From Abu Dhabi to Loughborough
Abdu Dhabi continues, Loughborough University connections explored and the Community Sport Accelerator… well…. accelerates!
Newcastle Eagles and Essential Social Infrastructure
Visit to Newcastle Eagles Basketball and thoughts on how community sport organisations create a practical, preventative network that improves health, rebuilds confidence, reduces loneliness, connects people into health, employment and other services, and strengthens safer, more resilient neighbourhoods—often at lower cost, and earlier, than formal systems can respond.
Community sport is therefore not a ‘nice to have’. It is essential social infrastructure
What makes a team?
How Tom and the team at parkrun went from 15,000 participants per week in 2012 to 400,000 participants per week in 2024.
International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
Reflecting on an article written by Ivo Freijsen, the UNHCR Representative in Bangladesh on how sport can be essential within immediate humanitarian settings and as “critical avenues for young people to become an active part of their community and contribute to social cohesion” today and in the future.
Collaboration and Acceleration
Looking for synergies across other sport and development platforms, hosting the first Leeds Summit Declaration Working Group on Collaboration and making ‘Accelerator’ progress!
What is Community Sport?
Debating whether a definition of community sport is useful and attending a Yorkshire Sport Foundation event on regional impact.
Visualise the Future
Spending time with Liam Bardell, co-founder of Kelham Island Table Tennis Club and hearing of his plans to grow community sport in Kenya.
From Strategy to Practice
A week of strategy drafting mixed with practical support to community sport organisations and a guest stint at the University of Leeds
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Spending time with Kelham Island Table Tennis club in Sheffield and participating in a HMG working group on Sport for Diplomacy.
Who makes community sport amazing
Remembering Hannah Corne and participating in a fantastic Accenture workshop on how to support community sport organisations.
From Seeds Mighty Community Sport Oaks Grow
Participating in the 10k bit of the Riyadh marathon and speaking at a UN event on the importance of taking a long term perspective to community sport.
Return to Riyadh
Preparing for Riyadh 10k and a session with the UN on social legacy after mega sporting events.
Community Sport Collective
Reconvening with the community sport collective that began to form at the Leeds Summit.
