12th August 2016

STREETGAMES WALES HOSTS MULTISPORT FESTIVAL

AT THE PRINCIPALITY STADIUM

As the Olympics gets into full swing, 2,000 young people from across Wales descended on the Principality Stadium in Cardiff on the 11th August as part of a StreetGames multisport festival.

The young people, aged from 11-18 and from some of Wales’ poorest areas were able to take part in over 40 different activities, ranging from Netball, Football and Rugby to Zorbing, Dodgeball and skateboarding.

The event was organised against the backdrop of research from Poverty & Social Exclusion 2013 and Barnado’s 2014, that suggests the majority of young people living in Wales’ poorest communities will never get to visit their national stadium, see a major sporting event, watch their national team compete or get to support their local team in a live capacity. The research also shows that a large number of families living in these deprived areas lack the opportunity for a day trip with their peers and families due to financial barriers.

StreetGames is a national charity whose aim is toimprove the lives of young people living in disadvantaged communities across the UK through sport.

Commenting on the festival, Caro Wild, Director of StreetGames Wales said: “We are proud that those young people sometimes considered ‘hard to reach’ actually prove very easy to engage with when the offer is right.It’s great to see so many young people from across Wales all come together to take part in such a wide variety of sporting and physical activities. An event like this not only gives them a chance to try new things and to be active for a few hours, but gives them confidence and hopefully sparks in them the drive to continue doing this type of activity when they are back in their communities.

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“I would like to thank the team and our partners for all their hard work and support because without them this festival would have been impossible to achieve.”

In order to raise some of the funds needed to organise and host the festival, Paul “Robbo” Roberts and Jon Wheadon of StreetGames, completed the monumental challenge of running a total of 187 miles from the Promenade in Colwyn Bay, North Wales to Gate 3 of the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.

StreetGames supports the needs of communities across the UK so young people in poverty get some form of sport and physical activity delivered in the right style, in the right place, at the right price and at the right time.

In Wales,StreetGames delivers a joint funded programme through theWelsh Government's Communities 1st Shared Outcomes Project and Sport Wales, to reduce inequalities and tackle poverty through sport.​

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Notes to Editors:

  • StreetGames ( is an award-winning national sports charity supported by The Welsh Government, Sport Wales, and a number of commercial partners to increase sport and physical activity across all Communities 1st clusters in Wales.
  • It helps makes sport accessible to young people living in areas of high deprivation across the UK. Its delivery method is Doorstep sportthe 5 Rights – right time, right price, right place and right style with the right people
  • The aim of each StreetGames project is for sport and physical activity to be sustainable and become part of the fabric of the community. This leads tostronger and safer communities, a championing ofsocial action and volunteering, aswell asimproved health and wellbeing
  • StreetGames is a lead agency for trying to ensure increased participation in sport from Black Minority and Ethnic (BME) communities in Wales
  • Communities First is the Welsh Government’s flagship programme set up throughout Wales in 2001 to be active in areas which are in the top 10% of social deprivation; according to the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD)