One Culture Football was established in 2017 to engage with young people from newly arrived or migrant backgrounds through the ‘world game‘ to create positive engagement opportunities and personal development whilst forging community connections with local sporting clubs, community leaders, youth services, council and other organisations.
One Culture Football provides weekly social football programs for multicultural youth who struggled to access local club structures in Adelaide due to financial restraints, accessibility or any other contributing factors. The football programs provide a weekly safe space for multicultural youth to play with friends, engage with the community and help build their own social and support networks.
One Culture Football hosts community engagement tournaments every school holidays which allows multicultural youth to play in competitive matches while also giving them access to community networks, sporting clubs, education services & job providers.
One Culture Football is founded on four pillars which include:
Connecting
Young people are socially connected
Young people participate in their communities
Young people actively contribute to their community
Developing
Young people have improved life & social skills
Young people can cope financially
Strengthening
Young people can face challenges with resilience
Young people can get the help they need through networks
Young people feel safe in their community
Pathways
Young people are linked to local football & sporting clubs
Young people are provided pathways to play football in state wide & national tournaments
Young people are provided pathways to better connect with their local communities
Young people are provided pathways to education & personal development training
Young people are provided pathways to employment