Press statement 26th February 2015 Commenting on today’s NEET statistics, Lekan Ojumu, Sporteducate Programme Manager at Sported said: “What the latest statistics mask is that there are still huge social inequalities in youth unemployment. The fact remains, that if you come from a disadvantaged background, you are much more likely to become NEET. […]
When it comes to exercise and staying active, most people have the best of intentions. You start the week raring to go, but somehow life just gets in the way. You end up having to work late, you miss your train home or that planned early morning run goes out the window as you hit […]
Sported and BT Sport’s The Supporters Club back local football club Blantyre Soccer Academy is set to launch an innovative new scheme that will train young people, aged 16 to 21, who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) to become qualified football referees. The club’s new Refer2Us programme has been launched […]
Ulster Bank’s parent company The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has continued its support of Northern Ireland’s community sport sector by awarding Sport for Development charity, Sported, a Community Grant to expand its work in Northern Ireland. Sported is a free membership organisation that supports local community sport clubs and groups that use sport […]
Leading Sport for Development charity, Sported, is delighted to announce that it is one of 13 voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in Northern Ireland
London 2012 Olympic medallist and Sported ambassador, Dan Purvis, took time out of his busy training schedule for the upcoming Commonwealth Games earlier this month to pay a visit to a local Sported project, Cast North West in Tarleton, Preston.
Inspiring Impact is a UK wide initiative that aims to change the way the voluntary and community sector thinks about
Written by Jo Stocks, Sporteducate In England, if you are pupil receiving free school meals (FSM) you are three-times less likely to achieve five or more A*-C GCSEs, including English and maths, than your non-FSM counterpart. Indeed, deprivation – as measured by free school meal allocation – is strongly associated with poorer […]
Fife Parkour Coaching, a local community group which uses the sport of Parkour (or Freerunning) as a personal development tool to help young people to stay fit and grow in confidence, is celebrating after winning the backing of Sported. Sported has awarded the group a grant of £7,500 to expand their work across the […]
Empire Fighting Chance, a charity that uses boxing to realise the potential of disadvantaged young people across Bristol, has become the latest community sport group to benefit from a joint funding initiative between Sported and The Supporters Club – BT Sport’s charitable initiative that aims to build a better world by bringing people together through […]