Barclays Spaces for Sports, a community-based sports programme which uses sport as a platform to help young people develop life skills and revitalise disadvantaged communities in a sustainable way, has extended its partnership with Beyond Sport, the organisation which works to unearth, celebrate and support inspirational sports projects, people and organisations that drive positive change.
The Beyond Sport Summit and Awards, the premier global gathering in the field of sport and development, will return to London this summer from 23rd to 25th July. Online registration for the event, which brings together the most influential and forward-thinking global figures from the worlds of sport, business, politics and philanthropy to drive the use of sport as a tool for social change, is open now at www.beyondsport.org/summit.
Beyond Sport, the global organisation that promotes, develops and funds the use of sport to create positive social change, is delighted to announce that entries are now open on for this year’s Beyond Sport Awards – with the winners to be unveiled at the Beyond Sport Summit, to be held in London in July.
The second wave of winners of the Beyond Sport Awards 2011 was announced on Thursday, with the final six winning projects revealed on the last day of the Beyond Sport Summit.
Beyond Sport, SportAccord, Spirit of Soccer, streetfootballworld and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) have come together to take a huge step forward in addressing child protection all around the world, with the Beyond Sport Summit the venue for the launch of a range of dramatic measures each organisation will take to tackle the exploitation of children around the globe.
The Beyond Sport Summit and Awards, the largest and most influential global gathering in the field of sport and development, officially opened on Monday 5th December in Cape Town, South Africa. Over a four-day period this week, Beyond Sport will welcome some of the most influential and forward-thinking global figures from the worlds of sport, business, politics and philanthropy to Cape Town.
Sport and development figures from around the globe had the chance to see one of the world’s most successful examples of corporate investment in sport as a tool for social change in action on the day before the Beyond Sport Summit and Awards opens in Cape Town.
Didier Drogba, the Chelsea FC and Ivory Coast striker, has been honoured with Beyond Sport's Humanitarian in Sport Award – supported by Virgin Atlantic, following in the footsteps of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Congolese ex-NBA star Dikembe Mutombo and taking receipt of the Award in the week before the Beyond Sport Summit is staged in Africa for the first time.
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