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Creating Paid Roles to Expand Special Needs Sports
London, England, United Kingdom
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Aim
To provide 20 disadvantaged young people with training to gain special needs coaching qualifications and paid roles in inclusive basketball.
About Us
The London Basketball Association (LBA) is one of the few charities in London using basketball as a tool for social change, inclusion, and access to employment opportunities. Guided by our ethos — “Basketball is the game, social change is the mission” — we deliver year-round basketball activities that support young people to develop confidence, life skills, and pathways into paid work.
From weekly community sessions to leagues, camps, and events, LBA turns sports into a pathway for progression and financial independence.
The LBA has recently expanded its work to include a dedicated basketball programme for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), offering safe spaces to play, build friendships, and grow in confidence.
As part of our commitment to growing the grassroots SEND basketball space, we are launching a new employability-focused project that uses our SEND basketball sessions as a hub for training, paid work, and long-term financial opportunities.
Programme Overview
Creating Paid SEND Basketball Pathways Across London.
This project will support 20 young people across London to gain qualifications, specialist SEND training, and paid roles to support SEND-inclusive basketball programmes.
The programme combines training, mentoring, and real-world experience — enabling participants to move into paid sessional work and full-time positions, while strengthening SEND basketball provision across London.
What the Project Will Deliver
LBA will use its existing SEND basketball sessions as a development hub where participants will:
- Gain recognised basketball, safeguarding, and SEND-specific qualifications
- Receive structured SEND inclusion training
- Shadow experienced sessional staff and support live SEND sessions
- Progress into paid SEND sessional and full-time roles within LBA programmes and partner organisations.
Communities Fund Employee Giving has provided £600 of match funding
Communities Fund has provided £295 of match funding
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made