Community Games

More about Community Games

SportInspired’s Community Games help children find and regularly do sport they love. Through this sport, young people build confidence, passion and other life skills which will keep them engaged in their communities and healthy as they grow up. This will eventually lead to decreased anti-social behavior as well as greater community cohesion.

There is a clear need for locally owned, locally led solutions to apathy, anti-social behaviour and obesity that are sustainable and not dependent upon government funding for their success – this is what SportInspired offers.

Across the UK, communities are afflicted by the effects of deprivation, obesity and/or inactivity:

•  Nearly one in four Britons are obese – this trend starts early, 9% of children start primary education obese, growing to 18% by the time they leave;
•  80% of young people in Troubled Families, responsible for most anti-social behaviour say that “they have nothing better to do”, “they don’t know any better” and “they don’t feel a connection to others”.

The Chief Medical Officers Guidelines, released by DH in 2011, state: “exercise for children is vital, the cost of inactivity to the UK economy is £8.2bn.”