Ovejas · Colombia

More than a game.

Funamos is a community-led football organisation using sport, education and culture to build belonging, opportunity and a stronger future from Ovejas.

They did not wait for somebody else to build it.

Funamos was founded in Ovejas in November 2017, when families turned a rubbish dump into a football pitch with their own hands.

Ovejas sits in the Montes de María, a region that lived through decades of armed conflict. For a lot of kids here, the pull of the street, drugs and violence is real, sometimes on the doorstep, sometimes closer than that.

Funamos is the safe place in between. A pitch where they're expected every afternoon. Coaches who notice when someone's missing. Parents on the sideline. What gets trained here is discipline, respect, pride and a sense of who they can become.

And it's working. Kids who grew up on that pitch are now its coaches: a first job, and living proof to the little ones of where it can lead.

The ball is the excuse. Community is the point.

The football is just the reason they turn up. What gets built is families who show up for each other, and kids who know someone's looking out for them.

Come and play →

Juanca + Mónica

Meet the dream team. Juanca + Mónica.

Juanca runs the pitch: coach, mentor and the heart of Funamos since he co-founded it in 2017.

Mónica runs the screen: she's part of the School of Elevation, excelling in digital skills, and she's how the world gets to watch Funamos play.

Between them, the whole club's covered.

Liga de Fútbol de Sucre

Football history. Made in Ovejas.

2017
Founded in Ovejas, on a rubbish dump families turned into a football pitch.
2024
Runners-up in Sucre's departmental tournament. A community club built from nothing.
2026
The first community club from Ovejas ever to join the Liga de Fútbol de Sucre.
Next
A sports centre of their own, in Ovejas.
Their big vision →

Official fixtures. Registered players. Scouts who can finally see them play. And it was the families who got them there, selling solidarity bonds door to door, one small bond at a time.

Their big vision. A sports centre of their own.

Funamos has the talent, the families and the plan. What one town can't do alone is reach the world, and that's where we come in. We amplify: their story to new audiences, their products to buyers worldwide, their pitch to families who'll travel to play on it.

Raffles and solidarity bonds only go so far in a town the size of Ovejas. New income streams have no ceiling. They're how Funamos secures its place in the league, and one day builds a sports centre of its own.

Funamos leads. We turn up the volume.

Get involved

Your part in their story.

Every way in builds Funamos’s own income.

The best gift ever. A football each.

Ask any kid: nothing beats a brand-new ball. On 30 December, all 105 Funamos players get their own. Give one for £20, or sponsor 35 or all 105 and put your company's name on them. Sponsorship closes 1 December.

Give a football · £20 →Sponsor the balls →

Shop their collection.

Gifts of Elevation: footballs, kit, laptops (and a few chickens). Each one covers a real cost, so Funamos can spend its energy on the kids, not on fundraising. Put someone's name on the card and the real thing goes to Funamos. Grab it outright or chip in from £10.

See the collection →