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Sport
4 Life is
a charity
dedicated
to changing
lives
through
the power
of sport
in Birmingham.
We provide
sports
activities,
exercise
classes,
and healthy
lifestyle
projects
citywide,
working
exclusively
in deprived
areas.
Our current
projects
include:

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MORE SPORT
Working in
partnership
with a
local primary
care trust,
we are
delivering
an expansive
sports
project
designed
to tackle
rising
levels
of inactivity
in Birmingham’s
inner cities.
We have administered £20,000
of grants to
grass-roots
community sports
clubs, we have
set up 225
new sports
and dance sessions
in deprived
areas, we have
supported 55
sports coaches
to gain coaching
qualifications,
and we have
engaged thousands
of disadvantaged
youngsters. 
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LADYWOOD AND SOHO GAMES
In the deprived
inner city
wards of
Ladywood
and Soho,
primary
school
children
are often
marginalised
and excluded
from opportunities
to participate
in sport
and exercise.
Not when
Sport 4
Life UK
is around
though!
We deliver
two gigantic
school
sports
days annually,
engaging
18 primary
schools
and over
500 children
in a whirlwind
day of
competitive
activities
including
football,
basketball,
athletics,
and uni-hockey
to name
but a few. |
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EXERCISE 4 LIFE
Our programme
of professional
aerobics
instruction
and healthy
lifestyles
education
has been
designed
specifically
for disadvantaged
women,
especially
those who
find it
difficult
to engage
with mainstream
exercise
provision.
Our aim
is to help
participants
to improve
their cardio-vascular
fitness,
to lose
weight,
and to
feel more
healthy
and confident
in themselves.
We have
delivered
170 classes
over the
last year
and have
helped
over 150
women to
get active
and lose
weight. 
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ACTIVE KIDS
Poor health,
obesity
and inactivity
can be
big problems
amongst
children
living
within
deprived,
inner city
estates.
That’s
why we
have partnered
with local
organisation
Runner
Beans and
developed
our Active
Kids classes – fun
physical
activity
games combined
with health-themed
lessons – designed
specifically
for children
most in need
of a health
and confidence
boost. We deliver
weekly classes
throughout
Birmingham,
working in
partnership
with schools
and Sure Start
Centres. |
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STREET SPORT
Our flagship
sports
outreach
project
provides
structured
sports
coaching
sessions
in inner-city
parks across
four highly
deprived
estates
in Birmingham,
engaging
hundreds
of underprivileged
children
and young
people
every week.
We use
sport as
the tool
to steer
participants
away from
lives of
crime,
anti-social
behaviour,
and low
self-esteem,
and to
develop
them into
individuals
who are
able to
achieve,
be healthy,
and make
a positive
contribution
to society. 
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ALL NATIONS FOOTBALL
All Nations
Football
is an initiative
that is
developing
opportunities
in football
for disadvantaged
men in
Birmingham,
including
refugees,
asylum
seekers
and recovering
drug users.
The project
uses football
as a tool
to better
lives,
and is
attended
by men
from all
over the
world – Sudan,
Iran, Afghanistan,
Togo, Ivory
Cost, Congo,
Ethiopia,
and Kuwait
to name
but a few – giving
rise to
the name “All
Nations
Football”.
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