Together Tottenham Targets 150,000 Opportunities For Local Young People
Tottenham Hotspur and its official charitable body, Spurs in the Community, have announced Together Tottenham – a single, connected pathway designed to improve life chances for young people in Tottenham and surrounding areas.
Bringing together the club and Spurs in the Community’s off-field work for the first time under one shared purpose, Together Tottenham will empower young people living near the stadium from their very first experience of Spurs – from primary school, throughout education, training and into a career. The mission is to create 150,000 meaningful opportunities for young people to learn, earn or lead by 2030.
Together Tottenham has been shaped by the club’s largest-ever impact survey, completed by more than 3,300 supporters during the summer. Fans identified opportunities for young people, local jobs and growth, and community safety as their leading priorities for the club beyond football.
More than 13,000 people take part in Spurs in the Community activities every year, generating £24m in social value for the local area. Since 2023, employment fairs at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium have attracted 3,500-plus jobseekers and delivered over 1,500 positive outcomes.
The club’s Global Football Development programmes reached 25,000 children in 2025/26, while the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham – the club-sponsored Sixth Form adjacent to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – continues to provide an outstanding local route into higher education, with 107 students securing places at Oxford and Cambridge since the school opened in 2017.
Globally, the club has engaged with more than 200,000 young people in the last 10 years through a Football Development programme delivered in partnership with Principal Partner, AIA.
The latest ONS estimates that show 981,000 young people aged 16 to 24 across the UK – 13% of that age group – were not in education, employment or training in April to June 2026.
Together Tottenham will work to ensure that a young person growing up in N17 should find every route to a good life close to home and know that their local club is there for them at every stage.
The complete Together Tottenham pathway has seven stages spanning ages five to 25 and beyond: early engagement in primary school; mentoring and world-of-work experiences in secondary school; first-work support; sixth-form study at the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham; undergraduate and postgraduate study on the new university campus; and routes back into the club, Spurs in the Community or partner organisations as an employee or mentor.
Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden, said: “Every young person deserves a fair shot at a good future, no matter where they grow up, and it is great to see Tottenham Hotspur and Spurs in the Community stepping up.
“Football sits at the heart of our communities, and through Together Tottenham young people across North London will be connected with jobs, apprenticeships, work experience, mentors and training to kickstart their careers.
“This is further evidence of the leading role football has to play in helping create opportunity for young people, with Youth Hubs already opening in football clubs up and down the country and the Premier League backing our Youth Guarantee to give every young person the chance to earn or learn.”
David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, said: “Tottenham made me who I am. The values I carry today, resilience, community and belief in the power of opportunity, were shaped by the people and places that surrounded me growing up here.
“That is why Together Tottenham means so much. It recognises something I have always known: that the young people of Tottenham have extraordinary talent and ambition. What they need is the support, opportunities and connections that allow that talent to flourish.
“This initiative represents a long-term commitment to ensuring that every young person, regardless of their background, can see a pathway to success. By working together across education, business, sport and the voluntary sector, we can open doors that might otherwise remain closed.”
Matthew Collecott, Chief Operations & Finance Officer, Tottenham Hotspur, and Chair of Trustees, Spurs in the Community, added: “Tottenham Hotspur was founded by local young people, and our connection to this community has shaped the club for almost a century and a half.
“Together Tottenham builds on years of established work by the club and Spurs in the Community to improve life chances for local young people—from education and football development to employment support and trusted local partnerships—which already reaches thousands of people and creates significant social value each year.
“What we are launching today is a clear, connected pathway – strengthening what we know already works and making it easier for young people to access the right opportunity at every stage of their journey.
“Our purpose is clear: to ensure that a young person growing up in Tottenham can see and access a pathway from school to further study, training and a rewarding career, close to home.
“The university campus will complete that pathway, connecting the opportunities young people receive through school, mentoring and employment support with undergraduate and postgraduate study, and then with routes into work, leadership and giving back to their community.
“By combining a strong foundation with significant new opportunities, we can turn the priorities identified by our fans into lasting impact for young people in Tottenham.”
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