Barclays spaces for sports wins award- 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00
Barclays Spaces for Sports and FIFA Football for Hope were both recognised last night with awards at the Global Sports Forum in Barcelona.
Barclays Spaces for Sports won the Sports Business awards whilst FIFA wasa presented with the award for Philanthropy and Cooperation.
The two-and-a-half day conference involved more than 1,000 participants from 50 countries, taking part in debates involving more than 70 speakers from six different continents.
The awards recognised programmes that are examples of the role of sport across various categories – Education; Sport Business; Health; Sport, Culture and Creativity; Sport in the City; Major Sport Events; Philanthropy and Cooperation; and Geopolitics.
Since its launch in the UK in 2004 with partners the Football Foundation and Groundwork, Barclays Spaces for Sports has created 200 sports sites in disadvantaged areas across the UK benefiting half a million people.
In 2008 it was extended globally with further sites and projects already established in South Africa, the United States, the UK, Spain and Zambia.
Barclays is also working with charity Compassion for Migrant Children in China to benefit a migrant community in Beijing.
Barclays has committed more than £37 million to Barclays Spaces for Sports since its inception, along with a further £30m donated and raised by partners the Football Foundation.
FIFA’s Football for Hope is headed by FIFA and streetfootballworld, and has been implementing social and human development programmes since 2005, using football as a tool to promote participation and dialogue.
Africaid’s WhizzKids United also won the Global Sports Forum award for best Sport and Health programme.
WhizzKids United based in South Africa - its vision is to provide HIV prevention, care, support and treatment to youths worldwide through football.
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