Skills Gap

By providing disadvantaged young people with new skills and opportunities, StreetGames helps to create a positive cycle of involvement, attainment, and emulation by younger members of a community.

These key skills can be taught in any number of ways, and tailored to meet the needs of a wide variety of learners. Through Doorstep Sport and the residentials programme, StreetGames’ teaches a whole host of valuable skills – including teamwork, patience and improved self-confidence. The organisation's successful volunteering programme further develops these traits into winning leadership skills – emboldening young people to develop their peers, organise social activities, and speak confidently in large groups.

Through the StreetGames Training Academy, aspiring coaches gain industry-recognised qualifications from sector-leading tutors. These include the latest apprenticeship qualifications – created in consultation with StreetGames – and delivered by tutors in a highly-engaging format. We’ve already helped more than 11,000 coaches to earn their qualifications so far!

Together with Mental Health First Aid we’re also offering the MHFA Youth programme – which empowers coaches to address young participants’ mental health concerns with insight, compassion, and clarity.

Young Volunteers

Sport clubs in the UK are run by all sorts of people. Whether they’re coaching the team, counting the membership forms or making the sandwiches, they all have one thing in common: they’re volunteers. In fact, sports volunteering is the largest single volunteering sector in the UK, with 6.2 million sports volunteers being active each year. Read more

Apprenticeships

StreetGames' industry-leading apprenticeships are a mix of on-the-job, workplace learning and off-site conventional study - typically revolving around youth, community or sports-based coaching techniques. The employer pays the apprentice a wage and in return the government pays for most or all of their training. Read more

What We Do

StreetGames harnesses the power of sport to create positive change in the lives of disadvantaged young people right across the UK. StreetGames' helps to make young people and their communities healthier, safer and more successful.

Our History

StreetGames is one of the UK's leading 'sport for development' charities - changing lives and transforming communities through the power of sport. Formed in 2007, StreetGames was inspired by the success of joint work conducted by The FA, Football Foundation and other agencies working within disadvantaged areas – places in which young people were almost 50% less likely to be active than their more affluent peers.

Finance and Governance

Since its creation in 2007, StreetGames has been an active champion, leading innovator and respected partner in the community sport sector.

Jane Ashworth OBE

CEO

Volunteering

There is a growing trend in the UK for companies to do more than simply give money to good causes. Many employees and employers prefer to be actively involved with corporate community investment, which aims to link employees' skills and time to the donation of resources.