Corporate Responsibility

The London Youth Games

Sport is an important element in community cohesion and individual well-being. It promotes feelings of self-worth, helps encourage healthy lifestyles, teaches team skills and promotes social cohesion.

The London Youth Games is Europe’s largest youth sports programme. It covers 33 sports and engages over 25,000 London school children from around the 32 boroughs and the City of London.

The London Youth Games Board aims to double participation levels by 2012. Balfour Beatty as the lead sponsor for the Games, for the period 2008 – 2013, has become its long-term partner, contributing over £1.7 million of core funding, distributing grants to boroughs with outstanding ideas for grass roots sports development, working closely with the Games organisers to increase the Games profile and launching a volunteering scheme to enable London-based Balfour Beatty employees to give their time and talents to improving participants’ experience.

Last year, London Borough of Newham hosted a mini-games for 750 young people. The full story can be accessed in our case studies section.