Skip to main content
A crowd in the bleachers at the KUTH Soccer Fiesta, Festac Town
Events & programme calendar

Events and Programme Calendar

KUTH Foundation publishes its approved programme calendar, planning dates, beneficiary assumptions and related budget allocations. Where a date, location or target is not yet confirmed, we say so.

Current programme cycle

KUTH 15: Advancing Hope, Dignity & Opportunity

This calendar presents the Board-approved working schedule for the KUTH Foundation 2026 to 2027 programme. Activities remain subject to designated funding, programme readiness, venue availability, verification and operational approval.

Approved working calendar

2026 to 2027 Programme Calendar

These are Board-approved planning dates. Publication of a programme date does not mean that the activity is already funded. Dates and venues may be adjusted where funding, partner, venue or operational-readiness requirements make this necessary.

Widows' Recognition and Appreciation

Approved planning dates
Widows' Recognition: 10 October 2026
Widows' Appreciation: 13 February 2027
Location
Location to be confirmed
Beneficiary basis
Two planned events structured around approximately 100 widows.
Related approved allocation
₦18,575,000

Implementation remains subject to designated funding, beneficiary verification and operational readiness.

Medical Outreach

Approved planning date
14 November 2026
Location
Location to be confirmed
Beneficiary basis
Planned capacity of up to 500 participants.
Related approved allocation
₦14,232,500

Implementation remains subject to designated funding, qualified clinical leadership, approved medical arrangements and operational readiness.

KUTH Soccer Fiesta Season 4

Approved planning dates
Season 4 Draw: 29 November 2026
Tournament Window: 5 to 19 December 2026
Grand Final: 19 December 2026
Location
Location to be confirmed
Beneficiary basis
Planning target of 32 teams and 29 matches.
Related approved allocation
₦78,535,000

Allocation includes ₦17,625,000 in targeted in-kind support.

Implementation remains subject to designated cash and in-kind support, venue readiness and final operational approval.

KUTH 15th Anniversary and History Exhibition

Approved planning date
16 December 2026
Location
Location to be confirmed
Beneficiary basis
An institutional milestone and history programme. It is not presented as a beneficiary-count intervention.
Related approved allocation
₦7,700,000

Implementation remains subject to designated funding, venue arrangements and operational readiness.

Education Programme

Approved planning date
Education Programme Launch, 15 January 2027
Location
Location to be confirmed
Beneficiary basis
Beneficiary target to be confirmed after participating schools, eligible students and programme components have been verified.
Related approved allocation
₦28,340,000

Education activities may include SS3 examination support, debate, essay, career counselling and related learning interventions. Final delivery remains subject to eligibility, verification and designated funding.

Secondary, Tertiary and Vocational Scholarships

Approved planning dates
Scholarship Announcement: 19 December 2026
First Scholarship Awards: 27 February 2027
Location
Location to be confirmed
Beneficiary basis
Number of awards to be confirmed after eligibility assessment, verification and confirmation of designated funding.
Related approved allocation
₦21,470,000

Scholarship announcements do not create an automatic entitlement. Every award remains subject to KUTH's eligibility, verification, approval and funding procedures.

Institutional Readiness and Shared Operations

An approved allocation of ₦26,839,000 supports the governance, staffing, systems, logistics, documentation and operational capacity required across the programme cycle. This is a programme-wide enabling allocation and is not presented as a separate public event.

Figures shown are approved programme-level planning allocations, not funds already received and not separate costs for every milestone listed within a programme. Where several dates fall under one programme, the allocation must not be counted more than once.

Historical record

Past Programmes and Events

The record below documents KUTH Foundation's completed outreaches, with verified dates, locations, beneficiary figures and photographs. It is distinct from the 2026 to 2027 working calendar above.

23 documented events · 2011–2024
Where it began

2011 — the two events that set the model

A KUTH volunteer in a 'Keep Up The Hope' polo addresses a hall of secondary students with hands raised at MYP 2011.
The KUTH Foundation team in branded polos and caps at an MYP 2011 school outreach in Lagos.
MYP 2011 students in uniform holding copies of the KUTH News newsletter after a school session.
Youth programmes
2011 · Lagos State secondary schools

MYP 2011 — Maximizing Your Potentials

The intervention that proved the model. Students were taken through seven social vices — cultism, drug abuse, examination malpractice among them — with mentoring follow-up in each school.

Students engaged500+
Vices addressed7
SchoolsLagos State
View gallery & story
Collage from the maiden KUTH Soccer Fiesta, 2011
Match action at the KUTH Soccer Fiesta, 2011
Trophy presentation at the KUTH Soccer Fiesta, 2011
Sport · Youth empowerment
8 October 2011 · FHA Field, 23 Road, Festac Town

KUTH Soccer Fiesta — Season 1 (Maiden Edition)

Sixteen teams in the inaugural grassroots tournament, won by 5th Avenue FC. Live music, comedy and mentorship sessions ran alongside the matches, turning a football weekend into a youth intervention.

Teams16
Winner's prize₦500,000
Winner5th Avenue FC
View gallery & story
Guests on the red carpet at the 2012 KUTH launch
A performance at the 2012 KUTH launch
The host at the 2012 KUTH launch
The Civic Centre launch venue, Victoria Island
The cross-sector audience at the 2012 launch
Performers at the 2012 KUTH launch
The founder applauded at the 2012 launch

Official launch & dinner, Civic Centre, Victoria Island — 2012. Five inaugural programmes announced the same night.

2012Building the foundation5 events
The official 2012 KUTH launch and dinner

Official Launch & Dinner

Civic Centre, Victoria Island. Cross-sector audience; five inaugural programmes unveiled in one night.

Victoria IslandView record
KUTH's first systematic prison outreach, 2012

Prison Outreach begins

First systematic visits to Lagos correctional facilities — welfare items, rights education and case listening.

A KUTH visit to the Modupe Cole Memorial Home

Orphanage Visitation

The Modupe Cole Memorial Home visit that would become an annual fixture on the KUTH calendar.

Annual since 2012View record
2013Expanding reach3 events
A KUTH volunteer greeting a patient at his hospital bedside during a medical outreach

Medical Outreach — Etsako West, Edo

Five days of free treatment and screening in Irekpai and surrounding villages: 700+ patients seen.

700+ patientsView record
KUTH exam-sponsorship outreach for prison inmates

Back-to-School for Inmates

GCE and JAMB forms sponsored for 100+ inmates, with study materials and exam supervision arranged.

100+ inmatesView record
A large crowd at the KUTH Soccer Fiesta Season 2, 2013

Soccer Fiesta — Season 2

The tournament's biggest crowd yet, with headline entertainment and expanded mentorship sessions.

Festac TownView record
2019Community & sport3 events
A children's outreach in the Makoko waterfront community, 2019

Makoko Children's Day Outreach

Feeding and gifting children in the Makoko waterfront community, with volunteers from three partner groups.

Makoko, LagosView record
Students at the KUTH Back-to-School pilot, 2019

Back-to-School Pilot

25 indigent students received free GCE forms, study materials and scholarship incentives.

25 studentsView record
A team at the 3rd KUTH Soccer Fiesta, 2019

Soccer Fiesta — Season 3

32 teams in an Under-22 knockout at Festac Town — the largest edition of the tournament to date.

32 teamsView record
2023Community impact4 events
Widows receiving welfare packs at a KUTH Christmas distribution, 2023

Christmas Widows Distribution

Food packs and cash support delivered to widows across Lagos in the December distribution cycle.

A widows' gathering and counselling session, 2023

Widows Gathering & Counselling

A full-day gathering combining welfare distribution with counselling and cooperative registration.

A Children's Day visit to the Modupe Cole Memorial Home, 2023

Children's Day — Modupe Cole

The annual home visit, with nutrition support, gifts and recreation for residents and caregivers.

Modupe Cole HomeView record
Full archive

Every documented outreach, 2011–2024

2024Continuing the Mission — welfare & mentoring cycleLagosView record
2023Stop Stigmatization campaign (AVAHA)LagosView record
2018Back-to-School GCE Project, Frankkids ParkFestac, LagosView record
2015Prisons legal representation & bail assistanceLagosView record
2015KUTH Micro-Scheme (MSU) established — VSLAsLagos & EdoView record
2014Essay Writing Contest, Lagos secondary schoolsLagos StateView record
2012–25Widows & Elderly Visitation — recurring programmeLagosView record
2012–25Orphanage Visitation — recurring programmeLagosView record

2025 carried no programme activity: funding was unavailable and the year was used to reposition the Foundation and plan the 2026–2027 cycle.

Bring an event back

Three ways to put a date on the calendar

Every planned outreach is costed. Sponsorship converts a plan into a dated, photographed, publicly reported event record.

Sponsor

Fund a single outreach

Underwrite one listed event end-to-end — branding at venue, named recognition in the published record and the post-event report.

From ₦2.5m
Per outreach
Partner

Co-host with your team

Bring staff volunteers, in-kind goods or clinical personnel. We handle logistics, beneficiary verification and reporting.

In-kind
Goods, services or people
Grant

Fund a programme year

Support a full programme line across the 2026–2027 cycle, with quarterly reporting against the approved master plan.

Multi-event
Annual commitment

Sponsorship deck, budget breakdown and past event reports available on request.

Partner with KUTH

Partner on an Approved Programme

Organisations can support an approved programme through grants, sponsorship, verified in-kind resources, technical expertise or implementation collaboration.