and Kicking is partnering with the Great Football Giveaway to donate 2,000 balls to children in poor communities in Zambia in October 2008. The project will be run by Rob Kinder, Sam Trusty and Jamie Whitcroft, in conjunction with the Great Football Giveaway and Alive and Kicking Zambia. Find out more about the project here, and donate a ball online now to be added to those that the Great Football Giveaway donates between now and October.
Check out the West Ham United Goal Keeper Robert Green signing an Alive and Kicking Ball for Children in Kenya. Robert was out in Kenya with AMREF, and came across our balls at one of their Football Tournaments, where he very kindly signed one.
Show your support for Alive & Kicking by purchasing a TONIC t-shirt! TONIC will donate a large portion of the revenue from each Luella ‘Stag Tee' to provide one football to a school child in Kenya. Visit TONIC today (link to www.tonicgen.com). For the rest of the story, click here.
Join our group on Facebook - Alive & Kicking Supporters Club - Membership is already over 600!