Sport relief makes a huge difference to lives - PM

Gordon Brown met members of a Sport Relief project that provides football training to disadvantaged young people today.

Read the transcript for the film below:

Gordon Brown:

I've worked with Sports Relief for some years now, and Sports Relief does a tremendous job. It's encouraging thousands, indeed hundreds of thousands of people to be involved in sport. It's giving huge amounts of money to charity and making a huge difference to people's lives. Behind me are young people who have been training, who are fit, who are in football, who are doing things that are helping the community as a result of what Sports Relief is doing.

Gudrun:

My name is Gudrun. I work for a charity called Street League. We're all about getting people into employment, but we utilise sports as a hook, so people can turn up to football training just because they want to, because it's fun to play football, and then building on that programme, the sports programme, we also take people into workshops and, say, CV writing or goal setting. We also have coaching qualifications, one called the Community Sports Leadership Award, which is a one-week course. We also do FA Level 1 for our players. So they can get into employment through all these opportunities that we offer on top of the sports programme.