Hartlepool Sport
“To support a culture of excellence, active lifestyles,
a love of learning and community service”
What We Do...
Hartlepool Sport is here to support the amazing work of our sports clubs and providers.
We work strategically with local government, the NHS and other statutory services, and across the voluntary sector to see where opportunities are for partnership working and joining things up. ​We work operationally to support local clubs, providers and partners. We also help activate community spaces, and support the preventative agenda.
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What we do can be distilled into three broad themes:
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Clubs, Networks & Partnerships,
Urban Sport & Urban Play,
Health, Movement and Lifestyle.​
Clubs, Networks & Partnerships
Urban Sport & Urban Play
Health, Movement and Lifestyle,
"To create a network of clubs, sharing best practise, club development and facilities"
To help sports clubs do what they do best and level up.
Helping with Delivery, Governance, Sustainability and Growth
“We are stronger together than we are alone.”
Our success is driven by the hearts, minds, and souls of our community.
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Partnerships are always a priority because we know that we can achieve more by working together.
"To activate our open spaces, bringing the fun back into our communities"
To use sport & physical activity as a way of engaging with our communities
To bring fun activities, games, play and sport to our local parks, beaches and other open and urban spaces
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To learn from our local communities, and support them to improve their local places
"To utilise sports clubs & providers, working with a wide range of partners* to help deliver on the preventative agenda"
Reducing health and wellbeing inequalities
Tackling loneliness and depression
Increasing life chances
Aiming for long term generational change (inactive people)
Creating and supporting sustainable, well paid jobs
To ‘have a seat at the table’ as an equal partner of the Public Sector
Meet the team
Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
Our team know sport, movement and youth work.
Some of us run our own successful clubs too, so we've probably faced many of the same challenges that our partners face - this gives us real world, practical experience to support and get stuff done.
Origins...
The PFC Trust was set-up with a broad mission of ‘helping Hartlepool people’. Within a short time, it was identified that ‘Sport’ was a major element of the Trust’s focus. Parallel to the Trust being created, a series of discussions were held between Hartlepool Borough Council, Hartlepool United Football Club, Hartlepool College of Further Education, #LoveHartlepool representatives and The PFC Trust.
Subsequently, on 10th February 2020, The PFC Trust board agreed to carry out a scoping study to discover the best use of its resources within sport in Hartlepool, to support clubs and to support the preventative agenda for health and wellbeing, with the ultimate aim of making the sport-arm self-sustaining. The 12 Sport England Local Delivery Pilots were studied, with key themes and ideas that could be useful to Hartlepool, being built into the scoping study.
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Covid-19
As we know, the Covid-19 pandemic changed everything. "Hartlepool Sport" early stage networks were utilised to help town efforts to support those shielding at home. Later, we ensured that the complicated re-launch restrictions, and government support packages were accessible to clubs.
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Following the completion of the scoping study, and presentation to the PFC Trust board, Hartlepool Sport CIC was established on 1st September 2020. The broad ambition being to bring together networks of individuals and organisations, and aim to replicate some of the Local Delivery Pilot work, albeit on a shoe-string budget, and ultimately secure more investment into the town.
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After five years of working in partnership, May 1st 2025 saw Hartlepool Sport become independent of the charity - see our news page for the press release.
