What started as a Sunday league football team in London - named after an Argentine club - became a foundation changing lives in 18 countries.Henry May is the founder of The Huracan Foundation, which backs teachers and community leaders in underserved communities around the world, using football as a catalyst for education and social change. With over 4,000 children reached and 47% of them girls, the results speak for themselves.In this episode, Henry shares the unlikely origin story behind the Foundation, the model that makes it work, and why he believes football is one of the most powerful tools we have for transforming young lives.📺 Subscribe to the channel today.

In this episode of the Power of Sport, I sit down with Helgi Thor and Bergthor Bodvarsson - two of the people behind FC Sæko, an independent football club in Reykjavík for men and women living with mental health problems.

FC Sæko was started in 2011 with a simple idea: get people out of isolation, onto a pitch, and give them a reason to show up. Titles and diagnoses stay outside the field. In 2018, UEFA recognised their work with the Grassroots Gold Award - and that same year, Bergthor was voted Citizen of Reykjavík.

We talk about what it actually looks like week to week, what showing up on a pitch does for someone who has been isolated, and what over a decade of this work has taught them about mental health, community and the real power of sport.

In this episode of the Power of Sport, I sit down with Mike de Giorgio - the founder of Greenhouse Sports, a charity that has used sport and mentoring to transform the lives of over 60,000 young people across London.Mike sold his financial consultancy business in 2001 and chose to put his energy, skills and experience into something with a very different kind of purpose. What began as a small holiday coaching pilot on a housing estate in West London has grown into 65 full-time programmes running across 16 London boroughs - with full-time coach-mentors embedded inside schools, 48 weeks a year.We talk about what drove that decision, what it really means to use sport as a tool for change, the model that makes Greenhouse Sports unlike anything else out there, and what over two decades of doing this work has taught him.Greenhouse Sports is exactly the kind of organisation this podcast exists to shine a light on - independent, standalone, and doing extraordinary work without the backing of a professional club or federation behind them. The sport for good space is so much bigger and richer than football foundations and club partner charities, and Mike's story is a powerful reminder of that.

Mike was awarded an OBE for his services to sport and community and was named one of the Evening Standard's most influential Londoners.

This is a brilliant conversation about purpose, impact, and the real power of sport.#PowerOfSport #GreenhouseSports #SportForGood #YouthDevelopment #SocialImpact #Mentoring #London #Podcast #IndependentCharity #sportforchange