Research and Reports

Response to the call for evidence on the Department of Health and Social Care's Mental Health and Wellbeing Plan, led by the Sport, Mental Health and Wellbeing Steering Group of the Sport for Development Coalition. 

The Sport for Development Coalition worked with the national mental health charity Mind, Edge Hill University and Loughborough University to produce a policy brief and research report to highlight the role of physical activity, sport and sport for development in promoting movement and mental health following Covid-19.

Submission from the Sport for Development Coalition to the Government's 2021 Comprehensive Spending Review, call on the Chancellor to capitalise on the potential of sport and physical activity to act as a 'team player' in levelling up communities, tackling deprivation and building back better from the Covid-19 pandemic.

This submission sets out eight key policy considerations in response to the questions posed by the DCMS Select Committee Sport in our Communities Inquiry. They primarily focus on sustaining and enhancing the positive social impact of the community sport and physical activity, which is estimated to provide £85billion of social and economic value to the country.

• Read the full submissions on the DCMS Committee repository

This submission to the House of Lord's National Plan for Sport and Recreation Committee supports the development of coherent national policy and plans for sport and recreation. It sets out an argument for policy direction to be ambitious and transformative such that it is a catalyst for ‘a new social contract for sport and physical activity’.

• News article: Coalition director gives evidence to the Lord's National Plan for Sport and Recreation Committee

This report examines the impact that Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had on the Sport for Development sector from reduced funding and financial security, to a forced reduction and adaptation in delivery, and increased challenges in engaging participants.

This document, developed in 2015, aims to empower providers and funders of Sport for Development programmes to define a collective and sector-led understanding of how to improve outcomes for young people.