How you can help

Smile Through Sport is a charity relying on volunteers, donations and local support. There are many ways you can get involved and support our work across the North East.

Donate Volunteer Funders

Smile Through Sport is a registered charity working within the North East region. Our work relies solely on donations and without the support of our donors we would be unable to continue our work.

Our current projects include:

Delivering sport and physical activities in community centres and residential homes to people who have never been able to be active before due to their disability
Hosting the biggest Boccia open in England for those with complex physical and learning disabilities
Creating activities, sessions and events for disabled people to be active and social with their peers

By donating to Smile Through Sport you are allowing us to continue our work and enabling disabled people to be active and part of a supportive community.

£3 allows a child or adult to attend a community Smile session.

£10 covers a participant’s entry into the Smile Boccia Open

£35 covers the hire of a community centre for 1 hour

£50 enables 1 Smile coach to deliver an 1 hour session; whether that’s in a care home, school, day centre or group

£400 allows 12 young people with learning disabilities to train to be sports leaders of the future

£1500 funds an after school coaching fee for a year

£3800 funds a community session for a year

£8000 funds 1 epic Smile Boccia Open Competition

To discuss corporate sponsorship and giving or if you would like to fundraise or complete a sponsored challenge for us please get in touch on info@smilethroughsport.com

Volunteer

Volunteers allow us to deliver more sessions in more places which ultimately enables disabled people to become active and part of a supportive community. We are always keen to hear from people who would like to volunteer with us.

Our volunteer roles:

Coaching assistant
This role is for those with an interest or experience in delivering sporting activity. You do not need to have formal qualifications for this role. It will be ideally suited to those studying sport leadership, coaching or development courses.
Sessional assistant
Ideal for those with care experience. These volunteers help to support our delivery staff to engage people with disabilities in activity. You will be asked to help make sure everyone can be included in the activities and enabling them to participate.
Admin assistant
With such a small office-based team we are always looking for help in the office. Anyone who can help us with admin, cleaning and fundraising tasks is welcome to get in touch. Ideal for those who have recently retired and are looking for something new.

All of our volunteers receive the following benefits:

Full training and support to complete the volunteering role
Access to carer development and training opportunities
A volunteer uniform
Invitations to staff and volunteer socials
The ability to change a disabled persons life!

Our current funders

Smile Through Sport are fortunate to work with many funders and are grateful to our donors. Below is a list of our funders and donors who we are currently supporting the incredible work we do.

The Greggs Foundation

Sport England

Peter Harrison Foundation

Sir James Knott Trust

British Wheelchair Basketball

Gateshead Council

The Blaydon Race

Great North Run Company