Community Interest Company
No. 14816436 · Bootle, Merseyside
No. 14816436 · Bootle, Merseyside
Programme notes · August 2026
If you want more people playing golf, you don't start at the golf club. You start where the children already are.
We run golf programmes in schools across Merseyside and Cheshire. For most of the children we work with, it's the first time they've held a club.
Six weeks, delivered in school. We start indoors, in the hall, because that's the space schools have — and because it takes the intimidation out of it. No dress code, no green fees, nobody watching. Just a club, a ball, and someone showing you what to do with them.
The six weeks aren't a taster session. They're structured — grip, contact, control, then actually playing — because one afternoon of novelty doesn't turn anyone into a golfer.
Then, where the school has the space, we move outdoors. Onto the field, or out to a driving range. That step matters more than it sounds. Hitting a ball properly in a hall is one thing; watching it fly is what makes a child want to do it again.
One of our most successful programmes: a full run of sessions with real progression through the six weeks, and pupils who kept turning up.
Our longest-standing school partnership is with Bank View, a special educational needs school. We've been running there for years, and it's some of the work we're most proud of. The sessions are the highlight of a lot of weeks, and the coaching adapts to whoever is in front of us rather than the other way round.
Golf is unusually good at this. It can be adapted almost infinitely — distance, equipment, target, format — without ever stopping being golf.
We also run one and two-day sessions for schools and organisations running summer provision. Six weeks of school holiday is a long time to fill, and golf is something most of these children have never been offered. Our most recent was at Park Brow, and a good number left saying they wanted to take it up properly.
That's the whole measure of whether this works.
Golf has a genuine access problem — cost, kit, dress codes, and the sense that it isn't for you. We can't fix all of that. But we can turn up at a school with clubs and let a room full of children find out whether they like it.
Forever Together CIC is a not-for-profit. Income from coaching goes back into sessions, and the asset lock means it can't go anywhere else.
If you're at a school, sports hall or community group in the Northwest and want a golf programme, we'd like to hear from you.