Streetgames Secures £3.5m Funding
National sports charity StreetGames has announced it has secured a further £3.5m in funding from Sport England for 2017/18.
The Doorstep Sport Club programme launched with investment from Sport England in 2013 and the programme has supported 100,000 young people to participate in 1,000 new youth sports clubs, across 310 community organisations or local authorities across England.
The work will be targeted in areas where some of the 3.9 million children and young people from lower socio-economic groups live and where physical activity can also have a significant social impact. According to StreetGames, young people from these communities are half as likely to play sport regularly, compared to their more affluent peers.
Jane Ashworth, CEO of StreetGames, said: “We want to make sure that when young people take part in sport or physical activity, they don’t just turn up once but keep coming back week after week. Our ambition is to help young people develop a resilient sporting habit for life that has a wider beneficial impact on their lives. We’re delighted Sport England has continued to back the expansion of our work.”
Phil Smith, Sport England’s director of sport, said: “Over the last decade, StreetGames has proven that it has a deep understanding of its customer base and its unique approach which delivers real change in communities. Their work fits very well with our new strategy, which is about understanding the customer’s needs and investing where it’s most needed.”
