Sport & Physical Activity Health & Wellbeing 2025
Argyle Community Trust

Creating Space for Change — Impact Report 2024/25

Argyle Community Trust is the official charity of Plymouth Argyle FC, delivering community programmes across Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall. Their 2024/25 impact report documents 12,693 people supported, £70.4m in social value, and a landmark year including the opening of The Hub at Foulston Park community health hub in Devonport and a national EFL award win for their Children Affected by Parental Imprisonment programme.

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Youth mentoring and diversion (Premier League Kicks, Premier League Inspires); ACTing with Children (supporting young people with a parent in prison); Argyle FIT (weight management); Talk & Tackle (men's mental health); cancer walking football; Holiday Activities and Food; disability sport (Argyle4Autism, Ability Counts); post-16 BTEC Sport; apprenticeships; Project 35 food poverty initiative; The Hub at Foulston Park community health hub Custom geography from upload: Plymouth / Devon / Cornwall

📊Key Metrics

12,693 local people supported (enough to fill Home Park Stadium six times); 1,049,668 total contact hours across all provisions; £70.4 million social value generated — £70 return for every £1 spent Key Metric 1
52% of participants from the 40% most deprived areas nationally; 1,734 kg lost on weight management programmes; 86% reduction in school absenteeism among mentored young people (down to 18%) Key Metric 2
Won Championship and overall EFL Community Project of the Season Award 2025 (ACTing with Children programme); 98% of post-16 BTEC students achieved or exceeded target grades; 82% apprenticeship achievement rate — among highest in Devon and Cornwall Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Project 35 (with Ginsters): 50,508 food items shared, 23,395 items donated to holiday hunger programmes, 907 Christmas hampers delivered, 4,160 Ginsters products to people in temporary accommodation — celebrated three-year anniversary
  • The Hub at Foulston Park opened March 2025: state-of-the-art community hub in Devonport (one of Plymouth's most deprived areas); 7 in 10 users from most deprived postcodes; 576 gym members; 229,950 visits to community provisions across facilities
  • ACTing with Children: 114 vulnerable young people supported, 86% reduction in absenteeism, 75% improved resilience and confidence, 38 not previously known to any other service; Argyle FIT secured 5-year Cornwall Council contract; Sherford Sports Hub launched

📍Geography

South West

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