Sported achieves amazing outcomes in partnership with individuals, organisations and government, all of whom share our mission to use to power of sport to improve lives and to build stronger communities.
Whether you are a company looking at Corporate and Social Responsibility (CSR), employee engagement or sponsorship opportunities, a Trust, Foundation or public sector body looking for ways to achieve your aims, or an individual looking for philanthropic ventures, we can work with you to design and deliver a programme to meet your needs and to achieve genuine social change through an effective investment.
Why Partner with Sported?
- Scale and breadth – we work with 5,000 grassroots sports clubs in every corner of the UK, delivering 90 different sports, to almost one million young people annually. So we can build programmes by geography, by beneficiary group, or by desired outcome.
- Reaching the hard-to-reach – Sported doesn’t believe anyone should be “unreachable”. We use sport as a tool to open doors. We deliver national programmes with hyper-local reach into our communities, supporting off–radar groups who often miss out on funding and support.
- Our programmes focus on sustainability and cultural change through grassroots sport – your investment will create a legacy for the future as well as having a significant impact in the present.
- Collaborative programme design – to meet your needs as well as those of beneficiaries, with as much or little involvement as you like, with an award-winning grant distribution mechanism that gets the right funds to the right places at the right times with the right checks and balances in place.
- Build internal pride – through fun and meaningful employee engagement opportunities, from hands-on volunteering to fundraising.
- Enhance external reputation through positive PR – including co-branding opportunities and media promotion of powerful impact data and stories.
If you are interested in becoming part of our amazing portfolio of partnerships with big social and economic impact, email Matt York at m.york@sported.org.uk
Partnerships that deliver
We have developed a number of specific programmes to help community organisations with dedicated partners. These initiative build the resilience of local groups and effectiveness in strengthening communities and transforming lives.
These include:
Barclays – Distributing targeted funding pots and community involvement to create significant positive change among under-represented parts of our society. The access and deep impact grant pots address both immediate needs for football activities and contribute to the long-term development goals for community club promoting inclusivity through sport.
P&G – Delivering 10 grants of £1,000 for Sported groups across the UK and one separately in Ireland, supporting their everyday activities through unrestricted funding. This was engineered by in-store activities in Superdrug and Morrison’s stores with Sported branding on P&G products as part of their Olympic activation.
Go! London – Providing capacity building support to 119 successful grantees from four funding rounds.
Moondance – Injecting capacity building support to groups in Wales, making them investment-ready. Growing the network and volunteer workforce.
Active Partnership work – Working with 11 Active Partnerships to support over 60 community groups to develop action plans to support their club growth and build resilience.
Table Tennis England – Conducting research on barriers to participation for ethnically-diverse groups, to enable them to better shape their programmes and activities for non-competitive settings and how to improve the pathways into competition. Creating an offer for all affiliated clubs.
Rugby Football Union – Developing a training module for RFU on community engagement to improve English rugby clubs links.