Tackling Inactivity

It's estimated that physical inactivity costs the UK economy almost £7.5 billion per year, with a whopping 1 in 6 deaths now being linked to long-term inactivity.

As a youth sports and community development charity, StreetGames fully understands the need for greater physical activity, particularly amongst young people.

To achieve this goal, StreetGames employs a wide variety of specialist, trend-setting and research-backed programmes. For more information on each, please follow the links below.

Us Girls

A double award-winning programme, Us Girls is designed to increase and sustain young women’s participation in sport and physical activity within some of the nation’s most disadvantaged communities. Read more

Safe, Fit and Well

Join the programme that’s winning the battle against poor wellbeing - through fun, fitness and sport! StreetGames’ Safe, Fit and Well has already generated a whopping £2,390 of social value for every single participant! It’s even better value for cluster organisations! Read more

Fit and Fed

StreetGames’ innovative Fit and Fed campaign offers fun physical activities and nutritious, healthy meals, to some of society’s most vulnerable young people. Read more

Coca-Cola GB ParkLives with StreetGames

ParkLives with StreetGames provides participants with the opportunity to access parks in their local community through engagement in a variety of sports and physical/ wellbeing activities over a 16 to 20 week period. Read more

Doorstep Sport

StreetGames' flagship programme - Doorstep Sport is an innovative sporting offer that bypasses many of the traditional barriers to activity amongst young people in poverty. Read more

Let's Get Physical

Let's Get Physical is an award-winning sports, activity and weight management programme aimed at young people aged 5-15. Read more

Latest

StreetGames and partners launch ‘Newcastle’s Best Summer Ever’

StreetGames is pleased to announce that this could very well be ‘Newcastle’s Best Summer Ever’, as the organisation launches a £1.1-million-pound scheme, funded by the Department for Education.

StreetGames partners with EAT. for new in-store #FitandFed promotion

From 19th June, four Fit and Fed hero products, including a Ham & Piccalilli Bloomer, will be on sale at all EAT. stores across the UK, with 25p from the sale of each product donated to StreetGames - changing children’s lives one bite at a time.

Newcastle's Best Summer Ever

‘Newcastle’s Best Summer Ever’ is a new holiday activity scheme aimed at supporting the city’s 5 to 18 year olds through a combination of sport, play and nutritious meals.

LTA announces StreetGames as new national charity partner

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 inception in 2007, StreetGames has been an active champion and innovator in the community sport sector. On a day-to-day basis the organisation is led by CEO Jane Ashworth OBE.

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.

Youth Crime Impact Programme

Appropriately-designed sports programmes can help to reduce youth-related crime and anti-social behaviour (ASB) in hotspot areas.

Fit and Fed

StreetGames’ innovative Fit and Fed campaign offers fun physical activities and nutritious, healthy meals, to some of society’s most vulnerable young people.

Join the Network

StreetGames welcomes network applications from community, youth and sport organisations that share the organisation's goal of changing lives, changing communities and changing sport. Successful candidates will receive StreetGames' seal of approval - the StreetMark.

Us Girls

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.