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Support Through Sport

Support Through Sport Impact Report 2025

Support Through Sport is a registered charity based in Nottingham, working at the intersection of sport and youth work across the East Midlands and Birmingham. Founded in 2021, the charity uses football, boxing and multi-sport programmes to engage disadvantaged young people aged 8–18, combining sport with targeted mentoring, education and youth leadership to divert young people from violence and build safer communities.

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Weekly sport-based intervention sessions for ages 8–18; targeted youth mentoring; progressions mentoring; education programmes in schools; holiday activity and food programmes; knife crime and drugs awareness workshops; employability sessions; youth leadership development

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Thousands of disadvantaged young people supported across Nottingham, Derbyshire and Birmingham through sport-based intervention and mentoring
Key Metric 2 Multi-sport evening programmes delivered weekly in communities of need across the Midlands
Key Metric 3 Targeted 1-2-1 youth mentoring for young people with 4+ adverse childhood experiences

Key Outcomes

  • At-risk young people diverted from knife crime, gang culture, youth offending and serious violence
  • Young people's confidence, resilience and protective factors strengthened through trusted relationships with mentors
  • Safer communities across the Midlands through proactive prevention and early intervention

Geography

East Midlands

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