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Barclays Spaces for Sports draws on the skills, experience and local expertise of a range of organisations, to ensure the effective and sustainable delivery of our sites and initiatives.
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Wooden Spoon
Wooden Spoon is the children’s charity of rugby. “Spoon” harnesses the spirit and values of rugby to improve the quality and prospect of life for disadvantaged children and young people across the UK and Ireland. In so doing it involves 500 volunteers and some of the UK’s top sporting role models in making a difference to the lives of underprivileged children and young people.
In the UK, one child in every hundred suffers from a lifelong disability that will profoundly affect his or her ability to lead a full and happy life. More than 3.5 million young people grow up areas of deprivation with diminished opportunities. In the last 25 years Spoon has supported over 350 projects across 40 regions with more than £15m helping 500,000 children and young people.
Projects range from sensory rooms, interactive gardens and playgrounds for special needs children; rugby projects to combat bullying, violence, obesity and discrimination; and education projects to help young people gain qualifications, find work and start on new, positive paths in life.
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Rugby Football Union
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Enterprise Education Trust
The Enterprise Education Trust empowers young people to realise their potential through business and enterprise.
The Trust is one of the UK's leading business and enterprise education charities and brings together businessdynamics, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), Blue Skies and Achievers.
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Groundwork, UK
One of Barclays Spaces for Sports' founding partners, Groundwork is a federation of trusts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Groundwork helps people and organisations make changes to create better neighbourhoods, to build skills and job prospects and to live and work in a greener way.
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The Football Foundation, UK
One of Barclays Spaces for Sports founding partners is the Football Foundation. The Football Foundation is the largest sports charity in the UK, currently funded by The FA, Government (via Sport England), the Premier League and the Greater London Authority. It is responsible for providing capital grants in support of local, grassroots community sports facility development projects. The Foundation's role is to drive a much needed improvement in the availability and quality of local community sports facilities across the country, thereby enhancing the experience of people playing grassroots sport and increasing participation levels.
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British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV), UK
BTCV encourages volunteers to become involved in environmental conservation, aiming to create environments where people are valued and included, inspiring people and improving their surroundings.
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Nacro, UK
Crime reduction charity Nacro helps ex-offenders, disadvantaged people and deprived communities work towards building a better future. Its 17 football projects across England are funded by Barclays Spaces for Sports partner the Football Foundation.
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Cricket for Change, UK
Over the past three years, Street 20 cricket projects have been launched in Jamaica, Sri Lanka, South Africa and London. Street 20 is a version of cricket developed by Cricket for Change. It has its roots in Pakistan where it is called tape-ball cricket. The significant features of Street 20 are its speed, its ability to be played almost anywhere with very limited equipment, and its use of a tennis ball bound with tape.
Cricket for Change has recently changed its name from the LCCA, which has over 25 years experience of using cricket to help disadvantaged young people. Targeting housing estates in deprived areas in London, Street 20 has been supported by Metropolitan Police units, including the Tactical Support Group (TSG) and Hackney Police.
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Metropolitan Police Service, UK
The Metropolitan Police Service is committed to working with young people to make London safer. This project follows MPS involvement with other sports initiatives such as Kickz and Met-track which provide an added opportunity for police officers to meet with young people regularly and talk to them about crime and safety issues. Through investment in such projects the MPS aims to further develop confidence and trust between police and young people.
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Cricket Foundation, UK
Chance to shine is the Cricket Foundation’s campaign to regenerate competitive cricket in state schools. A 10-year programme, it is the single biggest sports development programme ever seen in this country. It aims to educate state school children through cricket by establishing high-quality, sustainable cricket-led educational programmes in a third of all UK state schools by 2015. StreetChance supported by Barclays Spaces for Sports is an extension of the Chance to shine model for inner-city areas, providing 25 hours of professional cricket coaching and competition during the summer term.
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Positive Futures, UK
Positive Futures is a national activity-based social inclusion programme, funded by the Home Office and managed by young people's charity Catch22. It is a key partner in the StreetChance programme, launched in July 2008 by Barclays Spaces for Sports. The three-year initiative is introducing 'Street 20' cricket, which requires only limited equipment, across 10 London boroughs affected by youth crime and anti-social behaviour.
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East Side Charter School, USA
East Side Charter School in Wilmington, Delaware, is in an economically deprived neighbourhood near the Barclaycard US main office. Barclays Spaces for Sports has funded a range of sports facilities for the school, and over 100 Barclaycard colleagues act as mentors for its pupils.
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Beyond Sport, Global
Beyond Sport is an initiative that celebrates sustainable sports projects around the word – from grassroots to global programmes – sharing best practice and using successful initiatives to inspire others. Barclays Spaces for Sports supports the Beyond Sport Awards, Beyond Sport Summit and The Global Sport Foundation – Beyond Sport’s grant-providing charity partner.
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Grassroot Soccer, Africa
In May 2009, Barclays Spaces for Sports entered into a partnership with Grassroot Soccer, an organization that mobilizes the global soccer community to prevent the spread of HIV and provide at-risk youth with the knowledge, skills, and counseling to lead healthier lives. Barclays Spaces for Sports supports Grassroot Soccer’s efforts in Zambia, which involves training professional footballers, heroes among Zambian youth, to use their influence in teaching them about risky behavior that leads to HIV.
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Compassion for Migrant Children, China
Barclays Spaces for Sports announced its partnership with Compassion for Migrant Children (CMC) in July 2009. With support from the programme, the charity will help deliver a sports site in Beijing, providing a migrant community with facilities for a range of sports, reflecting their needs and wishes.
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