Author Archive for: Sport For Life International

Lawn Tennis Association Tennis Foundation supports Sport Legacy Foundation (SLF) with 4 year grant for Building Character through Tennis!

SLF started coaching tennis as part of a summer camp delivery to fifty Year 6 students in 2 schools in diverse Birmingham in 2015. Tennis was popular, so it was launched as part of the new programme ‘Building Character through Sport’ with the Commonwealth Games 2022.
Following a successful few years delivering tennis as part of BCtS, SLF is now delighted to announce further grant support from the LTA Tennis Foundation…

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Core & Co Foundation partners with Sport Legacy Foundation (SLF) for long term tennis programme #RaiseMyGame.

The Core & Co Foundation, https://core-education.co.uk/core-co-foundation is a registered charity set up by CORE Education Trust in 2020 to develop creative partnership programmes for children and young people. The Birmingham based Foundation, with four large academies situated in some of the city’s most disadvantaged areas, has partnered SLF for a long term tennis programme entitled #RaiseMyGame. Starting in two academies,

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Sport England Movement Fund

August 2024: Funded by Sport England’s Movement Fund, SLF provided a valuable summer camp to Black Country students for 2 weeks during the latter half of the summer holidays. More than forty 11-16 year old boys and girls from Shireland Collegiate Academy joined SLF coaches for multisport sessions which included tennis, football and cricket for 3 hours per day Monday

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Postcode Lottery Trust

As part of the 2023-24 delivery of the 27 week LTA Tennis Foundation grant in Bradford Leeds, we have been delighted to receive match funding from the Postcode Lottery Trust of £22,980. Specifically targeting communities in the north of England, the Postcode Lottery Trust supported our first year tennis coaching enabling SLF to reach more young people in target areas

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LTA brings Emma Raducanu Trophy Tour 2022 to Sport for Life tennis programme at Waverley School 11th May 2022

We’re taking you back to the summer of 2021 when a history maker was born; the moment British No 1 Emma Raducanu experienced what can only be described as a fairy tale ending to a scintillating season. A moment that will never be forgotten, a moment she shared with an entire nation, a moment that united a nation, and now, Raducanu wants to share this remarkable moment with you.

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14th March 2022 Commonwealth Day

Front page of Barbados Advocate: Sport for Life (Barbados) receives donation from British High Commission’.
Monday 14 March marked Commonwealth Day throughout the 54 member organisations, with celebrations taking place throughout the world. 
At the Kensington Oval cricket ground in Barbados, the Captains of the England and West Indies cricket teams joined British High Commissioner Scott Furssedonn-Wood in making a donation to Sport for Life (Barbados). Based at the Oval, Sport for Life (Barbados) was founded as the Legacy Programme to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 and offers support in academic subjects and IT and life skills, together with cricket coaching to school kids who are in need of an extra boost…

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SLF appointed ‘United By’ partner to Commonwealth Games Birmingham 2022!

UNITED BY BIRMINGHAM 2022
SLF is delighted to have been chosen as one of the United By partners to Birmingham 2022. With our new programme of coaching Building Character through Sport, we aim to bring down barriers to entry into sport and education that currently exist amongst communities in less advantaged areas of Birmingham. It builds on the successful and long running Sport for Life International (SFLI) model that uses the power of sport to create new opportunities for young people, especially girls, and their communities to play cricket, tennis and football to increase fitness levels, build mental health and to access quality sporting facilities and coaching.

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