The Premier League recently announced an increased commitment to supporting primary and secondary education as part of the League's three-year commitment to supporting local communities.
And as millions of children and young people across England and Wales begin the new school year, we take a look at how two of the programmes that will benefit from this additional funding, Premier League Inspires and Premier League Primary Stars, make a impact on the lives of young people.
Aabid, Burnley
Aabid was always an ambitious student who wanted to do well. However, his attitude and behaviour in class were letting him down.
"School was rough," he says. "The way I used to speak to teachers, it was bad. I wouldn't take it from a teacher if they were telling me off. I'd give it them back, a hundred times worse.
"I had no motivation for anything, to be honest. I didn't want to do anything and I just looked at school as if it was just fun."
At risk of exclusion, Aabid was referred to Premier League Inspires run by Burnley FC in the Community (BitC), one of 54 professional football club charities that deliver the programme.
He started working with Mohammed Asad Aamir, a Premier League Inspires mentor with BitC.
In one-to-one mentoring sessions, they talked, they played football, and Asad soon became a person that Aabid could trust.
"I had a very open approach with him," says Asad. "I explained the situation on what's going on, why he was referred to me. It was mostly the behaviour, very difficult in controlling his anger, controlling his emotions and he was at high risk of getting kicked out of school.
"We did start off first with a one-to-one basis, where we get to know each other first, what our interests were like, just his ambition and goals, what inspires him to do well in school, out of school and his personal development."
Having someone to speak with had a significant different on Aabid's school day and his outlook on learning.
"Asad showed me both paths of right or wrong as well as the outcome of both of them," Aabid says. "It just opened my eyes up a bit.
"If I was having a bad lesson, I'd go to him because we're from the same area and we just got on really well. I could just go to Asad for everything. He was my person in school."
With Aabid's attitude changed, he managed to gain impressive GCSE results and has started to formulate plans for the future.
"If I was to have messed about I wouldn't have done well and I wouldn't have had any aspirations for anything after school," says Aabid.
"Now I see it a lot differently, I want to get into electrical engineering. It's something I've wanted to do since Premier League Inspires came into my life."
And with BitC working across the year groups at Sir John Thursby Community College, Aabid is not the only student to have benfitted from the work of Premier League Inspires.
"It put adults in front of our children who are a little bit more aligned, perhaps with the way that they speak, the way that they operate, in a way that perhaps teachers aren't," says Sir John Thursby headteacher Matt Renshaw.
"The people that come in from Burnley FC in the Community are not wearing a suit, they're wearing the Burnley branded gear and that breaks down those barriers."
What is Premier League Inspires?
Premier League Inspires is the League's secondary school targeted intervention programme and this season it will be delivered by 54 club charities.
Launched in 2019, Premier League Inspires creates life-changing opportunities for young people who may be at risk of not reaching their potential to engage with positive activities, helping them to develop the personal skills and attitudes needed to succeed in life.
Using the power of football, the programme helps to prepare young people for further education and employment through a series of face-to-face mentoring sessions, workshops and social-action projects.
Now in its sixth consecutive year of delivery, Premier League Inspires has engaged more than 40,000 young people aged 11-to-18, supporting them to reach their potential in more than 1,000 education establishments across England and Wales.