Beyond Sport Awards 2012 Open For Entries

Beyond Sport

Beyond Sport, the global organisation that promotes, develops and funds the use of sport to create positive social change, is delighted to announce that entries are now open for this year’s Beyond Sport Awards – with the winners to be unveiled at the Beyond Sport Summit, to be held in London in July.

Designed to recognise and reward those individuals and organisations using sport to drive forward social change, the Beyond Sport Awards are made up of 12 categories covering the entire sporting spectrum of health, social inclusion, corporate and social responsibility, and team and federation community engagement.

The Awards categories are split into three clear sections – Community Awards; Corporation, Team, and Federation Awards; and the Judges’ Awards. The winners of the six Community Awards will each receive funding as well as a Business Support Package worth hundreds of thousands of dollars made up of strategic consultancy, marketing and advertising support, and more.

The Awards will close on Friday 6th April, but entrants are encouraged to submit their entry form early, as promotional and exposure opportunities will be available to programmes through Beyond Sport’s high-traffic online outlets. Entry forms can be downloaded from www.beyondsport.org.

A shortlist of projects in each of the Awards categories will be revealed in April, with representatives invited to London for the fourth annual Beyond Sport Summit in July, where the winners will be unveiled.

The Awards winners are selected by the Beyond Sport Ambassadors – a group of high-profile individuals chaired by former British Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Tony Blair, and including HRH Prince Faisal Al Hussein of Jordan, former South African football captain Lucas Radebe; and multi-Olympic gold medallists Michael Johnson and Sergey Bubka.

Previous winners of the Awards have ranged from a project that provides safe spaces to play sports in a gang-stricken area of Chicago; to a programme in India that works with victims of human trafficking through dance and movement therapy; to a surfing project that works with street children in South Africa; to a Venezuelan initiative that uses rugby as a tool to dismantle gangs.