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safer neighbourhood teams, public health departments,
schools, sports clubs to name but a few.
Engaging with beneficiaries within their own
communities and environments including those facing
personal, emotional and physical challenges is a crucial
part of our work. Having staff that are passionate about
the charity’s aims, their projects and their participants
has been integral to the success of the Saracens Sport
Foundation. This has been highlighted by being awarded
the BreakThru Award at the All Party Parliamentary
Rugby Union Group Premiership Rugby Community
Awards for the past three years; Scrummy! 2013,Sarries
Skills Club 2014 and Get Onside- Feltham Prison 2015.
More recently we have been shortlisted as Sport Team
of the Year 2015 as part of the internationally recognised
Beyond Sports Awards supported by Comic Relief
alongside NFL giants San Francisco 49ers, Bundesliga
side SV Werder Bremen and Major League Soccer outfit
Chicago Fire.
RC: How important has the move to Allianz Park been
for the Foundation?
SS: The community focused approach in the design
and use of Allianz Park provides a unique platform
from which to base much of our high quality work.
The charity is embedded in the culture of Saracens and
the stadium move has added great value to the overall
charity’s work and reach. We have been able to expand
the provision of our pre-existing programmes including
holding mass participation dance events as part of our
Dance Programme, adding an education hub for our
Hitz social inclusion project, the build of a sensory room
to support our disability provision and the addition