Celtic FC Foundation

Celtic FC Foundation, the charitable arm of Celtic Football Club, embodies the club's founding mission to alleviate poverty and advance social justice through inclusive, anti-discriminatory action prioritizing dignity, respect, compassion, and community empowerment. Guided by values of equity across gender, age, religion, race, and ability, it drives funding toward high-impact grassroots interventions blending immediate relief with long-term empowerment, believing sustainable change arises from direct service delivery, strategic partnerships, and leveraging community loyalty to tackle root causes of disadvantage.

It supports initiatives improving health via mental health counselling, crisis recovery cafés, and fuel poverty relief through fuel banks and winter warmer packs; promoting equality with social inclusion programs like sensory rooms for autism spectrum disorder, lunch breaks for dementia patients, and ability counts activities for physical disabilities and Down syndrome; encouraging learning through education programs, employability training, skills development, and youth mentoring via cashback gateways to employment and health opportunities; and tackling poverty with food insecurity solutions including daily children's meals through international kitchens partnerships addressing hunger in crisis zones. Funded activities encompass direct outreach like paradise pit stops for mental health, peer support groups, therapeutic activities, family crisis interventions, and community-led nutrition projects for children and young people facing exclusion, alongside capacity building for grassroots organizations serving families in poverty, care leavers, and isolated individuals with complex needs.

Exclusions include core costs, unrestricted funding, and projects misaligned with poverty alleviation, health equity, or inclusion priorities. Distinctive for its football club heritage mobilizing global supporters for local-global impact, it prioritizes children and young people in urban poverty, families experiencing cost-of-living crises, disabled individuals with autism or learning disabilities, dementia sufferers, and socially excluded communities through preventative, trauma-informed, person-centred approaches favoring innovative partnerships over standalone efforts.