PRESS RELEASE - OSCAR UK TOUR 2023 OSCAR Foundation Proud to Announce Fourth Tour of the United Kingdom in 2023 OSCAR Foundation is a community based Sports for Development (S4D) organisation that uses the power of football to encourage children to stay in school and equip them with skills to make them resilient and future ready. Through our Football and Life Skills, Education and Young Leader programmes, we have empowered 14,000 children and youth in low-income communities in India since 2010. Since OSCAR’s inception, we have had the opportunity to organise international exposure visits for our beneficiaries. 107 children and youth from our programme have travelled abroad for exposure visits and tournaments in many countries including the United Kingdom, Spain and Denmark, where our girls team won the prestigious Dana Cup tournament. We are excited to announce that OSCAR Foundation will be organising a tour of the United Kingdom for boys and girls in 2023 in partnership with OSCAR International. This will be our fourth tour of the UK following successful visits in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Through the tour, schools across the UK host our beneficiaries and play friendly football matches while also organising academic, cultural and extra curricular activities. Over the years, the OSCAR UK Tours have attracted visits from eminent personalities including World Cup Winner Juan Mata, Arsenal legend Tony Adams and HRH Sophie, the Countess of Wessex. The tours have had a life changing impact on the lives of the children attending. Members of our UK tour in 2018 went on to win the 2019 Dana Cup held in Denmark. Sagar and Rakesh, alums of the 2017 tour were awarded scholarships for a training camp at Bengaluru FC. Priya, an alum of the 2018 tour was selected to play for Maharashtra in 2019. Anita, an alum of the 2018 tour
represented India at the recently held FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup while Omkar, an alum of the 2017 tour was selected to represent Mumbai City FC. NOTE: The tour spots are awarded on merit after open trials for OSCAR Foundation beneficiaries across different locations. The tour is sponsored by OSCAR International and UK partner schools. Children and their families do not make any financial contributions towards expenses of the tour. We would appreciate any editorial press coverage on the same. For further details, please contact Arvind Premanand Communications Manager, OSCAR Foundation communications@oscar-foundation.org
Lucinda Sowerbutts Head, OSCAR International lucinda@oscar-foundation.org