Awards and recognition

As our success stories highlight, Street League’s unique sports for employment programme has a proven track record and is making a real impact across the UK.

As our delivery increases and our reputation grows, we have received recognition for our work in tackling youth unemployment.

Some of the awards we’ve won or been shortlisted for are listed below:

2017 Winner Third Sector Excellence Awards – Best Annual Report

2016 Winner - Removing Barriers- SURF Scotland

2016 Winner Social Impact Award – Social Enterprise UK

2015 Winner Best Youth Employment Initiative – Football for Good Awards

2012 Winner of the P&G UK Impact Award in association with the Daily Telegraph

2010 Winner of Best Social Enterprise – Lambeth Business Awards

Other awards we have been shortlisted for:

2016 Shortlisted for the Scottish Social Enterprise of the Year

2016 Shortlisted for the Social Enterprise UK Awards for:

Social Impact Award
Education, Training and Jobs Award

2015 Shortlisted for the Barclays Sport For Employability And Enterprise Award

We're also very proud to have a talented and passionate team at Street League who have been nominated or won awards in their own right.

Matt Stevenson-Dodd, Chief Executive

Nottingham University Business School MBA

2016 and 2015 Social CEOs - Top Charity Chief Executives On Social Media

The Guardian - Top 5 People To Follow On Twitter

Lindsey MacDonald, Managing Director

Nominated for Women of the Future Awards - read more

Scholarship at CASS Business School

Lesley Caron, Shortlisted for Financial Director of the Year

Business Finance Awards 2016, Public and Voluntary Sector Shortlist

Sara McCraight, Top 30 Accelerating Entrepreneurs

Future Leader Awards 2017 - WACL

Ernst & Young Global Entrepreneur Awards 2015

Marketing Academy Scholarship 2015-16

Latest

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Street League embraces 'The F Word'

Upshot, a digital impact measurement organisation, and the Sports Think Tank, an independent think tank dedicated to UK sporting policy, have joined forces to curate ‘The F Word’, an event which seeks to explore how third sector organisations can work together to learn from their Failures and develop best practice strategies for dealing with them.
Corporate Partners

Our corporate partners are essential to Street League. Not only do they fund our sport for employment academies, which help hundreds of young people move into work, education or training each year, but they also get involved with the employability process. Our corporate partners attend mock interview sessions, C.V. workshops, job fairs, and, most importantly, engage with our young people through football, dance, and fitness.
DHL

In 2018, Street League is delighted to be working with DHL supporting unemployed young people across the UK. Working with the DHL Foundation and DHL Express on creating paid work placements, enabling young people to experience working in the logistics sector and gaining a real insight into life at the most international company in the world.

Street League CEO elected to Guardian Public Leaders Advisory Board 2017

We are delighted to announce that Matt Stevenson-Dodd, CEO of Street League, has been elected to the Editorial Advisory Board for the Guardian Public Leaders Network.

Our programmes

We know that not everyone succeeds at school, but we also know that everyone can succeed outside of it. At Street League, you can play sport everyday, learn key skills and get the qualifications you need to get a job and get paid. It’s not about having mad football skills or dancing like Beyonce, it’s about having the determination to move into work (and having fun at the same time!).
London

Looking for job vacancies, work experience, apprenticeships or training in London? Looking to find a career that suits you? Whether you’re looking for full-time, part-time or temporary work, or gaining a place at college or a new qualification, Street League can help you achieve your goals. In the past twelve months, we’ve helped over 1,700 young people find work and training in retail, hospitality, warehousing, customer service and the sports industry.
Birmingham

Looking for job vacancies, work experience, apprenticeships or training in Birmingham? Looking to find a career that suits you? Whether you’re looking for full-time, part-time or temporary work, or gaining a place at college or a new qualification, Street League can help you achieve your goals. In the past twelve months we’ve helped over 1,700 young people find work and training in retail, hospitality, warehousing, construction, customer service and the sports industry.
Manchester

Looking for job vacancies, work experience, apprenticeships or training in Manchester? Looking to find a career that suits you? Whether you’re looking for full-time, part-time or temporary work, or gaining a place at college or a new qualification, Street League can help you achieve your goals. In the past twelve months, we’ve helped over 1,700 young people find work and training in retail, hospitality, warehousing, construction, customer service and the sports industry.
Apprenticeships

Are you looking to find an apprenticeship or apply for an apprenticeship? Or are you an employer looking for support with training your newly hired apprentices? At Street League, we are committed to helping unemployed young people move into sustainable careers. The rise of traineeships, apprenticeships and modern apprenticeships has seen us adapt our employability programme to ensure we are supporting young people and employers to make the most of apprenticeships.
About us

Street League is the UK’s leading sport for employment charity. Our mission is to see an end to youth unemployment in the UK, and our award-winning programmes have supported 5,851 young people into work since 2010.
Get an apprenticeship

At Street League we support unemployed 16-24 year olds to find a sustainable careers, including employment, apprenticeships, traineeships, college and other more specific training programmes. We believe apprenticeships are an excellent way to start your career given that they allow you to earn while you learn, combining on the job training with further study (usually one day per week).
Liverpool
Glasgow

Looking for job vacancies, work experience, apprenticeships or training in Glasgow? Looking to find a career that suits you? Whether you’re looking for full-time, part-time or temporary work, or gaining a place at college or a new qualification, Street League can help you achieve your goals. In the past twelve months, we’ve helped over 1,700 young people find work and training in retail, hospitality, warehousing, construction, customer service and the sports industry.
Impact Dashboard

Welcome to our new Interactive Impact Dashboard. We are committed to transparency and have developed this online tool so you can see exactly how we’re doing throughout the year. You can see exactly how many young people we have been able to support, as well as those we haven’t been able to help and why that is. We’ll upload new data every month.