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Sport 4 Life UK

Impact Report 2025

Sport 4 Life UK's 2025 impact report covers the 2024/25 year, detailing support for almost 4,000 disadvantaged young people across Birmingham and the West Midlands through mentoring, employability guidance and sport-based interventions. It highlights improvements in life skills, mental wellbeing and reduced offending behaviour, progression into employment, education or training, and the reach of its Impact Partner model, which supported over 20,000 young people nationally in collaboration with partner organisations.

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Delivers mentoring, employability guidance, accredited qualifications and training, youth-led social action projects, and sports sessions for disadvantaged young people across Birmingham and the West Midlands, working through schools, community outreach and an 'Impact Partner' model that extends its reach nationally.

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 3,875 young people supported in 2024/25
Key Metric 2 1,993 young people improved their employability skills
Key Metric 3 66% of young people reported an improvement in their wellbeing, based on the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale

Key Outcomes

  • 301 young people progressed into employment, education or training
  • 1,424 young people significantly improved their life skills
  • 1,097 young people demonstrated positive changes in behaviours associated with crime

Geography

West Midlands

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