Across the UK, superb sport and recreation charities are transforming lives by boosting physical and mental health, building inclusive communities and giving young people the chance to shine.
By championing wellbeing and tackling inequality, they’re not only changing lives but also easing the strain on public services and saving the UK millions of pounds every year.
This is why we love teaming up with amazing sport and recreation organisations, as well as helping other charities bring their physical activity events, services and campaigns to life.
How we work with sport and recreation charities
If we team up with you, we’ll kick things off by diving deep — getting to know your work, your brand, and the people you’re championing.
Next, we’ll get match-fit: exploring your brief in detail, setting clear goals, spotting opportunities and challenges, and planning a winning strategy.
From there, our creatives get to work, weaving Yarn’s five golden threads – stimulating, moving, accurate, relatable and trustworthy – into the stories they create for you.
Throughout your project, we’ll stay in your corner – answering questions fast, offering expert guidance, and keeping everything on track and on budget.
Because when you’re one of our clients, we play to win together – delivering the results you need while making your Yarn experience seamless, inspiring and genuinely enjoyable.
Our sport and recreation clients
Our sport and recreation projects
"Yarn did a great job refreshing and rebranding some of our content. They really got what we wanted and the style and look we were going for, and the refreshed content fits in with the rest of our brand and website. Laura and Beki were a pleasure to work with – they were super responsive and clear about each step, making sure we always knew what was going on and answering many, many questions! We look forward to working with Yarn again in future. Thank you!"
Sally Watson-Jones, Communications Assistant
Bikeability
Did you know!
Over
25%
of adults in England (about 11.9 million people) do less than 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week.1
The overall social value of community sport and physical activity across the UK was estimated to be
107.2 billion
in 2022/23.1
Active lifestyles are credited with
30 million
fewer GP visits and 375,000 fewer people being diagnosed with depression each year.3
Sported is the UK’s largest grassroots sport charity in the UK, working with a network of over
5,000
community groups, youth clubs and sports clubs.4