Sale Sharks
Categories of Work: Advice, support & information services, Children, young people & families, Community development, Education/training, Employment/work, Health and well-being, Homelessness, Lunch clubs, Mental health services, Mentoring, Social activities, Sports and leisure, Volunteering, Youth work
Who do you work with?: All Client Groups
Organisation description: Sharks Community Trust is the charitable arm of Sale Sharks, the North’s only Premiership Rugby club. The charity was established in 2010 and its objective is to use rugby and sport for the wider community benefit, drawing on the core values of rugby, which are teamwork, respect, enjoyment, discipline and sportsmanship, to deliver a range of community engagement programmes.
The Trust works across the whole of North West England from Cumbria down to Staffordshire, and across Greater Manchester and Merseyside, and is governed by a board of seven trustees.
Sharks Community Trust currently employs twenty-five full-time staff and two part-time staff who are experienced at working with a range of people, of all ages and abilities. Their aim is for their passion to be passed on to the next generation and for Sale Sharks to be used to educate, inspire and change the lives of local people.
The Trust has three departments; Community Engagement, Education and Rugby Development. Within these three departments this is a wide variety of programmes ranging from our HITZ and Advantage programme which provides qualifications and transition into college or employment for 150 young people aged 16-18 not in Education, Employment or Training each year. Shark School a project which works with 14-16 year old’s you are disengaged from mainstream education. Our schools' team deliver several cross-curricular education programmes in the school including literacy, numeracy and healthy eating programmes in the classroom. Projects including Walking Rugby and Sharks Team Talk for people experiencing dementia, social isolation and/or loneliness. A mental health workshop is delivered to businesses across the North West to raise awareness around mental health and wellbeing within the workplace. The Trust also runs a project called Sharks Forces, that works with ex-service personnel and their families to assist with the transition from service to civilian. Whilst our Rugby Development team work with under-presented groups in the community to increase the number of people involved in physical activity and to open rugby up to new audiences.
The Trust works across the whole of North West England from Cumbria down to Staffordshire, and across Greater Manchester and Merseyside, and is governed by a board of seven trustees.
Sharks Community Trust currently employs twenty-five full-time staff and two part-time staff who are experienced at working with a range of people, of all ages and abilities. Their aim is for their passion to be passed on to the next generation and for Sale Sharks to be used to educate, inspire and change the lives of local people.
The Trust has three departments; Community Engagement, Education and Rugby Development. Within these three departments this is a wide variety of programmes ranging from our HITZ and Advantage programme which provides qualifications and transition into college or employment for 150 young people aged 16-18 not in Education, Employment or Training each year. Shark School a project which works with 14-16 year old’s you are disengaged from mainstream education. Our schools' team deliver several cross-curricular education programmes in the school including literacy, numeracy and healthy eating programmes in the classroom. Projects including Walking Rugby and Sharks Team Talk for people experiencing dementia, social isolation and/or loneliness. A mental health workshop is delivered to businesses across the North West to raise awareness around mental health and wellbeing within the workplace. The Trust also runs a project called Sharks Forces, that works with ex-service personnel and their families to assist with the transition from service to civilian. Whilst our Rugby Development team work with under-presented groups in the community to increase the number of people involved in physical activity and to open rugby up to new audiences.
Contact details
Sale Sharks High Performance Centre, Manchester, M31 4AB