Projects currently supported

City Parks Foundation is dedicated to invigorating and transforming parks into dynamic, vibrant centers of urban life through sports, arts, community building, and education programs for all New Yorkers.

Description
The project aims to enable more than 300 young people from disadvantaged areas of NYC to play tennis and golf in the city’s parks. The weekly supervised sessions are supplemented by registration for tournaments to encourage the youngsters to take part in city competitions.

Localisation: New York City , USA
Number of participants: 400 young people
Age: 6-17

The Institute of Sport of Solutions is a space for cooperation dedicated to sports stakeholders, promoting the emergence of innovations and sustainable solutions. It combines field action and scientific research to identify, decipher and capitalize on the impacts of sports initiatives. By sharing knowledge and promoting best practices, it acts as a catalyst for transformation for a more inclusive, responsible and innovative sport.

Tennis South Africa’s mission is to develop the practice of tennis in the country. To implement this mission, the association has created Development Centers to ensure accessibility to tennis through training for children of all ages from disadvantaged areas

Description
Lacoste Foundation supports the development of the “Play and Learn” program, which allows a group of about fifty young people from 5 neighborhoods of Pretoria and its surroundings to practice tennis in a supervised manner and with adequate equipment. The program also offers sessions focused on soft skills (development of self-confidence, collaborative spirit, workshops around nutrition, reproductive health, etc.) At the same time, the program aims to perfect the training of coaches in a professional logic.

Location: 5 district of the city of Tshwane
Number of beneficiaries: 140 young people, 50% of whom are young girls

Education through sport” Play Tennis

Tibu Maroc is an NGO that uses the power of sport to design innovative social solutions in the field of education, empowerment and socio-economic inclusion of youth and women through sport. As a leading organisation in the education and inclusion of young people and women through sport, it has a wide national coverage in more than 25 cities and 12 regions

Description
The project aims to enable a hundred young people from a disadvantaged district of Casablanca to practice tennis through weekly lessons and regular competitions. At the same time, a dozen young people of age to enter the job market are supported to find a job in the sports professions.

Location: Casablanca, Morocco
Start year: 2022
Number of beneficiaries per year: 100
Age range: 7 – 25 years old

Superaccio, is a non-profit organisation whose main objective is to promote the empowerment of young people at risk of social exclusion through action and sport.

Description
Superaccio allows young people in great precariousness, often without family support (young unaccompanied minors), to integrate a sports program, focused on the disciplines of triathlon and at the same time to accompany them in their social integration and personal development (via language courses, dedicated workshops) as well as in their integration into the professional world.

Location: Barcelona
Launch year: 2012
Number of young people supported
per year: 390
Age range: 15 –25 years

Created in Rome in 2011, Sport Senza Frontiere (Sport Without Borders) is an association that works for a society in which sport is accessible to all and where it is recognizable and used as an educational tool for prevention, inclusion and social cohesion.

Description
“Programma Sport Senza Frontiere” is a socio-educational inclusion programme carried out through the practice of sport, aimed at minors in socio-economic difficulty. The programme provides for the inclusion of beneficiaries in the sports sessions of their choice, as well as the support and follow-up of an educator, a psychologist and a local coordinator. The initiative grants medical check-ups and promotes the importance of preventive health care.

Location: Milan – Italy
Launch year: 2022
Number of young people supported each year: 80
Age range: 6 – 17 years old

Sport dans la Ville is the main association for integration through sport in France. Each year, its programmes support and promote the social and professional integration of 7,000 young people.

Description
Since 2010, the Lacoste Foundation has been supporting the “Match Ball” program, which aims to enable more than 300 young girls to play tennis on a regular basis. They also benefit from the opportunity to join the “L in the City” activities focused on the development of self-confidence and female leadership, and from “Job in the City” to prepare their integration in the professional world and their future orientation.

Localisation: France
Year of launch: 2010
Number of young people supported
per year: 300
Age group: 8 – 16 years

For thirty-five years, ITEC, the network of clubs of Israel Tennis and Education Centers, has been providing disadvantaged Israeli children with social programs.

Description
The Akko club, supported by the Lacoste Foundation, welcomes 35 disadvantaged young people each year, regardless of their religion. During the year, these children benefit – in addition to weekly tennis lessons – from workshops to develop self-confidence, sessions focused on soft skills as well as activities that promote cooperation and tolerance

Localisation: Israel – Akko
Launch year: 2011
Number of young people supported
per year: 35
Age range: 9 – 12 years old

Gol de Letra supports the integration of young people from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, through sports, artistic and cultural activities.

Description
In Caju (Rio), young people can practice various sports (judo, gym, tennis, badminton, capoeira, etc.) and artistic activities (theatre, dance, writing workshop, etc.). From the age of 16, the association also offers them tutoring, help to prepare them for higher education, and vocational training to facilitate their integration into the world of work

Location: Brazil – Rio de Janeiro
Year of Launch: 2006
Number of young people supported: 680
Age range: 8 – 30 years

Ligue de golf Paris IDF offers activities adapted to people with disabilities.

Description
The project aims to create and run “Paragolf programmes” in about fifteen golf courses in the Ile de France region in order to allow young people with disabilities to play golf, to practice in a safe environment and to socialise through an outdoor activity. Throughout the region, Flying Teams will also run introductory sessions directly in specialized centers welcoming people with disabilities. The objective is to duplicate this “Paragolf” model in other regions, particularly in the Hauts de France.

Location: Paris
Launch year: 2021
Number of young people supported
per year: 45
Age range: 10 – 20 years old

Etendard promotes the inspiration and integration of young people through sport and the creative arts, by renovating and decorating sports halls and activating them in the long term.

Description
The association sets up weekly tennis lessons throughout the year in Clichy and Troyes, supplemented by cultural, creative and civic awakening workshops.  It also offers introductory courses combining sports and creative arts during the school holidays.

Location: France – Clichy and Troyes
Launch year: 2023
Number of young people supported
per year: 300
Age range: 8 – 16 years old

Crocogolf is an initiative of the French Golf Federation that promotes the practice of golf for young people from working-class neighborhoods.

Description
Every year, about fifteen children from the social centres of Ronchin and Lille join the Lille golf course for a weekly lesson. This practice allows them to broaden their horizons, to gain self-confidence but also to learn perseverance. They also have free access to the golf course , just like all other members of the golf club.

Location: France – Lille
Launch year: 2014
Number of young people supported
per year: 16
Age range: 6 – 10 years old