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Sporting Futures

Coventry Sporting Futures manage a range of projects such as Positive Futures and Coventry Fusion.

Sporting Futures is a sports-based social inclusion programme aimed at 10-19 year olds.

The programme is joint funded by The Home Office, The Football Foundation, Sport England and The Youth Justice Board and supported by the Coventry Community Safety Partnership. We operate seven days a week and offer an extensive timetable of activities for local young people.

You can find out more by downloading our guide (PDF) or by reading our Sporting Futures Newsletter (PDF).

Sporting Futures on YouTube

• Daley Thompson's visit to Sporting Future (external website)
• Live not Knives (external website): Young people from Radford used their musical talents to highlight the positive work Coventry are doing to highlight the dangers of young people using knives.
• The Radford Crew - Don't waste your life on drugs (external website)
• The Radford Crew - Don't Drink track (external website)

Summer holiday activities

Find out about our half term programmes at Daimler Green Sports Centre and Longford Park (PDF)

The vision

To use sport and leisure as a vehicle to engage young people in a range of positive activities, impacting on positive outcomes in relation to their personal development, health, education, training and employment.

To ensure that we provide an appropriate service, we will use the Aiming high for young people strategy as a framework for our programmes.

The six key objectives outlined by Sporting Futures are:

• Rebalancing the public narrative about young people to counteract negative
  perceptions
• Empowering young people to increase their influence over the design and delivery of services for them
• Increasing the number of local places for young people to go
• Removing barriers and supporting young people to access local opportunities and services for them
• Improving the capacity and quality of services for young people
• Supporting and developing the youth workforce to employ the very best practice in working with young people.

What do we offer?

• Curriculum-based sessions for young people who are identified as being 'at-risk' of exclusion
• School study support
• Evening sessions most nights of the week including weekends
• 'Drop-in' sports sessions (Football, Cricket, Golf, Fitness etc.)
• Competitive sports teams  (Football, Cricket and Netball)
• Sports Scholarships - supporting local talent
• Volunteer development (16-19)
• Coach Education scheme
• Holiday schemes
• Support with personal issues - referrals to services
• Specific programmes for the most 'at risk' young people in the area
• A variety of programmes tailored to meet individual and group needs

Referral form

If you are an agency wishing to refer a young person to Sporting Futures, please download the referral form and return it to us. Once the form has been received a member of the team will contact you.

Contact details

Rashid Bhayat
Sporting Futures

Hillfields Young People's Centre

Yardley Street
Coventry CV1 5NJ
Telephone: 024 7678 5198
E-mail: rashid.bhayat@coventry.gov.uk

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