Our Youth. Our Plan. Our Football.Organisation
KickStartKenyaFootball is run by a registered company, not a committee, and it says so. This page sets out who decides what, what is actually in place today, what is only proposed, and how to hold us to it. Where a structure does not exist yet, it is marked as proposed rather than dressed up.
Proposed governance framework. Positions marked as proposed or open have not been appointed. Confirmed appointments will be published following the appropriate selection and acceptance process.
Legal entity
Typhoon Sports Group Ltd
Trading as
KickStartKenyaFootball
Company number
15740405
Registered address
192 Clapham High Street, London, England, SW4 7UD
KickStartKenyaFootball is an independent football research, heritage and development platform operated by Typhoon Sports Group Ltd. It is not the governing body of football in Kenya.
Principles
01
Independent, and says so
This platform is not the governing body of football in Kenya and does not speak for it. It is an independent research and development platform operated by a registered company, and every page is written to be checked rather than believed.
02
Published before it is delivered
Costs, land, funding routes and county shortlists are published while they are still proposals, with the assumptions attached. That is deliberate: a plan nobody can inspect is not a plan.
03
Corrections outrank comfort
Anyone can challenge a figure. Accepted corrections are published in a public log with what the page used to say, what it says now and credit to whoever put us right.
04
No money moves without a legal entity
Any project that receives funding does so through a registered entity, with a named accountable person, a bank account in that entity's name and reporting back to whoever funded it.
05
The 18/47 split is a governance rule, not a slogan
Eighteen counties are prioritised for the professional game because the economics support it. All forty-seven are in scope for grassroots. Any decision that quietly narrows that is a governance failure.
Structure
Each layer, what it is responsible for and whether it exists today. Anything marked proposed has nobody in it.
Operating company
The registered legal entity that operates the platform, holds the domain and contracts, and carries statutory responsibility. Company number 15740405, registered in England and Wales.
Accountable to Companies House and its directorsCompanies House record
Executive
Day-to-day direction of the campaign, sign-off on published research, and the point of accountability while the wider structure is still being formed. Currently held by Taiwo Leo Atieno.
Accountable to The operating company's boardTrustee profile
Operational
The people who carry the work on the ground: coaching, county liaison, verification of local facilities and relationships with schools, clubs and county offices.
Accountable to The Founder and TrusteeWho is in post
Advisory
An unpaid council intended to hold the plan to account on football, finance, law, safeguarding and county representation. No member has been appointed and no name should be assumed.
Accountable to Published minutes, once constitutedOpen positions
Local
One accountable local partner per participating county, responsible for land facts, community consent and reporting on any facility built in that county.
Accountable to The Advisory Council and the community the site servesCounty land audit
Ring-fenced
Each funded facility or club project is intended to sit in its own registered Kenyan entity, so its money, land and reporting can be inspected on their own and cannot be cross-subsidised invisibly.
Accountable to Its own investors, partners and the Business Registration ServiceFacility planner
Decision rights
What gets published as fact
Founder and Trustee, on the record
Every data point carries a source, a review date and a method tag. Anything we cannot source is labelled as an estimate or is not published.
Which counties are prioritised
Published model, not preference
The eighteen professional-game counties come out of population, income, existing football activity and land availability. The model and its inputs are on the site, so the ranking can be argued with.
What a facility costs
County-level economic model
Capex, opex and revenue are built from local wages, local rent and local income rather than a national average, then published per county and per facility type.
Whether a project proceeds
Feasibility, land, consent, funding
All four have to be resolved and evidenced. No project is announced as going ahead on the strength of interest alone.
Who we work with
Verifiable record only
Recommended organisations are ones with a public statutory record and direct working experience. Anyone listed can ask to be removed.
Conflicts of interest
Related organisations and relationships that could influence what this platform publishes, and what we do about each one.
FC Nairobi
FC Nairobi is the first major implementation project emerging from this wider vision. It is a separate organisation with its own management.
The platform does not present FC Nairobi as the only route for Kenyan football, and county research is not steered toward it. The relationship is disclosed on the FC Nairobi page.
Verum Inventa Ltd
A separate company, registered in England and Wales, that carries out research and verification work behind data on this platform.
Disclosed on the recommended entities list rather than presented as an independent third-party audit. Sources are published so the underlying data can be checked without it.
Founder as former professional player
The founder appears in the Hall of Fame archive as a Kenyan international.
Inclusion follows the same published criteria as every other player, and the entry is sourced like the rest. The overlap is stated on the profile.
Money
Funding intent
The founder intends to invest in and mobilise the initial funding required to begin delivering the first demonstration projects. Each project remains subject to feasibility, approvals, partnerships, funding and transparent implementation arrangements.
No public appeal
This platform does not run a donation appeal and does not collect public money. Projects are costed and offered to investors, sponsors and partners on published terms.
Ring-fenced projects
Any funded project is intended to run through its own registered Kenyan entity with its own account, so that spend can be traced to the site it was raised for.
Reporting back
Each funded project is expected to publish what was spent, what was built and what it now costs to run, against the model published before it started.
Safeguarding
Any programme carrying the KickStartKenyaFootball name is expected to meet these conditions before a child takes part.
Children come first, structurally
Any programme working with under-18s is expected to have a named safeguarding lead, vetted coaches, a written reporting route and consent from parents or guardians on record before a child takes part.
No child is a promotional asset
Children are not used to raise money on this platform. Images of identifiable minors are only published with documented consent, and never alongside a fundraising ask.
Coaching qualifications are checked, not assumed
Coaches attached to a KickStartKenyaFootball project are expected to hold a recognised CAF or FKF licence appropriate to the age group, and the licence is verified.
Concerns are escalated, not managed internally
A safeguarding concern goes to the safeguarding lead and, where a child may be at risk, to the appropriate Kenyan authorities. It is not resolved quietly to protect a project's reputation.
Data governance
Every figure carries its origin
Data points are labelled with the source, the date it was last reviewed and whether it is measured, modelled or estimated.
Corrections are public
Accepted corrections are logged publicly with the old wording, the new wording and credit to whoever raised it.
Community submissions are reviewed before publication
Contributions from the public and the diaspora are checked, classified and de-duplicated before anything reaches a page. Nothing is published straight from a form.
Personal data stays minimal
We collect only what a submission or a register needs, and personal contact details from submissions are not published.
Honest gaps
The part most organisations leave out. These are the governance commitments we have not yet met.
Accountability
This page last reviewed 2026-06-01. Governance changes are logged in the corrections log.
Open to every county
Land nobody is using, a school field, a county ground, a club that has outgrown its home. File it and we put it to our partners for investment consideration — a successful application earns 1.5% of the funded project value, half on the signed agreement and half on completion.
Official partners
The organisations backing this work. Partnership enquiries are welcome through the contact page.