Sport & Physical Activity Community & Social Justice 2025
Access Sport

Access Sport Annual Review 2024-2025

Access Sport is a charity working to combat exclusion, hardship and poor health among disabled and disadvantaged young people by building thriving, inclusive community sports clubs in the most deprived areas of England. Operating across Birmingham, Bristol, London, Manchester, Oxford and Sheffield, the 2024-25 annual review reports a record 34,606 young people reached — a 69% year-on-year increase — alongside 604 clubs supported and 1,124 coaches trained. Work spans place-based Changing Places programmes, sport-specific inclusive offers including Flyerz hockey and Hoopz basketball, and partnerships with the ECB, British Cycling and Nuffield Health. The charity's 2022-2027 Stand For Inclusion growth strategy drives continued expansion.

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📋About

Place-based community sports club development (Changing Places programme); inclusive sport-specific programmes including Flyerz hockey and Hoopz basketball; coach and volunteer disability inclusion training; Young Leaders programme; multi-sport festivals; national governing body partnerships (ECB, British Cycling); Nuffield Health partnership; work across 30+ sports and physical activities Custom geography from upload: England (London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield)

📊Key Metrics

34,606 young people reached in 2024-25 — a 69% increase on the previous year's figure of 20,495 Key Metric 1
604 community sports clubs supported across England Key Metric 2
1,124 coaches and volunteers trained to deliver inclusive sport sessions Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • 34,606 young people reached in 2024-25 — a 69% increase on 20,495 the previous year — in line with the 2022-2027 Stand For Inclusion growth strategy, which targets expansion of inclusive community sport in the most disadvantaged areas of England
  • 604 community sports clubs supported across Birmingham, Bristol, London, Manchester, Oxford and Sheffield, with coaches upskilled to put inclusivity at the core of delivery across more than 30 different sports including football, boccia, yoga, dance, fencing, frame running and cricket
  • The four-year Nuffield Health partnership (launched 2022) delivered transformation for tens of thousands of young people's lives, with the programme celebrated as a major success before a new Principal Partner was sought for Greater Manchester in 2025-26

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