A CHALLENGING AND INSPIRING LOOK AT SPORT’S ROLE ADDRESSING THE UK’S MOST PRESSING SOCIAL ISSUES
In the UK and globally, sport is playing an increasingly powerful role addressing pressing social issues, uniting local communities and helping individuals connect and achieve their full potential. But with communities across the UK and beyond facing greater pressures than ever before, there has never been a more urgent need for deeper, more sustainable collaboration to cement and increase sport’s unique role as a powerful force for good.
Beyond Sport UK looked at sport as a driver for both social good and business success and examined how unique and unexpected partnerships, across the public, third and corporate sector are creating lasting change and determine how we can do more together, including:
- The current state of society and the challenge and opportunity for sport to have a positive impact
- Cutting-edge ways sport is positively impacting society in the UK and abroad
- Sport's role in the UK's most pressing issues, including youth justice, gang-based knife crime, low socio-economic groups, youth violence, mental health & wellbeing, migrant cohesion, employment
- The growing focus of purpose in business
- Envision 2030: looking ahead to future
- The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and achieving them through sport
- Policy, economic investment, sustainable communities: sport creating change on a macro level
