Celebrating our partnership with Goods for Good

One of the Partnership’s strategic objectives “Sport for Social Change” focuses on using sport and physical activity to improve community cohesion, social inclusion, economic prosperity, crime and anti-social behaviour reduction, educational attainment, and employability. To enhance this objective, HSP collaborated with Goods for Good, and the charity’s Sport for Good mission, to address the social issues around the county and build stronger and healthier communities.

Goods for Good take donations of unsold essential goods from British industry, and pre-loved goods from communities and individuals, and redistribute them to those who need help to survive and thrive. The Sport for Good approach aims to combat obstacles and create opportunities by providing sportswear and equipment to support those who may be excluded from participating in sport because of a lack of financial resources, limited access to quality sportswear, or societal barriers such as gender, disability or cultural differences.

In the past 12 months, we estimate that 475 items of clothing and footwear have been donated through this partnership including:

• 26 branded ¾ black midlayer tops to participants at a netball youth camp.
• 28 t-shirts and shorts to male Refugees and Asylum Seekers so they could play football safely at the Multiply sessions.
• 70 branded t-shirts and long-sleeved black jumpers to local female residents in Bennetts End.
• 30 pairs of adult trainers to those supported by local Women’s Refuge services.
• 79 pairs of tiny trainers for families supported by the Home Start Watford & Three Rivers Team.

“I just wanted to say a heartfelt thank you for all the amazing trainers. Honestly, we couldn’t believe our eyes when our colleague brought them here. Thank you so much, our families will absolutely love them.”

The Student Success Team supports students from underrepresented groups at the University of Hertfordshire (UH), working with the ambition to transform students' lives by empowering and enabling them to be successful in their journey at UH and beyond.

The team work with a range of student groups including care leavers and care experienced students; independent (estranged) students; young adult carers and displaced refugee students, and worked with HSP to provide some sports clothing and winter coats during one of the UH Student Success Drop-in Clinics before the Christmas holidays.

“All the students were so grateful…being able to provide some of them with new sports clothing and footwear, especially the winter jackets, was heartening. Those who took a jacket said that the cost of coat was the reason they didn’t have a jacket for the winter months.”

The Partnership is excited to work together with the Goods for Good team again in 2025, and see how we can continue to address inequalities in sport and physical activity through these donations.

Read the full report below:

HSP x Goods for Good 2024 Impact Report