Last week, the Premier League 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 are starting on 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, makes a impact on the lives of young people.
Arya, Southampton
Since it began in 2017, Premier League Primary Stars has supported and inspired thousands of pupils in the classroom, playground and on the sports field.
Arya is one of those young people.
Normally a happy and bubbly youngster, last year Arya developed significant anxiety about attending school.
"She was screaming and crying, going into the class and clinging on to us," says Arya's dad Mike. "It was very difficult be able to leave her physically and emotionally.
"Seeing her go through like that kind of trauma is awful as a parent."
To help address that anxiety, Arya was referred to Saints Foundation, the charitable arm of Southampton FC, and the Premier League Primary Stars programme.
As part of Premier League Primary Stars, she teamed up with Saints Foundation primary school project officer Rebekah Tonks on a one-to-one mentoring programme to boost Arya's self-esteem, confidence and engagement with learning.
"Every week she got more confident as each session went on," says Rebekah. "Despite how she presents herself as being quite shy and quiet, by week eight she was bubbly, loud, enthusiastic.
"It was brilliant to see the progress and just how much impact it had in that short amount of time."
The connection Arya made with Rebekah gave her something to look forward to every week.
And in a short period of time, Arya was able to rediscover her love of school.
"The transformation of Arya being quite nervous and anxious about coming into school, really building that connection with Miss Tonks and actually being confident enough to leave mum at the school gate... to see that, it's putting goosebumps on my skin just being able to talk about it," says Rob Pearce, Saints Foundation head of project operations.
Arya's St Patrick's Catholic Primary School in Southampton is just one of more than 19,000 primary schools in England and Wales that have engaged with Premier League Primary Stars over the last eight years.
And for Sports and PE leader Mel Alexander, being able to deliver the programme has been a massive plus for the school.
"The impact has been huge for us," she says. "It's allowed children to become more interested in sport. The uptake of clubs has been more, just because they are more confident with their sport.
"The emotional needs of the children are being met as well through the interventions that Miss T gives and that's a wonderful thing."
What is Premier League Primary Stars?
Premier League Primary Stars is the Premier League's primary school education programme, using the appeal of football to support children to be active and develop essential life skills. It is available to every primary school in England and Wales. More than 1.3million school sessions and events have already been delivered.
Funded by the Premier League, through the Premier League Charitable Fund, the programme has enabled over 68,000 teachers to use resources for English, PSHE, PE and Maths, to help children to be active and develop essential life skills. There are 650+ free resources available.
More than 100 professional football club charities from the National League to the Premier League run in-classroom Premier League Primary Stars sessions in local schools, with over 18m attendances by primary school pupils.
To find out more about delivering the programme in your school, please visit plprimarystars.com.