all about barca: Maret 2011

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Agreement FCB-UNESCO

We seek to raise awareness of the role of education and sport in the development and welfare of young people.

The five-year agreement implies no fixed financial contribution but rather a commitment by the two organisations to develop activities.

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Partnership FC Barcelona and Unicef

This agreement will last for five years and involves a financial contribution of 1.5 million euros a year for integral projects selected by the Foundation and UNICEF to benefit vulnerable children.

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Words and the Arts

Sport is part of culture. Hence an organisation such as FC Barcelona and its Foundation cannot stand aside from cultural progress.

The Foundation takes part in and drives programmes geared towards fostering culture in the widest sense of the term, as it is a fundamental element in quality of life and social cohesion, in people’s happiness and in the quality of coexistence.

The programme to promote reading called “Lletres al Camp” (Camp Nou & Literature) and the Vázquez Montalbán International Journalism Award are the expression of this commitment.

Social care and Cohesion

Sport teaches us solidarity, team working and the understanding that we should not leave any of our comrades behind. This of course is also applicable to society.

The respect, comradeship, fairness and justice which we learn to value in sport are incompatible with discrimination or disparagement of others for being different.

Off the playing field our team is our family, work or school mates, neighbours, our countrymen and the whole of humanity. That is the team we always play for, even when we are doing sport.

Thus cohesion programmes for immigrants such as the “ Tots Colors” (All Colours) sports tournament are designed to combat attitudes and actions which are reticent about or openly opposed to cultural and ethnic diversity.

In addition initiatives such as “ Un somni per un regal” (A dream as a gift) enable sportspeople from the various FCB sections and club members to give their support for children who are ill or socially marginalised by donating toys and handing them out in hospitals.

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Sportsmanship

The Foundation’s Sporting Spirit Programmes are designed to spread sports activities which are more demanding in terms of the moral education of young sportspeople and hence increasingly efficient as a means of positive socialisation.

The first programme is entitled “Fem equip, fem ciutat” (Let’s play as a team, let’s live togheter), a model for the management of civic values and awareness activities in municipal sports clubs.

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Education

With its Education and Sportmanship programmes the FC Barcelona Foundation fosters educational sports activities and brings the message of sport to the world of education.

It would be hard to find a sphere in which civic values are better exemplified than in sport. As a microcosm of society, values such as effort and perseverance, humility, courtesy and respect, a sense of fairness and honesty, comradeship, team working, responsibility and commitment to collective goals are reproduced in sport in an exceptionally clear way.

Educational Programmes

juga_la-eng The Foundation’s Educational Programmes are instruments which provide the educational system, teachers, families and free-time educators with sports-based educational tools which have enormous teaching potential.

The first of these programmes is an online resource called “Juga-la!” (Play It!) in Catalonia and “¡Juégala!” in Latin America and Spain.

FC Barcelona Foundation

Patronage

Mr. Sandro Rosell i Feliu

President
Mr. Ramon Pont i Amenós

1st Vice President and FC Barcelona Board Member
Mr. Gabriel Masfurroll i Lacambra

Vice President
Mr. Ramon Canela i Piqué

Vice President
Mrs. Lola Bou i Camps

Vice President
Mr. Ramon Palou i Godall

Vice President
Mr. Xavier Aguilar i Huguet

Board Member
Mr. Ramon Alfonseda i Pous

Board Member
Mr. Carles Barnils i Vila

Board Member
Mr. Jordi Bellmunt i Fernández

Board Member
Mr. Joan Mas i Brillas

Board Member
Illustrious Mr. Mohammed Chaib Akhdim

Board Member
Mrs. Marta Rodríguez de Llauder Santomá

Board Member
Mr. Ramon Garriga i Saperas

Board Member
Mr. Sergi González i Delgado

Board Member and secretary
Mr. Antonio Llarden i Carratalá

Board Member
Mrs. Rosa Maria Lleal i Tost

Board Member
Exm. Mr. Josep Maldonado i Gili

Board Member
Mr. Josep Maria Prat i Puig

Board Member
Mr. Enric Roca i Mateo

Board Member
Exm. Sr. Manel Royes i Vila

Board Member
Mr. Antoni Tombas i Navarro

Board Member
Mr. Joaquim Triadú i Vila-Abadal

Board Member
Exm. Mr. Iñaki Urdangarín Liebaert

Board Member

Fundació FC Barcelona

Mission and objectives

Mission

From the season 2010-11, the FC Barcelona Foundation begins a new chapter in its history. This is the outline of our new project which brings together new challenges and a variety of new approaches.

-Sport as focal point
-Promoting Catalonia via Barça
-Chidlren and young people as main beneficiaries
- Promoting values and education

Plan of action:

- Bringing members closer to the club, in terms of activities and communication

- Transparency in management, both on an economic and technical level

- Supporting the strategic plans of the club

- Exploring new areas of financing

- Willingness to lead or co lead projects with counterparts with greater experience and knowledge

History

Since it was constituted in 1994, the Fundació FC Barcelona has been an eternal source of civilian participation through the numerous social, cultural and sporting activities that the club has organised, and which reflect the advanced society in which the club is located and the way that the Foundation is such an ideal vehicle for promoting them.

In 2006 FC Barcelona joined the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and donated of 0.7% of the club’s ordinary income to the Foundation to support its programmes and projects. This has led to the strengthening of our early alliances with Unicef, UNESCO and UNHCR/ACNUR, and was culminated with Futbol Club Barcelona being awarded a position as a member of the ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council of the United Nations).