Allwyn, operator of The National Lottery, has launched a new partnership with the Watford FC’s Community Sports and Education Trust to expand colleagues’ opportunities to drive positive social value in local communities. Allwyn employs 1,100 people at its UK headquarters in Watford.

Impact For Good is Allwyn’s programme that empowers colleagues to support causes and communities. It does this through volunteering and matched fundraising. The partnership with Watford FC’s Community Sports and Education Trust gives colleagues direct access to high-impact volunteering. These opportunities support the Trust’s projects in sports, education, health, and community across Hertfordshire and parts of Greater London.

Through Allwyn’s Impact For Good programme, each permanent and fixed-term colleague receives up to two days (16 hours) of paid volunteering time per year. Colleagues can use this time in hourly increments or as full days. Four partners funded by The National Lottery provide impactful opportunities across all four of The National Lottery’s funding sectors: Community, Heritage, Arts, and Sport.

Watford FC’s Community Sports and Education Trust engages over 16,000 people annually. The Trust delivers inclusive sports, health, education, and community initiatives locally and at Vicarage Road Stadium. Volunteers help generate over £22 million in annual social value for Watford.

Volunteering opportunities for Allwyn colleagues will include: youth sport, mentoring and positive role modelling through Premier League Kicks and community football programmes; life skills and inspiration through sport, from football development programmes, including pathways into the Watford FC Academy, to dementia-support projects; sports, health and wellbeing programmes; holiday schemes and multisport activities; major sports and community events.

To celebrate the launch, the Trust will visit Allwyn’s Clarendon Works office in Watford on 15 April. Colleagues will have the chance to meet the Trust team, learn about the available volunteering opportunities, and enter a competition to win tickets to upcoming Watford FC matches.