Changing Lives Through Sport and Youth Work...
What we do
Support Through Sport is a registered charity which supports young people aged 8-18, diverting them away from negative influences such as youth offending, ASB, violence, gang culture and knife crime. Through an innovative, youth-led approach, Support Through Sport harnesses the power of sport to empower disadvantaged youth and create safer communities, where young people can thrive.
Tranai Todd, 21, is the founder and CEO of Support Through Sport. Tranai founded Support Through Sport at the age of 17 from direct experience of the power that sport and youth work has, in supporting young people to overcome adversity.
The regional organisation, based in Nottingham, delivers sport-based intervention, mentoring, and progressions programmes to thousands of disadvantaged young people, empowering them to develop pro-social behaviours and providing a lasting positive impact.
Our Mission
We believe every young person deserves the chance to grow. Through our physical activity programmes – especially football and boxing – we help them shift their perspectives, build confidence, and develop into motivated role models and leaders. Our goal is to upskill and mentor youth, equipping them with essential skills, attributes, and experiences for lifelong development.
We work at the intersection of sport and youth work, enabling excellent engagement combined with meaningful support for disadvantaged young people. Reaching underserved and underrepresented communities which are likely to face additional barriers, our engagement is a core strategic component and lays the foundation for our impactful work.
Coupling a youth-led and sport-based approach, whilst valuing lived experience, our ability to engage with those identified as ‘hard to reach’ is uniquely powerful.
Young people are at the heart of our organisation. We’re committed to empowering the next generation to lead, influence decision-making, and create positive change in their communities. Ensuring their voices are not only heard but truly listened to is central to our mission.
We believe young people are part of the solution, and by placing trust in them – with the right support and guidance – they can lead the way. Our work at Support Through Sport is driven by a passion to create safe, inclusive spaces and build meaningful relationships that help young people grow, thrive, and achieve their full potential.
We aim to support the eradication of the negative influences which affect our young people and their communities. Negative influences such as serious violence, gang culture and knife crime are responsible for the loss of young lives across the UK. At Support Through Sport, we have seen first hand the perils of such negative influences and the destructive divide they create in our most disadvantaged communities.
Our theory of change directly outlines how our sport plus approach can have such a life-changing impact for young people at-risk. As a collective, we endeavour to do all that we can to tackle such prevalent societal challenges.
Our Vision
To use the power of sport and youth work combined, to create safer communities, where young people can thrive. We will not stop until all disadvantaged young people have access to quality sport-based youth provision, positive role models and the opportunities they deserve.