Description

What’s involved: This youth leadership initiative has been designed to provide young people from under-served communities from across the UK with the opportunity to develop valuable life and leadership skills through mentoring sessions delivered by inspirational athletes. We work with young people currently in year 9 who have been identified as being most at risk of not fulfilling their full potential. Schools will work with two cohorts of young people across three academic years (subject to funding).

Outcomes: The programme, through long term intervention, aims to improve young people's life chances, as well as their positive social engagement and their involvement in education by helping them to develop their confidence, aspirations, resilience and self-esteem through leadership in sport. Athlete Mentor sessions focus on developing key employability skills which are crucial beyond education. Sport and social action are both used as programme elements which allow the young people to apply skills in practice and influence something which is important to them.

For your school to take part in this programme you must meet the following eligibility criteria:

• Secondary school OR secondary level education provider (e.g. special schools, alternative provision schools, Pupil Referral Units)
• Based in one of the following areas of the UK: Tyne & Wear, Oldham, Stoke-on-Trent, Erdington, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Tower Hamlets, North Lanarkshire, Cardiff.

Duration: This programme takes place between September 2025 and July 2028 (subject to funding). The deadline for expressions of interest is 16 June 2025.

Find out more: about Set for Success on our website - click here.