Our Mission, Vision & Values
STRONGER
Encouragement is used to engage underrepresented groups or hard to reach young people on the streets in parks or troubled areas. Encouragement, to participate in sporting and recreational activities and encouragement to move away from areas in which anti-social behaviour (ASB) is happening. Sports Alive believe that this type of approach can help with a reduction in (ASB) and helps to build a stronger relationship with young people. Creating programs that encourage Intergenerational work within communities that build aspirations, respect and pride in our areas and the wider city.
safer
To strive to build positive relationships between young people and the communities where they live. This allows young people to feel safe and have a positive influence and voice for all to feel safe, stable, and accepted. We believe by creating these relationships, helps to reduce risk, ASB and allows everyone to live positively side by side. We encourage and provide cross border projects so the young people can feel safer moving around the city, this approach also help reduces the risks of exploitation by opening up further opportunities, positive relationships, resources, and services.
healthier
Our engagement through activities, allows us to have the conversations around healthier lifestyles and healthier minds. Conversation around being healthier, through sporting activities, exercise, and movement, changing our eating habits, and conversations around self-care, healthy relationships, and personal development, helps us with our mental health. These conversations are achieved through projects, our group work, targeted projects and 1-1 sessions.
Sports Alive believes strongly in -
The following rights are of equal importance to every child. Every child has the right to:
- Relax and play
- Freedom of expression
- Be safe from violence
- An education
- Protection of identity
- Sufficient standard of living
- Know their rights
- Health and health services
Sports Alive sees itself as -
• Caring and respecting people’s individuality
• Lead in reducing anti-social behaviours – youth crime.
• Highly trained and experienced staff
• Promoting people’s rights
• Enabling and empowering people to act.
• Maintaining people’s confidentiality (subject to safeguarding issues)
• Valuing the service users and their contribution to the services provided
• Non-condemnatory, judging situations not people.
• Independent of statutory services
• Seeking and gaining the respect of professional colleagues
• Working consultatively and collaboratively
• Open and communicative
• Knowledgeable, with a “can-do” approach to problem-solving
• Living wage employers
• Employers who support our staff with benefits like mental health and HR support
• Regular personal development training and support opportunities
• Equal opportunities employer