Rio Ferdinand Foundation

About Us

The Rio Ferdinand Foundation supports and empowers young people from working class communities, tackling racism and inequality, and provides opportunities and pathways to deliver social mobility and realise personal potential were, and remain, the cornerstone of our work. Alongside Rio, 70% of our leadership team are from Caribbean and African communities and all our Trustees and staff have lived experience of at least some of the issues our work is tackling.

What it’s like to work for us?

Creating Opportunities:

We create opportunities for young people to tackle inequality, achieve their personal potential and drive social change. The Foundation provides support under four strategic themes: Safe spaces, Health and Wellbeing, Strong, Safe and Inclusive Communities and Progression, Skills and Employability.

We are a value driven organization, and pride ourselves on using these values in our work. Working with young people and partnerships from projects across the UK, we have developed these core values which underpin everything we do:-

• Youth-led: young people are at the heart of everything we do, inspiring us to evolve and adapt, so we can support them to realise their full potential.
• Empowering: Enabling young people to recognize their skills, giving them ownership to achieve their individual needs.
• A connector: Bringing young people their communities and our partnership network together; valuing diversity and creating a shared sense of belonging.
• Resilient: Bouncing back with enthusiasm and fresh solutions, continually learning and taking the time to actively ‘listen’ and respond to the world in which we work.
• Courageous: With a ‘can-do’, open, supportive and honest approach – we are not afraid to do things differently.

The type of jobs we recruit for?

• Youth Work
• Sports Coaching
• Fitness
• Traineeships

Benefits

Flexible schedule
Company events
Wellness programmes