Eriona Mehmeti

Pro Touch SA

WHO WE ARE Pro Touch SA is a registered Community interest Company born out of a desire to use the power of sport to encourage young Londoners to unleash their potential. Established in 2006, Pro Touch SA delivers structured community sports and elite football programs in over 10 London boroughs to young people aged 4-25 and as well as engaging with their families who require support and guidance. We started as a soccer academy offering opportunities to gifted and talented footballers, but have evolved to providing healthy active lifestyle opportunities to young people, with everything from fitness to fencing and more. With rising cuts and closure to services, we see it as a responsibility to provide much-needed services around community, youth, and sports to engage with hard-to-reach children and young people in inner-city London. Alongside our community projects, we also run an Elite football academy, run by qualified coaches who have helped develop, mentor, and guide over 40 plus young "gifted and talented" athletes aged between 9-25 years old signing schoolboy, scholarship, or professional contracts within professional football clubs in England. As a not-for-profit organization, we re-invest all profit back into the programs we operate across London. PRO TOUCH SA - COMMUNITY With the lack of and closure of a number of services and initiatives across the city, we have taken responsibility to provide much of the needed services around community, youth, and sport. PRO TOUCH SA - ELITE ACADEMY The Elite Academy provides a bridge and education into the world of professional football not only for young people but their parents and families; behavior, etiquette, and everything that is required to thrive in a professional academy environment. Our young people play regularly against professional teams from the UK and abroad as well as participate in international tournaments in Croatia, Denmark, France, North Macedonia, Portugal, and Spain.