The funding from the Football Foundation, the Metropolitan Police and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport will pay for more than 100 of the projects to be set up across England.
Kickz works with Premier League and Football League clubs to run activities on week nights. The initiative was launched in April 2006 with four clubs and extended to a further 21 later in the year with £1m of government funding.
It will now be run with every Premier League and Football League club in London, and three more clubs from outside the capital: Aston Villa, Sheffield United, and Reading. The eventual aim is to make the scheme England-wide.
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