Building Better Footballers.Developing Better People.
About Us
Kingdom Heritage Academy exists to provide exceptional football coaching that develops technical excellence, confidence and character. Every child is coached with purpose, encouraged to grow and welcomed into a community where football and Christian values work hand in hand.
Our Mission
Kingdom Heritage Academy exists to develop children's God-given gifts with excellence, and to build character worth carrying into adult life — in a place where Christ is at the centre.
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We started with a simple conviction: that worship isn't limited to a Sunday. We worship by giving God our best, and football is no different. So we coach properly and we coach diligently, because doing a thing well is itself an act of honour to the one who gave the gift.
Every child who comes to us has been blessed with gifts. Our job is to develop them — and to teach them to use them well: to be honest, to encourage, to handle winning and losing with grace, and to look after the person next to them.
We are open about who we are, and every family is genuinely welcome here, whatever they believe. Coming to Kingdom Heritage means joining in with who we are: we pray together as part of our sessions, and we ask every child and every family to take part in that and to respect what we do. What they will find is coaches who know their name, football taught properly, and adults who take the responsibility of raising them seriously.
Why We Started
Kingdom Heritage began on a walk.
I was coaching children, and looking into buying a franchise — building something proper, running it as a business. And every week, on the walk to the venue, I'd find myself praying for the children I was about to coach and for their families. Not because anything was wrong, but that God would bless them, protect them, and extend his love to every one of them.
Then I'd arrive, and it would stop. I couldn't pray there. Whatever I'd been carrying on that walk had to be left at the door.
And God revealed to me that this was the wrong way round. The praying shouldn't be the thing I did on the way — it should be the thing the whole place is built on, with him at the centre of it. And that was never going to be possible in the format I was about to franchise.
So I didn't. This is what I did instead. A place where I can pray for and with the children I coach. A place where children are coached properly, where their gifts are developed diligently, and where the adults around them are trying to give God their best.
Joel Knuckles, Founder