Aims & Objectives
The George Best Foundation was set up to provide charitable funds for research into liver disease and alcoholism as well as supporting the promotion of a healthy lifestyle among young people through participation in soccer.
The Foundation was established to promote general charitable purposes for the benefit of the public in Northern Ireland and abroad and for the benefit of the Foundation for Liver Research without distinction of ethnic identity, age, gender, sexual orientation, nationality political or religious opinion.
The Foundation's aims and objectives include:
- To protect and preserve health by providing or assisting in providing medical and research equipment in support of the work of the Foundation for Liver Research and other universities and research areas.
- To help advance education by the provision and advice and promotion of public awareness about liver disease and the effects of alcohol for the benefit of the public.
- To help the promotion of community participation in healthy recreation by the provision of facilities for a football school open to members of the general public in the areas of benefit aged 5-15.
- To help advance education in the areas of benefit through the provision of facilities and the promotion of football as a recreational activity so as to develop the physical fitness, mental and emotional capacities of young people aged 5-15.
Patrons: Professor Roger Williams, Mr Richard Best International Patron: Mr George Costacos President: Mr Eamonn Holmes Company Secretary: Barbara McNarry
Board members: Mr Terence Brannigan, Mr Norman McNarry, Mr Bill Wolsey, Mr John Keane, Mr Brendan McGinn, Mr Jim Boyce.
