I’m Kate, founder of Rounded.  The idea came when I was wrapping yet another football up as a present for my children’s friends – I always struggled to find affordable footballs that were stylish, fun or unique and always found them hard to disguise when wrapping!

I realised there was a gap in the market for design led footballs that would appeal to the footballers unique personality and ones that they would love to show off in the playground and on the pitch. 

 Also, there was a need to offer the option for a gift box to make the gifting experience just that little bit easier!

When designing I had the idea that the box could also solve
another problem, storage for the balls.  The gift box has been created so that it can then be used as stackable storage and would look good in any room – not just the garage.

The designs will be such that they appeal to both girls and boys however our real mission is, through Rounded to help support the growth of girls football.

It’s something I’m quite passionate about -many years ago having been that girlin the playground not being allowed to kick a ball around with the boys. I appreciate girls football has come a long way since then but I still feel that the opportunity and inclusivity for girls could improve from the grassroots level.  

We are lucky locally to have a girls football club which is fantastic but
numbers are still low and often not enough players available to get matches together.  The more we can do to encourage girls to get out and play at the grassroots level the better.  
My aim is that in every playground, football is for all and not predominately for the boys.

Obviously as a start up the funds are limited, but we pledge that as we grow more and more of the profits will be put back into girls grassroots football.

Thanks for supporting us in our mission. 

We hope you all love our balls!