How your money helps

Here are just a few examples of the many issues Sport Relief cash is helping to tackle. See what an incredible difference you can make when you rise to the challenge.

Street & Working Children

There are up to 100 million children struggling to survive on city streets world-wide and around 215 million who have to work to survive. These children live dangerous and very difficult lives – living in grinding poverty with no one to care for them or working in extremely dangerous conditions to scrape a living.

Vitally, for both street and working children, your money can provide them with the education they desperately need to escape the poverty they face. With the right support from Sport Relief funded projects, these children have the chance of a much brighter future.

Malaria

A child in Africa dies from malaria every 45 seconds. That's over 700,000 lives lost a year - even though it is both preventable and treatable.

Sport Relief cash will help make that statistic a thing of the past by providing simple but crucial ways to fight the disease; like malaria nets and information on how best to use them and rapid testing kits so those who do become infected can get the help they need quickly.

Local community work in the UK

Too many people face poverty and discrimination across the UK. With rising levels of unemployment and some families finding it tougher than ever to make ends meet, Sport Relief cash is hard at work in communities right across the UK.

The money raised through Sport Relief supports vulnerable people at home in the UK. Whether they’re children with learning disabilities who feel excluded from local activities, families living in areas with very few opportunities to escape the poverty they face or isolated older people living incredibly lonely lives – your cash can help them all to overcome the major problems in their lives.

See how your money is helping people near you through Sport Relief’s interactive map.

Find out more about the people Sport Relief cash is helping at sportrelief.com