Asma Elbadawi is an ambassador for The Mintridge Foundation, a charity dedicated to enhancing life skills in young people through sport. As part of her work with the charity she openly discusses her own story and the positive benefits sport can have on overall wellbeing.

· Sports-lover Max Hunter sadly died by suicide in August 2019

· Eight of Max’s friends are now working with national charity The Mintridge Foundation to launch The Max Hunter Fund

· ‘28 Not Out’ will kick-start the fundraising for the fund in July and will raise money for the very first mentoring programmes

· The 28-hour fundraising event includes an online sports and mental health panel with Leicester Tigers Rugby Star, Dan Cole

It is safe to say that school sport in 2020 has looked a little different to that of any other before, but we here at Mintridge have been determined that everyone being at home won’t stop us harnessing the power of sporting role models to promote physical and mental wellbeing in young people.

The Youth Sport Trust and Sky Sports team have united the country through sport with National School Sport Week at Home between 20th and 26th June and together with Squadkit, we have joined the nation!

A special Mintridge programme drew to a close last week and we
wanted to share a little more about it with our community; it certainly brought
weekly smiles during a tough few months.

We are really excited as we have recently partnered with EasyFundraising to help
support mentees (past and present) to help generate funds towards their
sporting journeys which we know is very tough. Whether you are a mentee and you
need to fund your training equipment, travel expenses or a coaching
qualification or a parent of a young person, your options to get funds can be
complicated.

A special Mintridge programme drew to a close last week and we
wanted to share a little more about it with our community; it certainly brought
weekly smiles during a tough few months.

We are really excited as we have recently partnered with EasyFundraising to help
support mentees (past and present) to help generate funds towards their
sporting journeys which we know is very tough. Whether you are a mentee and you
need to fund your training equipment, travel expenses or a coaching
qualification or a parent of a young person, your options to get funds can be
complicated.

We are really excited as we have recently partnered with EasyFundraising to help
support mentees (past and present) to help generate funds towards their
sporting journeys which we know is very tough. Whether you are a mentee and you
need to fund your training equipment, travel expenses or a coaching
qualification or a parent of a young person, your options to get funds can be
complicated.

We are really excited as we have recently partnered with EasyFundraising to help
support mentees (past and present) to help generate funds towards their
sporting journeys which we know is very tough. Whether you are a mentee and you
need to fund your training equipment, travel expenses or a coaching
qualification or a parent of a young person, your options to get funds can be
complicated.

The Mintridge Foundation hope that you are all safe and well
during this very uncertain time, and we hope that we have a little bit of good
news that will help cheer you up…

We are really excited as we have recently partnered with EasyFundraising to help
support mentees (past and present) to help generate funds towards their
sporting journeys which we know is very tough. Whether you are a mentee and you
need to fund your training equipment, travel expenses or a coaching
qualification or a parent of a young person, your options to get funds can be
complicated.

The Mintridge Foundation hope that you are all safe and well
during this very uncertain time, and we hope that we have a little bit of good
news that will help cheer you up…

We are really excited as we have recently partnered with EasyFundraising to help
support mentees (past and present) to help generate funds towards their
sporting journeys which we know is very tough. Whether you are a mentee and you
need to fund your training equipment, travel expenses or a coaching
qualification or a parent of a young person, your options to get funds can be
complicated.

Continuing our spotlight on our ambassadors, this week we’re homing in on two more inspiring women.

Shona McCallin is probably most well known for being one the Great Britain Hockey team who won Britain’s first ever Olympic Gold Medal for Hockey at the Rio Olympics and Nekoda Smythe-Davis looks to be a genuine medal hope for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.