HAMPSHIRE’S footballing body is encouraging its staff to 'up their game' and help the planet.

Hampshire FA has teamed up with Planet League to roll out Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) days for staff and is calling on teams to take part.

Planet League is a behaviour-tech platform using the power of sport to bridge the gap between climate change and people taking personal action.

The newly-established Hampshire FA CSR team with the backing of the county FA’s chief executive Neil Cassar and board of directors, have approved CSR days for Hampshire FA staff this year and into 2023.

All Hampshire FA staff are invited to take a working day off to complete a minimum of five CSR activities from Planet League’s list of activities to support and score for the planet and the county FA, these include 

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Mr Cassar said: “We are delighted to be working with Planet League on this exciting new initiative that we have actively promoted to our staff.

"We have even already received sign ups and line managers have factored in CSR hours into the staff's work schedules, emphasising a real drive to change things for the better, starting with steps like this. The CSR group might well be a newly established team, but it has seen large successes in a very short timeframe, and we have only just started.”

The initiative has been launched after Hampshire FA became the first ever county FA to achieve an award at the Football Business Awards ceremony this year, winning bronze for the Best Corporate Social Responsibility Scheme or Initiative.

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Richard Holmes, head of operations at Planet League, added: “We’re delighted to partner with Hampshire FA, it’s great to see a forward-thinking organisation creating space for staff to engage with taking personal climate action through CSR, and to reward employees with a day off work demonstrates its importance. We look forward to seeing the impact the staff of Hampshire FA and the football communities of Hampshire can have.”