The Welsh Sports Foundation (WSF) is a national charity committed to removing financial barriers to sport and physical activity for children and young people, up to age 25.
Designed for Wales, the WSF has been created to ensure it can work alongside Welsh Government, Sport Wales and National Governing Bodies of Sport in Wales, to create an innovative solution to help tackle child poverty in Wales. The WSF’s vision is to create a healthy and happy Wales, where every individual child and young person is able to participate in sport and physical activity, where removing the financial barriers will make it happen. In levelling the playing field, the WSF will ensure that no child is left on the sidelines.
The initial objective of the WSF is to concentrate efforts on achieving 3 main goals:
Creating a national sports kit and equipment recycling programme
Introducing Sports Activity Vouchers which can be used towards the costs associated with sports participation such as weekly subs and transport costs
Developing a National Endowment Fund for Sport in Wales
How can you help us?
The WSF is seeking seed funding from a number of founder donors. Our aim is to attract £1.5m. £500k of this will be invested in the WSF’s infrastructure and establishing its core activities, which will primarily focus on the creation of a digital sports voucher scheme and a recycling programme. The remaining £1m will be used to create a National Endowment for Sport in Wales, the first of its kind for sport in the UK.
Founder donors would be recognised publicly in the creation of this endowment.
Using these founding donations, the WSF has set an ambitious target of building a £10m Endowment as part of creating a modern, digital savvy 21st century Charitable Foundation.
Why do we need the WSF?
Based on research, the WSF has identified the specific further support needed to fully realise the Vision for Sport in Wales—a nation where everyone can have a lifetime enjoyment of sport… (and) an active nation with as many people as possible inspired to be active through sport.
As acknowledged in world-leading Welsh Government policy and legislation, access to, and participation in, sport and other physical activity for children and young people is essential for the wellbeing of future generations. However, without a targeted commitment to overcoming the real barriers they face, children and young people from low-income backgrounds across Wales will fall even further behind.
Our Founder Donors
We are incredibly grateful for the support of the following organisations who, through their generosity, have helped establish the Welsh Sports Foundation…
