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Right To Play UK 2024 Annual Report

Right To Play UK is the UK arm of a global organisation that uses play — including sport and games — to protect, educate and empower children affected by conflict, poverty and displacement. Its 2024 Annual Report covers programmes across 17 countries, spanning early childhood education, literacy, girls' empowerment and crisis response, reaching 4.7 million children in 2024. [Note: this is a broader play/child-development charity rather than a sport-specific one; flagging for confirmation that it fits the Sport & Physical Activity category before publishing.]

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Play-based early childhood education, primary literacy programmes, gender equality and girls' wellbeing initiatives, and emotional wellbeing/crisis-response support for refugee and displaced children, delivered across 17 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 4.7 million children reached globally in 2024, 48% of them girls
Key Metric 2 105,000 educators and 550,000 parents/caregivers trained in play-based approaches
Key Metric 3 18 million children empowered across 47 countries since the charity's founding in 2000

Key Outcomes

  • Literacy scores more than doubled among young children in Uganda's Play To Grow programme
  • 99% of previously out-of-school female participants in Tanzania's Save Her Seat project re-entered and stayed in school
  • 95% of children in Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories felt better able to express their emotions after psychosocial support sessions

Geography

International

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
754 unique young people registered for Sport and Life Skills programmes (+114% vs 2022-23)
Key Metric 2
16 Locally Trusted Organisations delivered the programme, up from 9 in 2022-23
Key Metric 3
2,650 sessions held by delivery organisations in 2023-24
72% of young people reported 'getting on better at school or college' following engagement
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Close to 2,000 participants supported in 2024/25 across youth, prison and environmental programmes
Key Metric 2
826 students from 10 state schools took part, 67% female, with 70% of partner schools in the most deprived areas (IMD 1-4)
Key Metric 3
184 serving or released prisoners engaged through the 'Boats not Bars' reducing-reoffending programme
85% of young people improved their mental wellbeing and 83% felt more confident through the youth programme
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
21,212 people engaged with in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
17,708 people played some form of rugby through Foundation programmes
Key Metric 3
More than £9,000 raised through Foundation Day; 9,000+ given back to grassroots rugby clubs
88% of girls in the Girls Tackle Rugby programme reported feeling more confident, per independent research with Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
£3,112,419 raised to deliver projects in 2024/25; total income £2,920,000 and total expenditure £2,850,000 (year ended 31 August 2024)
Key Metric 2
28,692 people took part in activities; 307,544 visits to sessions; 17,793 sessions delivered
Key Metric 3
More than 16,000 young people engaged across early years and primary programmes; 34 Premier League Primary Stars partner schools; over 7,000 healthy meals provided...
Blackpool FC Sports College A Team won the CEFA league title 2024/25; BFC School received 'Good' Ofsted rating in November 2024; Norbreck Primary Academy reached EFL Utilita Kids Cup National Final at Wembley, winning Regional Finals unbeaten