Recognising the impact sport can have on the environment, LED is supporting Football Rebooted & Devon FA on their mission to rehome at least one million pairs of quality football boots across the UK, to stop them ending up in landfill.
It is free and easy to donate your ‘pre-played’ football boots and AstroTurf trainers.
There is a collection bin provided by Devon FA located at Axminster, Ottery & Bucklers Mead Leisure Centres as well as The Hangar Health & Fitness in Axminster or you can bring your clean, paired, good quality boots to any of our leisure centres and we will donate them for you.
As part of the mission to rehome the donated boots they are prioritising boot requests from schools, clubs and charitable organisations to find good homes for all the boots collected. Meaning your donated boots will be going to someone who really needs them. The Devon FA boot bank located at Axminster has a QR code taking people to a request form so if we don’t have the right size, you can put in your request and they may be available elsewhere.
Every time a pair of football boots or trainers is made, around 30 lbs of carbon is generated, having a detrimental impact on the environment.
This initiative aims to rehome one million pairs of ‘pre-played’ football boots and AstroTurf trainers, saving families a fortune, as well as 136,000 tonnes of carbon – the same as taking 7,000 cars off the road for a year or turning the energy off in one million medium-sized houses for a week. Find out more.
Join us in making a difference.