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Holiday Activities
Four weeks of free multi-sport and enrichment across the school holidays, including a hot meal every day.
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Opportunity · Community · ProgressBuilding Stronger Communities Across East London
Supporting young people, adults and families through sport, education, employability, health and wellbeing.
About us
A community organisation rooted in the neighbourhoods we serve
Saint City Community is a Community Interest Company based in East London. We exist to create opportunities for local people by delivering programmes that improve lives, from a child's first football session to an adult's first job interview in years.
Our mission
To remove the barriers that stop East Londoners taking part: cost, confidence, culture and access, and to replace them with practical, lasting opportunity.
Our vision
An East London where every young person, adult and family has somewhere to belong, someone in their corner, and a genuine route to progress.
Our values
- CommunityWe start with the people who live here, not with our own plans.
- OpportunityEvery session should open a door that was previously closed.
- InclusionAccess is designed in from day one: cost, culture, disability, gender.
- RespectWe treat participants, families and partners as equals.
- ExcellenceQualified staff, safe venues, measured outcomes. Always.
- LeadershipWe grow local leaders and hand real responsibility to young people.
- WellbeingPhysical and mental health sit at the centre of everything we deliver.
What we do
Six areas of delivery, one joined-up offer
Our programmes are designed to work together, so someone who joins a football session can find mentoring, wellbeing support and a route into work through the same trusted door.
Community Sport
Free and low-cost sport that keeps East London moving, every week of the year.
- Football coaching
- Multi-sport activities
- Holiday camps
- Walking football
- Girls football
- Inclusive sport
Education & Skills
Practical routes into work, built with employers and local training providers.
- Employability
- CV support
- Interview skills
- Digital skills
- Training
- Apprenticeships
- Careers
Health & Wellbeing
Prevention-first activity designed with residents, GPs and NHS partners.
- Mental wellbeing
- Healthy lifestyles
- Fitness
- Community health
- Support groups
- Physical activity
Youth Development
Mentoring and leadership that helps young people find their voice.
- Mentoring
- Leadership
- Life skills
- Confidence
- Social action
- Youth voice
Community Engagement
Neighbourhood-led events and outreach that reach the people others miss.
- Family events
- Community outreach
- Volunteering
- Neighbourhood projects
- Partnership working
Partnerships
We deliver alongside the institutions that shape local life.
- Schools
- Councils
- NHS
- Sport England
- Football Foundation
- Employers
- Charities
- Businesses
Community programmes
What's running right now
Weekly sessions, seasonal camps and structured programmes across the boroughs.
Sport
Community Football
Weekly FA-qualified coaching for grassroots teams and open pay-as-you-play sessions on local 3G pitches.
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Sport
Women's Sessions
Women-only fitness, football and wellbeing sessions in trusted venues with female coaches and creche support.
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Health
Walking Football
Low-impact football for over-50s that tackles isolation as much as it improves fitness.
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Youth
Youth Mentoring
One-to-one mentoring for 11–19s at risk of exclusion, with a trained mentor for at least twelve weeks.
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Education
Employability Workshops
CVs, applications, interview practice and digital skills, plus direct introductions to local employers.
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Three ways to be part of it
Volunteer
Give a few hours a week, gain qualifications and help run sessions in your own neighbourhood.
Become a volunteerPartner With Us
Co-design, commission or sponsor delivery with a partner that reports properly and delivers on time.
Explore partnershipsJoin A Programme
Find a session that fits: football, wellbeing, mentoring or employability. Most are free.
Find a sessionOur partners
Trusted by the institutions that shape local life
- Local Schools
- London Borough Councils
- NHS North East London
- Sport England
- Football Foundation
- The National Lottery
- Local Businesses
- Community Organisations
- Local Schools
- London Borough Councils
- NHS North East London
- Sport England
- Football Foundation
- The National Lottery
- Local Businesses
- Community Organisations
Testimonials
In their words
“My son had stopped leaving the house. Six months with the mentoring team and he's coaching the under-9s. I can't put a value on that.”
“Saint City are the partner we call first. They reach the young people our own provision never gets to, and their reporting is faultless.”
“I did the volunteer academy, got my coaching badge and I'm now employed part-time. It completely changed what I thought was possible.”
“Their walking football group has done more for our patients' wellbeing than any leaflet we've ever handed out.”
“Delivery is on time, safeguarding is watertight and the community genuinely trusts them. That combination is rare.”
Latest news
Stories from the ground
Community
Record summer: 1,400 hot meals and four weeks of free sport
Our biggest holiday programme yet reached 320 children across five venues, with 92% of families saying it eased the cost of the summer break.
Funding
Football Foundation backs East London pitch expansion
New investment will unlock 30 extra hours of floodlit pitch time each week for grassroots teams and women's sessions.
Sport
New girls football league kicks off in September
Six local schools have signed up to a term-time league designed around travel, kit and confidence barriers.
Education
Nine in ten of our latest employability cohort into work or training
The six-week programme paired workshops with guaranteed interviews from four East London employers.
Upcoming
What's on
- 12AugCommunity Football: Open Session18:00 – 20:00 · Stratford 3G, E15
- 17AugSummer Holiday Club (Week 3)10:00 – 15:00 · Plaistow Community Centre
- 19AugWomen's Wellbeing & Fitness11:00 – 12:30 · Canning Town Hall
- 21AugWalking Football Social13:00 – 14:30 · Newham Leisure Centre
- 26AugVolunteer Academy Induction18:30 – 20:30 · Stratford Community Hub
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Let's build something lasting for East London
Whether you want to volunteer, commission delivery or fund a programme, we'd like to hear from you.