#OpenGoal drop-in session
Learn how Coalition members are working together to support key policy priorities and sustainable development goals
With an Olympics, Paralympics and General Election set to take place during 2024, the next 12 months represents a critical year for sport for development across the UK.
To help us prepare, the Sport for Development Coalition is running a weekly series of 30-minute online drop-in sessions for its members and supporters. Join us for one of the sessions, and please pass on this invitation to other relevant colleagues and contacts for other sessions.
The purpose of the sessions is to share and discuss how Coalition supporters will come together to mark the UN’s International Day of Sport for Development and Peace on 6th April by showing how they are ready to play their part in meeting key policy priorities for UK Government throughout 2024 and beyond.
We will do this by supporting the Coalition’s #OpenGoal Shared Advocacy Framework, which was launched on 6th April 2022. The framework was co-designed by network members as a way of highlighting to policy-makers the contribution of targeted sport and physical activity-based interventions to generating a series of positive health, economic and environmental benefits, ranging from improved health and wellbeing to reduced crime and increased social cohesion.
Sport for development interventions can deliver multiple returns on investment across national policy priorities, and therefore help to create significant public cost savings in communities facing the greatest disadvantage and deprivation. Collectively we believe this presents an ‘open goal’ for policy-makers, which anyone working in sport and development can contribute to.
Our aim is to work collectively to demonstrate to policy-makers the value of ring-fencing investment for sport for development programmes across Government departments, such as the £5million Youth Justice Sport Fund from the Ministry of Justice delivered by Coalition partners in 2023.
On and around 6th April we are calling on your organisation to showcase and share evidence of how your projects and programmes are supporting the #OpenGoal framework, so we can shine a national spotlight on the amazing work being carried out every day by the UK’s sport for development sector.
Learn how Coalition members are working together to support key policy priorities and sustainable development goals
With an Olympics, Paralympics and General Election set to take place during 2024, the next 12 months represents a critical year for sport for development across the UK.
To help us prepare, the Sport for Development Coalition is running a weekly series of 30-minute online drop-in sessions for its members and supporters. Join us for one of the sessions, and please pass on this invitation to other relevant colleagues and contacts for other sessions.
The purpose of the sessions is to share and discuss how Coalition supporters will come together to mark the UN’s International Day of Sport for Development and Peace on 6th April by showing how they are ready to play their part in meeting key policy priorities for UK Government throughout 2024 and beyond.
We will do this by supporting the Coalition’s #OpenGoal Shared Advocacy Framework, which was launched on 6th April 2022. The framework was co-designed by network members as a way of highlighting to policy-makers the contribution of targeted sport and physical activity-based interventions to generating a series of positive health, economic and environmental benefits, ranging from improved health and wellbeing to reduced crime and increased social cohesion.
Sport for development interventions can deliver multiple returns on investment across national policy priorities, and therefore help to create significant public cost savings in communities facing the greatest disadvantage and deprivation. Collectively we believe this presents an ‘open goal’ for policy-makers, which anyone working in sport and development can contribute to.
Our aim is to work collectively to demonstrate to policy-makers the value of ring-fencing investment for sport for development programmes across Government departments, such as the £5million Youth Justice Sport Fund from the Ministry of Justice delivered by Coalition partners in 2023.
On and around 6th April we are calling on your organisation to showcase and share evidence of how your projects and programmes are supporting the #OpenGoal framework, so we can shine a national spotlight on the amazing work being carried out every day by the UK’s sport for development sector.