Saracens Rugby Club
This project's parent organization is Saracens Rugby Club
It operates in United Kingdom
It uses Rugby Union
Shortlisted for the Sport Team of the Year
More about Saracens Rugby Club
Sport has the ability to inspire and engage in a way that little else does. We use sport as the hook to engage young people at risk of exclusion and crime, to provide opportunities and create better life chances. O
ur four strategic pillars guide our work, targeting interventions under Inclusion, Health & Wellbeing, Education & Training and Sport Development. This enables us to tackle a broad range of issues, whilst also focusing on social issues which reflect our communities need such as cohesion, social isolation, anti-social behaviour and offending, obesity and exclusion. Locally our projects targeting NEET young people and young people with a disability are specifically targeted at the local need. However, all our work is increasingly guided to attend to a significantly growing matter.
Youth unemployment and its consequences are one of the most serious social issues this country faces. This is no more starkly illuminated by the 2011 London riots and by engaging young people within our community. Through our programmes we seek to offer opportunities to engage with many of these young people, in their areas, on their terms, to build relationships and seek further education and employability opportunities.