Barclays Spaces for Sports has won a Sport Business award at the Global Sports Forum in Barcelona.
Since its launch in the UK in 2004 with partners the Football Foundation and Groundwork, Barclays Spaces for Sports has created 200 sports sites in disadvantaged areas across the UK benefiting half a million people. In 2008 it was extended globally with further sites and projects already established in South Africa, the United States, the UK, Spain and Zambia. Barclays is also working with charity Compassion for Migrant Children in China to benefit a migrant community in Beijing.
The programme has already won Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative of the Year at last year’s Peace and Sport Awards in Monaco. It has previously been recognised with a number of UK awards, including the BUPA Healthy Community Award at the Business in the Community (BITC) Awards of Excellence in 2007, Best Grass Roots Sports Sponsorship at the Hollis Sponsorship Awards 2007 and the Sport England Community Programme Award at the Sport Industry Awards 2007.
Barclays has committed more than £37 million to Barclays Spaces for Sports since its inception. WildWest has played a very small part in the success of the programme, designing promotional literature and reports for Barclays Spaces for Sports.




