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Date posted 20 Jan 2022
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GLL Sport Foundation Applications Open Until 20th February 2022

GLL – the UK’s largest leisure charitable social enterprise - has once again shown its commitment to improving health, wellbeing and opportunity in the communities it works in, by supporting the next generation of athletes to the tune of £1.2 million, via The GLL Sport Foundation (GSF). 

The GSF is the UK’s largest independent athlete support programme. Since it launched in 2008, the programme has provided over 18,000 athlete awards, with a total financial value of £12.1 million.

The foundation provides athletes across 65 areas of the UK with financial help, physiotherapy, a ‘Better’ Gym membership and more.  In the wake of a difficult two years, GLL continued with the programme in 2020 and 2021, investing in the development of local talent aspiring to follow previous supported athletes such as Susie Rodgers, Dina Asher-Smith and Lutalo Muhammad. 

Last year 63% of supported athletes were aged under 21 and the programme supports athletes across all Olympic, Paralympic, Deaf and Special Olympic sports. Most importantly 96% of the athletes supported do not receive any other funding.

GSF athlete Joseph Choong won the Gold Medal in the Modern Pentathlon at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games. Commenting on the support he has received from the Foundation over the years, he said “I have been a part of GSF since 2013 – they’ve been there to support large parts of my career and now seen me through to become an Olympic Champion. The importance of the GSF can’t be overstated.  I look forward to helping the programme inspire younger generations into the future.”

Applications for the programme are open until February 20th 2022 and athletes from the Sutton area are encouraged to apply. Last year, the GLL Sport Foundation supported 20 local Sutton based athletes including GB 400m hurdler Chris McAlister!

If you are an athlete competing within performance sport at a regional to international level and you have a national ranking and a top 8 finish in a regional event then we would encourage you to apply now by following the link below:

https://www.gllsportfoundation.org/