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Projects | SUNEE Street League

 

SUNEE has been working with organisations involved with homelessness and drugs and alcohol treatment for a number of years.  Our first major project entitled Second Chance provided clients with opportunities to access weekly football and multi-sport coaching sessions.

This programme has proved to be extremely successful, and research on the project can be downloaded from the links below. (The research was done at the time of the pilot project - Drug Intervention Project (DIP))

Always keen to develop and improve our projects, SUNEE is now working in partnership with Street League, a sport for development charity.  Street League’s vision is to transform the lives of disadvantaged young people and adults in the UK using the power of sport. We achieve this through a structured football and education programme that helps build confidence, improve health, extend social networks, and develop skills towards long-term education, employment and independence.

Our players come from a range of disadvantaged backgrounds including homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, displacement, unemployment, crime, learning difficulties and mental health. Most players are put in contact with Street League through referral agents such as homeless hostels, job centres, drug rehabilitation projects and refugee teams.

For more information on Street League please click here 

SUNEE are now running the Street League programme in the North East of England – SUNEE Street League.

For more details on this programme please click here. 

As part of the SUNEE Street League programme we run weekly football coaching sessions, weekly multi sport sessions, monthly matchdays and quarterly regional multi sport festivals.  All these activities are free of charge to participants who, by accessing, these sessions earn credits which they can use to purchase SUNEE Street League kit.

In the North East the Street League model is very much about offering a variety of sporting opportunities.  We appreciate that football isn’t for everyone and try and cater the opportunities we offer to accommodate all.

Directions 2 Work

Directions 2 Work (D2W) offers a range of personal development opportunities.  Usinn sport as a common language, the aim is to help people move towards education and employment by enhancing confidence, gaining formal qualifications and developing valuable life skills such as self-discipline, teamwork and communication.

For more information, please contact neil.hurren@streetleague.co.uk

Funding for this strand of our work is provided by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), Football Foundation, Northern Rock Foundation and Comic Relief.

For more information, please contact Emma Piercy on 0191 515 3662 or by e-mail emma.piercy@sunderland.ac.uk

 News articles relating to SUNEE Street League can be found below.  Just click on the link for the full story.

Match Day South - 26th November

Match Day North - 10th November

Football saved my life

D2W (DIRECTIONS 2 WORK)

Downloads:

Team Durham Newcastle University Sport Northumbria University of Sunderland University of Teesside
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