Project Director

Errol Bignall has over 20 years professional football coaching experience, youth inclusion and community work. He previously spent over 10 years working abroad and holds 17 years experience as a professional coach with Chelsea Football Club's Community programme, as well as with the National Award Winning Kickz project which successfully engaged 45,000 young people via 100 different projects across the country.  

Errol is currently the Project Director at the Guy Mascolo Football Charity (GMFC) & the Michail Antonio and Guy Mascolo Football college in Battersea, South London which helps young people by using football as the tool of enngagement with a range of complex needs, such as homelessness, mental illness, poverty, and offers education, support, pathways and opportunities for their young people.  Whilst at the Charity he has been awarded London FA Football Coach of the Year 2016, Wandsworth Coach/instructor of the Year 2017 and holds multiple awards in mentoring and sports leadership.

Funded by the British council He has contributed to developing the quality of support systems and increase participation in grassroots football programmes on the island of Rhodes ,Greece.

Throughout his career he has been a solid rock for young people and their parents or guardians,. Errol genuinely cares for young people, wants to see them succeed, and wants to bring about a more harmonious spirit of community in every sense.

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