The Impact of the Beyond Sport Awards
For the past seven years the Beyond Sport Summit & Awards has provided a global platform for organisations from around the world to showcase their work using sport as a way to create positive social change.
Every year more than 1,000 people gather at the Beyond Sport Summit to connect with likeminded peers to share ideas and examples of social innovation happening in various areas of the sporting world, as well as celebrate the winners of the Beyond Sport Awards.
Furthermore, each year there is a significant and much needed positive impact for all the worthy winners; not only does each project gain from the notoriety and the chance to network with others, there is a direct benefit of the business support package and funding provided to winners.
Read what the Beyond Sport Award means to some of our 2015 winners:
Recognition
"The chance to be recognised through this platform of peers and people here that I have a lot of respect for hopefully means we’ll get more supporters, and get more partners, and we’ll be able to make it work to help more people around the world”.
Luke Dowdney MBE - Founder & Director, Fight for Peace International - Sport for Conflict Resolution
"It’s inspirational first of all. For our staff. And for them to know that their hard work is being recognised.”
Seren Fryatt - Executive Director, L.A.C.E.S. - Courageous use of Sport Award
Network
"…. having an amazing platform from which we can do social change is not a just an opportunity but an obligation. And for us to be able to use this international stage to share the good work we are doing in the community is just amazing.”
Joanne Pasternack - Vice President & Executive Director, Community Relations & 49ers Foundation at San Francisco 49ers - Sport Team of the Year
"We’ve been [at the Beyond Sport Summit & Awards] the last couple years, and we’ve always built our networks and the way Beyond Sport recognises those shortlisted and in addition to promoting those who are doing great work has always benefited us and other organisations.”
Seren Fryatt - Executive Director, L.A.C.E.S. - Courageous use of Sport Award
Platform
"We are really going to use this as a platform to catapult the work we’ve been doing and really set the stage for success and continue to build off the strong partnerships we have”.
Nadia Moreno - Technical Director, A Ganar, Partners of the Americas - Barclays Sport for Employment Award
"With beyond sport behind us, we are just going to soar. And I am so excited about the network that it’s provided and the way our organisation can grow because of it.”
Seren Fryatt - Executive Director, L.A.C.E.S. - Courageous use of Sport Award
Strategic Support & Funding
“Being a Beyond Sport Winner has proved the transformative moment for our work, giving us a much larger platform to broadcast from and connecting us to the funding and knowledge we've needed to grow.”
Tim Conibear - Founder & Director, Waves for Change - Sport for Health
"This is absolutely amazing for us because the funding for the project was coming to an end and we were going to have to stop working on the project…. so this is definitely going to brighten a lot of smiles and help us continue the project in 2016.”
Fatuma Adan - Founder and MD, Breaking the Silence using Football, HODI - Sport for Social Inclusion