Conference Awards 2025
Lead Well - Move Well - Live Well
Awards Dinner - Tuesday 25 March
Conference - Wednesday 26 March
Telford International Centre
The Youth Sport Trust Awards 2025 celebrates schools, settings, trusts and individuals who, working alongside the Youth Sport Trust over the past year, have made a real and impactful change to the lives of young people.
The Awards will be presented at the Youth Sport Trust Awards Dinner 2025 on Tuesday 25 March at Telford International Centre, on the eve of the Youth Sport Trust Conference 2025. Tickets are available for £65.00 for Youth Sport Trust members and £79.00 for non-members. Click here to find out more.
The drinks reception starts at 18:15, with guests seated by 18:45. The Awards Dinner will conclude around 23:30.
Your speaker and host for the evening:
Clare Balding - Speaker
Clare Balding is an award-winning broadcaster and author. She has worked on every Olympic Games since 1996 and on every Paralympics since 2000. Clare won BAFTA’s Special Award for her work on London 2012 and continues to present major events in sport, factual documentaries, and Royal events, including commentary of the King’s Coronation for BBC One. A passionate campaigner for equality and women’s sport, Clare is also a best-selling author of numerous book and children’s novels. In June 2022, it was announced Clare had been awarded a CBE for her services to Sport and Charity which she was honoured to receive at Buckingham Palace in December 2022.
Radzi Chinyanganya - Host
Radzi Chinyanganya, TV personality, presenter, and podcaster, has supported the Youth Sport Trust since 2017. As the author of 'Move Like A Lion', he is passionate about inspiring young children to embrace movement from an early age. Having attended seven schools, sport became his universal language, helping him build connections and find consistency in life. Radzi believes sport offers health benefits, essential life skills, and pure joy. Committed to ensuring all young people have access to sport, he actively supports the Youth Sport Trust’s mission to provide opportunities for those who need it most.
The award categories are:
- Outstanding Early Years Practice - Awarded to a setting that has placed physical literacy at the heart of their curriculum, ensuring that learners’ physical, social and emotional health is central.
- Outstanding Multi-Academy Trust Practice - Awarded to a Multi-Academy Trust that places pupil and staff wellbeing at the heart of the trust, delivering a co-ordinated approach to leveraging PE, play and sport to support resilient learners.
- Outstanding Primary Practice - Awarded to a primary school that has used PE, sport and play to build a foundation for learning through prioritising the health and happiness of their young people.
- Outstanding Secondary Practice - Awarded to a secondary school that has used PE, sport and play to build back healthier, happier and more resilient young people.
- Outstanding Inclusive Practice - Awarded to a special, Pupil Referral Unit or Alternative Provision school that that has used PE, sport and play to re-engage young people, many of whom face varying complex challenges, in their education outside of a mainstream setting.
- Outstanding Contribution to your Place - Awarded to an Early Years setting, primary, secondary, special school or organisation which has harnessed the power of PE, sport and play to develop ways of working which bring local stakeholders and people from their community together to build healthier, happier and more resilient young people.
- Campbell Award - Network Leader / Local Influencer Award - Awarded to a network leader who has influenced change in their area that has positively impacted on schools and young people through PE, sport and play.
