Save Our Grassroots

Uniting voices across the UK to push MPs for climate action and protect our grassroots.

Match funding

Save Our Grassroots has announced a new £100,000 matched funding pot to help grassroots clubs across the country install new nature-based solutions at local pitches to prevent flooding and game cancellations. It is estimated that over 100,000 games are cancelled due to poor pitch conditions, and the total pledged equates to £1 for every grassroots match postponed each season in the country.

Upcoming Events

More events will be added across the UK this winter and spring. Stay tuned for updates.

Past Events

31 Oct 2025: Kick-Off Event - Hingley Fields, Birmingham

About our campaign

Save Our Grassroots is a national movement to protect Britain’s most iconic community sports grounds and green spaces using humour, pride, and togetherness to spark action.

Our grassroots pitches are the heart of our communities; they’re where we scored our first goal, met our best mates, took our kids for kickabouts, and turned up rain or shine. But flooding, waterlogging, and extreme weather are putting these cherished places at risk.

This campaign taps into what makes us British: our love for the outdoors, our unbeatable team spirit, our dry wit, and our belief that when something’s under threat, we roll up our sleeves and save it. 

Our Story: Phase 1 (2024)

Launched in 2024, Save Our Grassroots united over 100 charities, sports clubs and community leaders to show Britain’s love for the pitches we’re losing to extreme weather.

With support from major athletes, environmental champions and everyday players, the campaign reached more than 200 million people, trended across social media, and created a national groundswell of support to protect the game at its roots.

“People live for this; they live for Sunday mornings. It's unthinkable to think these places could be underwater.”
Paul Merson
Designer
Save Our Grassroots Event Picture

What’s Next: Phase 2 (2025–2026)

This season, we’re taking Save Our Grassroots back to the floodplains – with a new round of community-led events that celebrate sport, pride and local action. Working with local clubs, councils and nature organisations, each event will spotlight how nature-based solutions can protect the fields that bring us together. 

Get Involved

Want to help save the pitches that make Britain play?

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