Sporting Recovery Non-Profit Leisure Company

Wellness Centre

A place where all people can have the support, encouragement and opportunities to manage their mental health.

When, Where and Who

Our Programmes

Exercise for Mental Wellness

Providing Solutions

Take someone out of society, stick them on their own in a flat, medicate them … anybody would be destroyed, let alone someone who’s already fragile. Sporting Recovery is about giving people the ability to be independent, but with support. We develop and promote ways of helping people with mental distress cope with their recovery journey and find ways of integrating back into their community. The uniqueness of our programmes are that we integrate sports, nutritional advice and education (with nationally recognised qualifications leading to employment) into an accessible form. As a non-profit organisation, any profits is invested to create a positive impact within the community.

Exercise for all
Our sports programme provides team and exercises activities that teach players how to motivate themselves
You are what you eat
Our Wellness Cafeteria provides healthy snacks and nutritional information required to sustain a healthy lifestyle
Education
Opportunities to develop coaching certificates in sporting and exercise disciplines alongside basic healthy cooking classes

Our Partners

Who We Are

What you say

I am writing this in my capacity as a community mental health nurse currently employed by the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. I was a regular participant in the weekly Thursday afternoon football sessions run at the Damilola Taylor Centre in Peckham. These weekly sessions were invaluable to the service users. It was always well attended and there were many regular clients who would attend every week, often arriving before staff. They all had a sense of ownership of these sessions and would often help set up equipment. These sessions would often see many individuals turn up who were generally very isolated and difficult to engage in the conventional manner.

Steve Bristow

Community Mental Health Nurse

A successful football project named Peckham St Giles ran for some time at Camberwell in South London. As a Health Professional I was involved in the project and often helped and played with the service users. I was extremely impressed by the running of the group by Mr. Ron Bell and I know the service users were very appreciative of his input. The service users not only were engaged and kept well within the group, but they were assisted to move on to employment and educational opportunities, the success rate was very high. I have no doubt that this has been the singular most effective mental health project I have seen in my 30 years as a social worker and hope very much it returns very

Vishnu Singh

Southwark, Social Worker

“Sporting Recovery CIC originated from the Peckham & St. Giles football project. From the outset this project was very successful, with around 170 participants attending the programme. Over forty percent of the service users on the programme either reduced or were able to come of their prescribed medication. The football team, established by the service users won the league. However, the greatest success was the integration of a ‘revolving door’ service user who has been able to gain a qualification, reduce his medication and obtain full time employment. I believe the directors have the expertise and determination to make a success of the CIC”

Dr. Steve Church

NHS Consultant Psychiatrist (Adult MHS)