The Alliance of Sport's James Mapstone led a 'Twitter takeover' in partnership with the Sport for Development Coalition and ConnectSport on Monday December 17.

Premiership Rugby's flagship education and employability programme HITZ is celebrating its tenth anniversary.

3Pillars has expanded its offering to adults and young people in the criminal justice system to include qualifications and employment in the fitness and wellbeing industry.

Read our Co-Founder and Chair James Mapstone's guest blog on sport's role in crime prevention for ConnectSport.

A football league is being launched for young people in Banbury to raise awareness of the dangers of county lines – set up by two men with lived experience of its devastating effects.

Read how the award-winning charity Boxing Futures use the sport to tackle mental health, wellbeing and social isolation with people in and around the criminal justice system.

Gloves Not Gunz is an organisation with all the ingredients that go into a successful sport-based intervention – and yet another example of the power of boxing to reduce crime.

Sport's full potential in reducing crime will only be unlocked with a joined-up approach and more risk-taking across criminal justice, a DCMS Committee has been told.

The Alliance of Sport's "sports club" project is giving incarcerated young offenders the opportunity to develop "physically, behaviourally and psychologically," says researcher Dr Juliette Stebbings.

Fight for Peace has been awarded a National Lottery grant to train community organisations in how to use sport to prevent youth violence.