Education outcomes vs sports – Headteachers face hard decisions

“The protection of school sport is necessary. The £162million saved from closing the School Sports Partnerships may be sent to schools with complete autonomy over how to spend it. This will leave head teachers up and down the land with some hard decisions. They will find themselves weighing up...

Why Is this Film Important?

In late 2010, we started shooting our documentary on young people in Tower Hamlets, aiming to show how sport has transformed these young lives – physically, mentally, socially, and economically. There are 450 school sports partnerships, 3,200 school sport coordinators (one for every secondary school), 18,000 primary link teachers...

Out of the Game

Against a backdrop of poverty, crime, and racial tensions, these young people have refused to conform to stereotypes, instead devoting their lives to teaching and inspiring a new generation of children in sports ranging from football to fencing.