What We Do

Sports Leaders UK changes lives: its range of awards and qualifications equips people with the skills and motivation to create and run sporting activities in the community.

Each year 200,000 young people train to be Sports Leaders by taking part in Sports Leaders UK courses, the majority through their schools, colleges and universities. Now, a growing number of courses are delivered in prisons, youth offending institutes, and a variety of local youth and community organisations. This provides opportunities for young people to volunteer as a Sports Leader and take up a purposeful role within their community, gaining recognition for their skills as a leader, and with this develop a valuable sense of self-worth. Many build and pursue ambitions for further education, training, and future employment which they would not have otherwise dreamt of.

Trained Sports Leaders provide vital local volunteers to get people active in their communities. Our movement of over 200,000 Sports Leaders each year is providing a national impetus for a more healthy and physically active nation.