About this Event
A day with people who use football for good, and a night to go with it.
You know the feeling. You love this game, and you know it can be so much more than what it's become, more than ticket prices and TV deals and owners who treat your club like a spreadsheet.
At its best, football does real good: it pulls people in, lifts communities, gives someone who's been shut out a place to belong.
On Saturday 13 June, the people making that happen are coming to Liverpool, for a day of it, and a proper night after. Folk running football projects that change lives. Clubs that decided everyone means everyone. Fans who built something of their own when no one would give them a say. Then music on the waterfront til midnight.
Hosted by FC Community, Liverpool's own fan-owned club.
Come for the day, the night, or both. One ticket, £10
THE PANELS — 12 noon til 6pm
Activism in the Boardroom Marco Davide (FC DalPozzo)/ Tommy Keiner (FC Community) / Alex Timperley (Author, 'For the Love: How Football Supporters Can Change the World' )/ Daniel Fieldsend (Author, 'This is Our Game')
Who actually runs your club? Not the name on the website — the person making the decisions. This is about what happens when fans stop asking for a seat at the table and build their own table. Speakers from fan-owned clubs in Italy and Germany talking about how they did it and what they'd do differently.
Activism in the Community Elly Smith (Vauxhall Law Centre) / Siobhan Taylor-Ward (Housing Law Project, Liverpool) / Paul Morgan (Kit it Out) / Guest speaker from Spirit of Shankly
Football clubs sit in the middle of communities but most of them act like they're somewhere else entirely. This is about the ones that don't. People running projects that use football to do something useful, not as a PR exercise but because it's the right thing to do and it actually works.
Activism in the Women's & non binary Game Honor Gitsham (Jericho Athletic) / Trans Enby FC / Deborah Dilworth (Football Supporters Association)
There's a version of supporting women's & non binary football that's all hashtags and pink kits. Then there's the version where you give the women's and non binary team the same budget, the same ground, and the same vote. This panel is about the second version. What does it look like when equality is in the rulebook, not just on the poster?
Activism for Inclusion Daniel Brown (Liverpool Homeless FC) / Isaac Stewart (Wirral Change)
Who gets to feel welcome at a football ground? Not who's technically allowed in, who actually feels like they belong? This is about the clubs and projects making that real for people who've been told football isn't for them. Refugee football, disability inclusion, and what happens when a club decides that everyone means everyone.
THE MUSIC — 6pm til midnight
Mel Bowen & The Original Series
Shellsuit (Electric Set)
JJ Maddox
DJ Manoli Moriaty
DJ Bangers
Sociable DJs
Live music on the waterfront. The Dock Wall. The bit where you stop talking about changing football and start having a proper night out.
fc.community
Event venue & nearby stays
The Dock Wall Bar, 25 Dickson Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups — all the happenings, one place.