International Development/Magic Bus

The Premier League's international development strategy was launched by Prime Minister Gordon Brown last January in Mumbai, India.

The then Chancellor spoke at the announcement of the first of the Premier League's international projects - a three year partnership between the Premier League and Magic Bus, a Mumbai based sports development charity.

outdoor adventure

Magic Bus is an Indian sport for development organisation, addressing some of the world's greatest challenges of poverty and disempowerment, by promoting personal and social education through sport and outdoor adventure. Every week thousands of girls and boys, living in some of the most deprived and marginalised circumstances in the Mumbai, attend the Magic Bus sessions and a growing team of youth and former recipients of the programme mentor the children through their childhood.

The organisation currently works with 4,000 children and delivers weekly sports sessions close to the children's homes and residential camps at the Magic Bus Centre for Learning & Development, two hours outside Mumbai.

For more information about Magic Bus go to www.magicbusindia.org.