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As well-earned celebrations continue to mark GB athlete successes at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the GLL Sport Foundation has been proudly counting the impact of their athlete support programme. The GLL Sport Foundation (GSF) is the UK’s largest... (more)

GSF Athlete Jess Bailey was competing at the Under-20 Athletics World Championships in Lima, Peru last week. Combining her training whilst doing her A-Levels, Jess set a new personal best to come eighth in the world! Competing in the 3000m race for T... (more)

GSF athlete Divine Iheme, the fastest 14-year-old in Britain and the world after the teenager smashed the world record for his age group during an athletic meet at Lee Valley (August 26). Divine ran an unthinkable 10.3 seconds, shaving off a staggeri... (more)

GLL Sport Foundation Empowers 29 Cambridgeshire Athletes with 2025 Awards In a powerful show of support for emerging athletic talent, charitable social enterprise and worker-owned co-operative GLL has announced that 29 athletes from Cambridgeshire wi... (more)

Great Britain's Kimberley Woods sealed a gold double at the Canoe Slalom World Cup final in Augsburg, Germany. Kimberley won the canoe event on Saturday 24 hours after triumphing in the women's kayak single (K1). She finished ahead of Brazilian run... (more)

GSF Athlete Eugene Amo-Dadzie moved to joint fifth on the all-time European men’s 100m list with a blistering personal best of 9.87 (+2.0m/s) at Lee Valley, London on Saturday (30). It was also a European lead for the 33-year-old athlete who will rep... (more)

GSF’s Maggie Cotter is celebrating this week after winning a silver medal and a bronze medal as part of Team GB at the World Transplant Games in Dresden, Germany that concluded on 24 August. She was one of 267 Team GB transplant athletes, including 2... (more)

The Wilkinson family, a remarkable trio of athletes from GSF, delivered a standout performance at the National Biathlete Championships on Sunday - the key qualifying event for the upcoming World Championships. Evie Wilkinson stormed to 1st place in h... (more)

On Wednesday night at Botwell Green Sports and Leisure Centre, we came together to celebrate the GLL Sport Foundation 2025 Awardees from Hillingdon. We were privileged to have the Mayor of Hillingdon, Councillor Phillip Corthorne, alongside Colin Cou... (more)

Nine rising stars supported by the GLL Sport Foundation proudly represented their Country at the European Youth Summer Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Skopje, North Macedonia, from 20–26 July 2025. Competing across seven different sports, these young athl... (more)

Over 100 Cumbrian athletes will be supported by a foundation dedicated to helping them succeed. The GLL Sports Foundation, run by charitable social enterprise GLL, said 102 athletes, ranging from eight to 69 years old, from the county will receive a ... (more)

Seventeen talented athletes from Welwyn and Hatfield are set to benefit from a £12,250 funding boost. The money, awarded by charitable social enterprise GLL at an award event at Panshanger Golf Club on Tuesday, July 17, will benefit athletes from se... (more)

On Monday 14th July, Enfield Partnership held its second GLL sports foundation awards evening to highlight the achievements and successes of local talented athletes from across the partnership. To highlight the emerging sporting achievements of the b... (more)

The GLL Sport Foundation (GSF) is proud to announce that nine of our supported athletes, past and present have been selected to represent Team GB and Team Ireland at the prestigious European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Skopje, North Macedonia, t... (more)

Last night our annual GLL Sports Foundation awards evening took place at the Broadway Theatre Catford.  This is the 4th year we have run an awards night having seen the programme grow from 40 recipients in year 1 to 102 this year.  37 supported athl... (more)

On Monday 7th July, Reading celebrated its 84 successful GLL Sport Foundation athletes for 2025-26. The awards celebration took place at The University of Reading and had 97 athletes and guests in attendance.  In Reading, there are 84 Athletes benef... (more)

On Thursday 26th June, Tadworth Leisure & Community Centre proudly hosted the Reigate & Banstead GLL Sport Foundation celebration event, recognising the outstanding achievements of local athletes supported by the Foundation. The event was attended by... (more)

Morden Leisure Centre Hosts Celebration for Local Athletes Supported by GLL Sport Foundation On Wednesday 2nd July, Morden Leisure Centre hosted the London Borough of Merton GLL Sport Foundation celebration event, recognising the outstanding achievem... (more)