Sported Foundation

Who we are

Sported is the largest grassroots charity in the UK. We lead a collaboration of more than 5,000 community groups, youth clubs and sports clubs who deliver sport for good across the UK.

Working in every corner of the UK, our network delivers 90 different sports to over a million people, to bring about lasting social change within their communities.

We deliver FREE resources and programmes to the network that help them to transform lives through sport.

Our culture and values

Our Vision

We want every young person to have the same opportunity to fulfil their potential.

Our purpose

We exist to reach, include and empower communities through the sustainable local provision of sport and physical activity.

Our mission

We help community groups survive, to help young people thrive.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

We intend to supercharge our commitment in inclusion. Our focus will be on strengthening our local workforce and building resilience and working with our network to achieve our outcomes. We plan to take our mission forward by focusing our efforts around 3 key ambitions.

1. Valuing and supporting our people, and ensuring our workforce reflects the communities we serve. 

2. Leading by example, we will drive positive change across our network with our passion and understanding of inclusion.

3. Collaborating with partners across the UK to improve the representation of historically under-served communities within grassroots sport.

We plan to achieve these ambitions by adopting a strengths-based approach with our workforce, continuing to stay member focused and leveraging on our wider partnerships to close the gaps between our members and partners. Sported’s strength is in the ability to build partnerships and to use this as a base of strength for our communities. We value our partnerships from across our sector. However, we recognise that we have a unique opportunity to consider how we build, grow and learn from our partners and our members. As we look to diversify our workforce and expand our members our existing partners are founded on our mutual values and is an essential component to our ways of working. 

Our plans are bold, brave and reflect our intent to ensure that our work in inclusion has the impact needed in the sector and reflect the need to address inequality as swiftly as possible; taking the appropriate action needed.