Football programme · 5 evenings a week · Govandi
Five evenings a week, on a municipal ground the programme books and keeps safe, around ninety Govandi kids — girls' hour first, then the open batches — get real coaching, real boots and a ground where the only trouble is a two-goal deficit. We promise no trials, no careers and no stars: we promise Tuesday. This page costs Tuesday openly.
The attendance register and the kit ledger are the programme's only scoreboard. Nobody here is promised a selection, an academy or an escape story — the evening itself is the point, and it is enough.
For Donors who fund boots and coach wages, not trophies · Coaches and seniors with weekday evenings · People who know what an occupied evening keeps a kid from
These four are promises this page makes on your behalf. Keep them or change them — they are not decoration.
Ways to give or join
Every figure is this season's actual cost: match balls at the sports-shop bill rate, a boots-shin-socks kit at wholesale, the coaches' evening wages, the ground's booking fees. Football is cheap; reliability is what costs, and reliability is exactly what these cards buy.
One-time
Boots that fit, shin guards, two pairs of socks and a bag to own them in — bought at wholesale against the kit ledger, replaced mid-season when growing feet betray the ledger.
Monthly
Twenty-two evening sessions at a fair hourly wage for one qualified coach — including the women coaches the girls' hour runs on. The programme's biggest line and its whole spine.
Monthly
The municipal booking fees that keep the ground ours from five to eight, plus the month's match balls and bibs — the boring card that makes every other card possible.
Volunteer
Played at college or club level? Two evenings a week as an assistant coach — cones, drills, and being the adult who turns up when you said you would, which is the actual curriculum.
In kind
Outgrown boots in honest condition, pumps, whistles, first-aid refills, water jugs. Things, not money — brought to the ground at five, checked in against the ledger.
Pick the way you want to help and it lands in the form below. Picking another replaces it — this page records one intention at a time, not a basket. NO MONEY MOVES ON THIS PAGE: nothing is charged, deducted or collected here, and how giving actually happens is written under the form.
On the ground
No slum-backdrop pity shots and no fake stardom. These frames are placeholders for your own evenings — drills mid-flow, the kit cupboard's arithmetic, the girls' hour owning the first slot. Faces only with guardians' written consent.
How giving actually happens
Paste the trust's bank account name, number and IFSC here, and the UPI ID if you use one — exactly as the bank has them. State plainly that nobody collects cash at the ground in the programme's name.
Words you have permission to print
A parent, a coach or a senior volunteer, in their own words, with their name — collected with written permission. A player's words only with a guardian's written consent, and never a rescue narrative.
Your honest record
Last quarter's registers, dated: sessions held, average attendance from the register, kits issued by ledger count, money in and what it bought. The audited annual figures go here exactly as the auditor wrote them.
The frames above are placeholder photographs of the kind of work this page is about — not this organisation's own record, and never a person whose face buys sympathy. The slots below are deliberately blank: this is a template, and an invented beneficiary count, an invented donor or an invented 80G number would be a lie on a page asking people to give — and inventing the tax registration is an offence. Fill each slot with something real and checkable, then delete this line.
How it works
Three steps, and money moves only to the trust's account, only against a receipt.
The form records what you picked and how to reach you. Nothing is charged here — this page cannot take money, by design. Parents wanting a place for their kid: come to the ground any evening at five; enrolment happens there, free, face to face.
Within the week, with the account details and receipt mechanics — or, for volunteers, the briefing evening and the ID check every adult on this ground goes through.
The register and kit ledger live in the cupboard and the quarterly sheet. The better audit is the ground at six: count the bibs yourself.
Before you give
Almost certainly not, and we refuse to sell that story to donors or to the kids. A few may go on to district play, and the coaches will help any kid who genuinely can. What every kid gets is the thing the register can prove: five safe, coached, fed-back evenings a week, for years. That is the product.
Volunteers are the seasoning, not the meal. Ninety kids, five evenings a week, through monsoon and exam season, need adults who are paid to be there and trained for it. The wages are fair, printed, and the single best thing your money buys.
Every adult on the ground — paid or volunteer — goes through an ID check and the child-safety briefing, no exceptions and no famous-alumni shortcuts. Sessions are never one adult alone with one child, the girls' hour has women coaches, and parents can stand at the touchline any evening unannounced.
We would not know how to count that and we distrust anyone who claims to. The registers count sessions held, attendance and kits issued — real numbers a visitor can check against a cupboard and a chalkboard. The rest is ninety minutes of football, doing quietly what it has always done.
Only if the 80G cell at the top carries a current number, checkable on the income-tax portal. The office shares the certificate before any transfer; an empty cell means ask first.
The one thing this page asks
One form, one intention. The office replies within the week — nothing is charged or collected here.
You want to help with
Nothing yet — pick a way to give above, or say it in the form.
Three required fields: a name, a way to reply, and which conversation this is. Deliberately absent: any child's name or details — enrolment happens at the ground, face to face, with a guardian, never through a web form. No amount field, no PAN, no payment field — this page records intentions and takes nothing.
Your details go to the trust's office for this one reply. Volunteer ID checks are held in the safety file only. Nothing is sold, no appeal calls, and no child's information is ever anywhere near this form.