Striker Online has a birds eye view of the Grassroots Landscape. We see the problems and opportunities that exist. We are driven to help our community as much as possible. The community of all of us that is invested in grassroots football. As parents, players, volunteers, service providers, sponsors, administrators, spectators, and referees. All of us are in this together, and we are a lot of people who love the game and the memories we have and continue to make.

We cannot keep depending on the same wells to get our funds from. We must learn to generate new income streams. New sustainable income streams that are generated from the ground up. We need to move forward as a community learning new skills and collaborating to tell the stories that we live through season after season in a way that attracts commercial sponsorship and support.

Until we begin discussing this and sharing the knowledge we will not progress, and we will continue with a grassroots sponsorship model that has not changed in over 50 years.

To this aim we hope to begin holding online discussions with stakeholders. Conversations within podcasts so that the community can learn from each other. So that we can network and develop as a community. We are a football community, whether we hire the electrician who sponsors Crumlin United Football Club Official or the one associated with Ratoath Harps Football Club is irrelevant, they are both Grassroots Super-heroes that have invested in the game they love. We as a community have the power to repay that investment and in so doing, increase their investment the following year.

Let's continue to compete on the pitch but learn to collaborate off it... we are inviting guests from all areas of and aspects of our community. We want to chat to sponsors and potential sponsors, to past, future and present chairmen, to club social media managers, to parents, to referees, to players... to anyone who is part of our community and wants to be part of the discussion, of the learning curve... of the journey to revolutionise #GrassrootsSponsorship

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