Partners
StreetGames is a UK Youth Sports charity working with the poorest and most disadvantaged communities. StreetGames, founded in 2005, is a leading UK civil society organisation using grassroots sport to empower young people with fewer opportunities to improve their lives so they can gain employment and lead a healthy and active lifestyle. StreetGames works to break down barriers and inequalities in sport and in society. StreetGames impacts on the lives of over 75,000 young people with fewer opportunities per year across the United Kingdom (UK).
The European Observatoire of Sport and Employment(EOSE) is an independent not for profit association, based in France, with a network composed of national organisations from across Europe, sharing a common interest in sport and physical activity, focusing mainly in skills and workforce development. The scope of EOSE is to cover the whole European sport sector and its vision is: “A sport and active leisure sector that is playing its full part in the economic, health and social development of Europe and its member states”.
The International Sport and Culture Association(ISCA) is a democratic, non-governmental, not-for-profit umbrella association with 103 European member organisations and 209 member organisations worldwide. ISCA’s tag line is ‘MOVING PEOPLE’. This means they are advocating policy change, delivering capacity building, and promoting cross-sector collaboration to increase citizens’ involvement in sport and physical activity.
UnioneItaliana Sport Per tutti (UISP) is an Italian association which aims to extend the right to sport for all citizens. UISP works to ensure that every sector of society, especially those with fewer opportunities, get the health, quality of life, education, and resilience benefits that comes from playing regular sport. USIP fights social inequality and lack of equal opportunities. Sport for all is a right, and UISP is set up to meet the needs of all citizens. UISP advocates for rights, and for differences to be recognised and valued, including different age, abilities, disabilities, and sexual differences.
The mission of V4Sport in Poland is to increase the number of people who are physically active. There are two main drivers the organisation uses to achieve this, 1)new technology and 2)volunteers: 1. V4Sport believes that new technologies are the key to the successful engagement of young people in the field of sports volunteering. 2. Volunteers play a very important role in this process, in particular young volunteers who are from the same demographic. V4Sport develops tools to improve communication between organisations and young people interested in volunteering.
Women Winare a thought leader organisation, and global convener, strategically positioned at the intersection of women’s rights, international development and sport. Since their inception in 2007, Women Win have worked with partners across sectors to advance the case of sport as a powerful strategy to address gender inequity and empower adolescent girls and young women. Women Win’s mission is to advance the policy and practice in many countries that empowers adolescent girls and young women through sport, and their vision is to see adolescent girls and young women across the world understanding and exercising their rights.