UK Sport announces Event Social Impact Partners

Loughborough University, Access Sport, Coach Core Foundation and StreetGames have been named as UK Sport’s first-ever Event Social Impact Partners, with the aim of using major events to drive positive change.

The initiative will see the partners work with UK Sport on social impact measures at a strategic level. The organisations will collaborate to develop a centralised social impact strategy and structure for the sector, driven by scalable solutions, evidence-based methodologies, and best practice examples.

The project ties in with UK Sport’s recently launched Making Live Sport Matter initiative, a new strategic framework for major events, that is committed to continuing to embed social impact into events as a priority.

Every event that UK Sport invests National Lottery funding into must have social impact at its heart and deliver positive, lasting change across areas including health and wellbeing, employment skills and EDI, alongside embedding environmental sustainability into event operations.