The Premier League has released its Creating Chances 2012 report, which shares the success of our partnership programme, Premier Skills, and highlights the many other initiatives run by the Premier League and its clubs in local communities across the UK and overseas.

Premier Skills is a partnership between the Premier League and the British Council which uses football as a tool to engage with and develop the skills of young people across 20 countries in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Since 2007, Premier Skills has delivered tremendous impact creating training opportunities for 2,300 grassroots coaches and referees who in turn have reached over 400,000 young people.

The fantastic work of Premier Skills is highlighted in the Creating Chances 2012 report in three case studies showcasing activities that took place in Botswana, China and India.

Barobi Nwako from Botswana is one of Premier Skills’ recently trained community coaches and she explains the impact of the programme on her development and her community. “Now my eyes have definitely been opened by Premier Skills. Children in our community have responded wonderfully to it and we have all benefited from it a great deal. For my community back home I have organised a football tournament, where I invited six football teams from different parts of the country, including the national ladies’ team.”

Since 2011, four projects inspired by the Premier League’s ground-breaking Kickz programme in the UK have been created through Premier Skills in Brazil, India and Indonesia. In the Creating Chances 2012 report Sanjay Sarkar, British Council Project Manager Society in East India, talks about the success of the program there – called Kolkata Goalz – which has reached over 600 marginalised young people showing them that they can break out of a cycle of crime, rebuild their trust in the police and follow a pathway into education.

To find out more about the achievements of Premier Skills during 2012, and the many other good causes run by the Premier League and its clubs, read the Creating Chances 2012 report, which you can download from the Premier League website.