About Us

The Story So Far

In 2013 Celeb FC played in 6 matches and secured sponsorship for the kit thanks to TeamstatsCeleb FC played in the Football Supporters World Cup at the London Soccer Dome in November 2013, led by Gordon Boateng and contributed to over £25000 being raised for Small UK Charities throughout the year.

In 2014, we played 11 games (with many more requests to play, but without funding, we were limited). Karin, Gordon and the players spoke on The Football Talk Show for Harlow Radio numerous times and also on Sky TV at The Chrissy B Show (Sky Channel 203).

Some players were on National TV as part of The Voice. BigBrovaz appeared on Channel 4 & were on stage at various Festivals where Celeb FC were invited as guests. We contributed to raising circa £35000 during this year.

2015 saw a number of games played in our new strip, thanks to new Kit Sponsors – Patriot Sports. Charities supported in this year included Help for HeroesProstate Cancer UK, The Jude Brady Foundation, & others, we contributed to circa £25000 being raised.

2016 saw 8 matches played, contributing to just over £25000 being raised, along with new fundraising routes being taken – The teammates and charities appearing on Podcasts & TV (Fan TV on Sky Channel 212, Clare Meets on Youtube & The Only Way is Linda On V3 TV) – All to add awareness raising avenues for the charities we help. There was also a great Christmas Charity event in Derby in November for the SSSN Charity.

2017 was welcomed with a team photo-shoot at new sponsors CREAMS in London. We not only attended Charity Football events, but Golf & Cricket along with Galas. April saw the generosity of one of the Celeb FC team increase a small Essex Charity fundraising capability by over £10,000. With 8 Football Matches Played, Including for The Jude Brady Foundation, The AKO Autism Charity  2 Charity Balls & a Charity Cricket event we contributed to raising over £95,000 in 2017.

2018 saw in a new main sponsor www.Good2Bid.co.uk . We attended Charity Football matches, Charity Golf Games & Gala’s all supporting small UK Charities. Celeb FC Founder Karin also became a member of the committees of some amazing small Charities – The South West Thames Kidney Fund, St Helier Music & Community Festival, Rose Hill Community Group, Care Campaign for The Vulnerable & Sutton Night Watch.  We contributed to raising  circa £55,000 in 2018.

2019 saw Celeb FC supporting many kinds of events including community days such as the St Helier Community Festival & the Rose Hill Christmas Market , a number of charity gala evenings & of course fundraising football matches. We had a new Kit Sponsor – Chandlers Building Supplies & a new Medical bag sponsor Wimblederm. We also resurrected our amazing #Teamlookalikes (last seen at the Tesco tournament in 2017) played at a huge stadium (Millwall) & on a number of small community grounds…Every single match mattered no matter where or when it was! We contributed to raising circa £50,000 in 2019.

2020 was a difficult year for anyone involved in fundraising & we unfortunately couldn’t play any fundraising football events nor appear at any charity events. Sadly 3 Gala’s, 6 Matches, a Golf day, a community festival, a fundraising concert & a fun run for 10 charities had to be cancelled. BUT we did of course continue to support many community & charity groups in other ways – from Mrs Brown of Teamlookalikes reading bedtime stories  (Raising just over £2000) to the Celeb FC teammates providing prizes for entrants of competitions which were raising funds for small charities. We have done whatever we can to support people in new, inventive ways,

2021 – With new sponsors secured, including Icon Kitchen Designs, Life force Support, Macca Sports & Vestey Foods UK, along with existing, long-term support from Wimblederm, 1v1 Footballs, Taylored Events and Eco Balloons, Steve OSullivan Photography and of course Rocoja,  we are feeling extremely positive about the 2021-22 season. We have events in the pipeline, supporting communities & groups that really need all the help they can get right now!

2022 saw Celeb FC win another award – “Most Charitable Sporting Events 2022” & also support another 5 Football events and 3 Galas. We had sponsors back on board including Icon Kitchen Design, Go To Build, Wimblederm and Rocoja and new Photographer after our Steve moved home – Taur Everard – 2022 saw us support just under £25,000 of fundraising. We also supported 4 huge community projects in the Surrey area, involving over 100 Charities/ Community groups.

For 2023 we kept sponsors Icon Kitchen Design, Go To Build, Wimblederm, Rocoja  and  Photographer Taur Everard – The year saw play in 6 fundraising matches, contributing to just under £30,000 raised.  Our 10 year Anniversary Gala which was due to take place in thE September was moved to January 2024.

About the Charity Football Celeb FC Founder

Karin Flower

Born in South London & living there her whole life, Karin developed a love of the beautiful game in her childhood. Sadly in the 70s girls were not allowed to play & as she was NOT into any of the usual girl sports of the era she quickly became a bookworm. Now many years later, after having an eclectic career in Car Auctions, Recruitment, Newspapers & Event management whilst bringing up children, she has brought her love for football (an avid Liverpool Fan of almost 3 decades) & her passion for fundraising & events together.

Karin currently runs Celeb FC from home, doing as much as she can whilst battling her own health problems. She is however a glass-half-full (Sadly now, thats usually just a coffee) kinda girl.

Karin is supported in the run-up & at every event by her daughters Jade, Courtney & Roxanne. Although you may not see them, because if the event needs mascots/characters for children to play with – Yep you guessed it, That’s where they will be.

Karin is very proud to have been awarded the Chris Donovan Trust Inspirational Woman of the Year Award, the Care Campaign for the Vulnerable, Inspirational Supporter Award and has been nominated for the “Being Co-OP Award 2024” (However she was sadly made redundant from her Co Op role, along with over 600+ fellow Member Pioneers, before the awards were decided upon, so we do not know whether she would have achieved that particular honour. However the nomination was a beautiful one, enthusing about the amazing work Karin achieved in the Sutton, Wallington and Carshalton community in the 4 years she was a Co Op Member Pioneer. Way over and above the 4 hr a week role of Member Pioneer).

Karin is also part of a number of non-profit / community groups, providing operational / event/sponsorship / fundraising / administrative / website support & hopes you will visit them to see what else you can support (if you can) …

KingswoodShetlands.org (2019 – present)

Co Op Charity Member Pioneer (2020-2024)

www.SHMACF.co.uk   (2017 – 2023)

www.CareCampaignForTheVulnerable.com (2017-2021)

www.SuttonNightWatch.com (2018-2022)