Backyard Football League Australia
This project's parent organization is Backyard Football League Australia Incorporated
It operates in Australia
It uses Indigenous games and Netball
Entered the Best New Project
More about Backyard Football League Australia
Backyard Football was an initiative piloted in a small regional community affected by drought in rural South Australia. The population of available males in the age bracket 17-39 years are unable to play Saturday football due to skills and work commitments as farms get bigger. The target group represents nearly 80% of available males.
The project was to encourage people to play a game of Australian Rules Football in August 2007 and run an event around them. It relied on men overcoming there fears and phobias to come together with people they did not know and play together. The mainaim was to introduce the to a wider network of people that could lead to increased employment opportunities, business development ideas and importantly most of all to build self esteem amongst each other and in the wider community.
Players attracted to Backyard Football were policemen, lawyers, business people, unemployed, under employed, white collar,blue collar workers. It reverses the lack of opportunities for social inclusion and networking outside of "match day"