Don’t X The Line (CIC) continued to build strong relationships within our communities, and the professional game. We continued with our projects and Liverpool FC and Everton FC, continue to support our work on REFspect. They help to support the campaign using their social media outlets, websites and match day programmes. The DXTL Heart Of Gold Initiative is also attracting a lot of support. It was set up for children with mental health struggles to benefit from grassroots football delivering the message that a welcome exists within the communities across the nation, with new volunteers and organisations such as YPAS and Urban Health UK being involved. The latter provide mental health nurses acting in a voluntary capacity as well as building partnerships together. Our young commentators programme has been setup to give children a voice by recognising their strengths and positive thinking. It has helped our young commentators gain skills such as team work, communication skills and also build confidence. This has continued this year with one of our outstanding young commentators staying with us to take over the reigns and become an ambassador for the campaign. He is helping to build the next generation of youngsters wanting to learn the basics of podcasting, editing, and programming, hoping to follow in his footsteps and become future ambassadors, using their new found skills to help develop the next group of youngsters. We aim to reach out to the many deprived children, and those having mental health struggles, to once again build up their confidence and meet new friends along the way. Guests who are invited into the podcast studio are always taken aback at the way the young people express themselves. They study who it is they are interviewing and how they began their quest for success. This makes the interview relaxed and often humorous, as they bring the best out of the guests. Our young commentators reflect the work and philosophy of Don’t X The Line by adopting the spirit of inclusion, encouragement, fair play and REFspect/Respect. Don’t X The Line is very proud to have continued to bring people together within the community, adding new ideas to help make an impact that encourages good health and wellbeing amongst our young generations. The ambassadors for Don’t X The Line certainly understand the impact that the campaign is having towards respect and mental health struggles, achieved by keeping referees officiating and children playing without unwanted abuse, demonstrating how the youngsters benefit from having a good attitude on and off the field of play. Within the Heart Of Gold Initiative DXTL formed a children’s choir to release the song Lean On Me with the help of the Ragamuffins singer David Jaggs, Comedian and actor John May and ex Liverpool FC goalkeeper Chris Kirkland. With financial support from the National Lottery. The song is continuing to raise awareness for children suffering from mental health struggles and get the message out there at grassroots football and is available on YouTube and social media, Spotify and apple. DXTL is still active in building relationships with referee organisations that are involved at both professional (PGMOL) and grassroots level, supporting the key messages we portray throughout grassroots football once again, encouraging spectators to adopt the spirit of encouragement and fair play. Football and sporting activities are also about passion used in the appropriate way. We will never take the passion away from it, but we will always encourage good behaviour. PGMOL match officials, continue to wear Don't X The Line t shirts annually during their warm-ups across premier league grounds around the country on a nominated weekend each season. The support from the media continues to grow. Our Grassroots Podcast weekender show, DXTLTV from the touchlines on YouTube, is still going strong. We have now added Spotify and Riverside FM, to advertise the grassroots weekend show. Our DXTL young ambassadors help to pass on their experiences to help train new ambassadors from disadvantaged communities. This includes the creation of links to official football bodies and other like-minded organisations. We continue to visit junior football leagues each weekend and our presence is welcomed by leagues such as Walton and Kirkdale, North Liverpool and John O’Leary leagues. Our visits make a strong impact on poor touchline behaviour. We regularly deliver a workshop which targets parents, managers and coaches and participants emphasising their roles and safeguarding responsibilities which helps ensure good behaviour throughout our sport, adding the changes that the FA implement each year and our Heart Of Gold Initiative on mental health struggles is also included, with supporters YPAS, Urban Health UK and business Shine Business Solutions. Referee ambassadors as far away as Sussex are also on board. We have developed Referee awareness score cards for referees to assess the standards of behaviour on and off the field. They have proved a great success with the young and experienced referees throughout the junior leagues. These cards benefit our referees and are used very successfully at our the above mentioned junior leagues We continue our work with grassroots organisations, such as County Football Associations and the National Children’s Football Alliance. Our main supporter, the PFA, support our t-shirts that are worn by the professional referees annually. They also supply them to our volunteers including some for grassroots referees that they wear at tournaments and some league games. These act as a reminder to parents and other spectators to stop poor behaviour. In Professional Football we have support from all governing bodies with an annual partnership continuing with the PFA (Professional Footballers Association) who supply the Premier League and the EFL Wembley Cup Finals with our campaign Match Officials T Shirts.

Our stakeholders are principally young people from disadvantaged communities. We also benefit their parents and guardians, football officials and junior football leagues who experience greater respect and more acceptable behaviour. We help children to access opportunities locally when household budgets are tighter than ever and sports facilities continue to increase prices taking them beyond the reach of many disadvantaged children and young people. We are continuing to form partnerships with community organisations to help us to tackle the many issues impacting the lives of our youngsters in a negative way. We do this by building activities that will help to attract them to a more positive way of life. Anti-social behaviour is still at a high level, including the pull of gang associations, along with the tempting instant rewards for some young people associated with the supply of drugs which still blights our communities. Awareness of the Don't X The Line campaign helps to prompt the managers of the teams to raise awareness of the dangers of becoming involved in negative pathways. Once again through junior football leagues, websites, and our online streaming program we will continue to create positive attitudes, encouraging and addressing the tensions between groups and opening pathways into action by addressing this to the junior leagues, team managers and football coaches. We will continue to work with the young people and listen to them, giving them a voice on their positive and negative experiences. We will tailor what we do to the needs of our stakeholders. Our stakeholders then become our ambassadors, not just our trained ambassadors described above but all of our participants, spreading the word to other young people with similar issues. We are also portraying the message to local businesses, such as supporters at Aintree Sofas and Shine Business Solutions who recognise the work we do within our communities and who add their support by getting involved in building a strong relationship amongst our stake holders. Don't X The Line also recognise that Mental Health is increasingly becoming a problem amongst children. That is why we have added the Heart Of Gold initiatives. We will use grassroots football to portray the message to the grassroots football family, to help us to make a difference by giving the children a voice to build their confidence and to improve their wellbeing. We are One Step Ahead On Mental Health.

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