Sport and physical activity are at the heart of an innovative project aimed at helping rehabilitate young people held at Medway Secure Training Centre in Kent. 

Read how HFE's partnership with the Prisoners' Education Trust is offering incarcerated offenders a priceless chance of rehabilitation and employment in the health and fitness industry.

The 'Alternative Lives’ prison programme delivered by Exeter City, Plymouth Argyle and Cardiff City FC community trusts has hugely benefited participants, coaches and prison staff.

When it comes to working with people caught up in crime, ‘collaboration’ and ‘multi-agency approach’ are modern buzz words. No-one embodies those philosophies better than the Met's PC Jason Hill.

The Alliance of Sport is delighted to see recognition in the Youth Justice Board’s 2019-20 business plan of the role sport plays in supporting young people in the criminal justice system. 

The Burngreave area of Sheffield may be top and bottom of all the “wrong lists” but it has recently become a showcase for the power of sport to empower and unite local communities.

The Alliance of Sport is proud to have contributed to the new DCMS Committee report, ‘Changing Lives: the social impact of participation in culture and sport’.

Alliance of Sport Trustee Professor Rosie Meek introduces a new Ministry of Justice toolkit that measures the effectiveness of programmes supporting desistance from crime.

The outstanding work of Positive Futures in using sport as a tool to reduce crime is expanding across south-east Wales, with new partnerships and collaborations boosting their impact.

Alliance of Sport members Boxing Futures have showcased their ever-growing impact with a powerful video depicting one young person's transformation through sport.

Pete Bell is using the knowledge and experience from his ‘Step Out, Stay Out’ prison football programme to organise a sports event to foster community cohesion on the Clifton estate in Nottingham.

Professor Rosie Meek, an Alliance of Sport advisor, recently spoke to Radio New Zealand about her research into the benefits of sport and physical activity in prisons. Listen to it here.