Sportsaid

sportsaid is the only national charity of its kind, proudly supporting young british sportsmen and women who aspire to be our next olympic, paralympic, commonwealth and world champions. typically aged 12 to 18 these athletes face huge challenges. they train for more than 15 hours a week before and after school, travel more than 1,000 miles a month and spend more than £6,000 a year to train and compete. without sportsaid many could not continue competing and their sports could not replace the funding sportsaid provides. the impact on british sport, and as a consequence the british public, is huge: at london 2012 20 of team gb’s 29 olympic gold medals and 27 of paralympicsgb’s 34 gold medals were won by athletes previously supported by sportsaid. one of them was 11-time paralympic champion dame sarah storey who said, “without doubt, sportsaid will always have a very important part to play in british sport.” sportsaid was established in 1976 and its patron is her royal highness the duches