Plan your Team Huddle

Last updated: 01 Aug 2024
Team Huddle Assets

Part of the Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport campaign

Everyone has a role to play in keeping children safe in sport. Our year-round campaign aims to support parents and carers to feel confident about playing their part.

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This year we’re focusing on building safer sporting communities for children.

We’re asking teams and clubs across the nation to bring their sporting community together by hosting a Team Huddle. This can take place over the summer or into autumn in the lead up to our focus week in October, whenever suits you most. 

Our Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport (KYCSIS) awareness raising week is taking place 7 ‑ 11 October 2024.

Team Huddle - play, chat and connect to keep children safeGet involved in a Team Huddle

A Team Huddle is a great way for everyone involved in your sport or activity to get together to play, chat and connect.

It also provides an opportunity to let parents, carers, volunteers and staff know about the part they play in keeping children safe in sport.

Team Huddle Event Pack

Our Team Huddle activity pack can be used as part of an event you already have planned, or you can host a specific event for your sporting community.

We’re providing a fun quiz in our Team Huddle activity pack, but you can also choose your own activity. Perhaps you prefer to invite parents to have a go at their child’s sport, or a scavenger hunt, a table tennis competition, sports day or even hire a bouncy castle to take over the sports hall. It’s up to you.

Contents of the Team Huddle activity pack

 

What’s included in the pack?

The Team Huddle activity pack contains:

  • printable poster
  • invitations to print or send electronically
  • suggested social media posts
  • downloadable quiz
  • printable bunting

 

Resources to help you host a Team Huddle

The below resources give a little more guidance on how to use the campaign materials, how to host a huddle, ways to communicate with busy parents and carers and more. We aim to make it as easy as possible for you to get your sport community together. 

Resources to use with parents

We also have the following resources which can be shared with parents at an event:

Social Media Toolkit

We'd love for you to share your support by using the below Social Media Toolkit. It includes sample social media copy for use by NGBs, Active Partnerships, Sport Welfare, community clubs and individuals. Tell us what you’re doing to build a safer sporting community by using #SafeinSport on your socials and find us on LinkedIn under NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit.

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More about the KYCSIS campaign

Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport is a national, year-round campaign which looks at improving parental involvement in children’s sport. The campaign features an annual awareness raising week, usually during the first week of October.

During this awareness raising week we share resources to help sports and parents to work together to keep children safe in sport.

Our aim for 2024 is to bring your sporting community together. We want to help you create an open and inclusive culture, where parents feel able to speak up, ask questions and raise concerns.

Keep up to date

You can sign up to our mailing list to receive related resources and guidance throughout the year.

You can also help us to reach more people in sport by liking and sharing our content on LinkedIn at NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit.

Further information

Factsheets to share

Community Participation

Thank you for taking part in Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport 2024. 

Everyone has a role to play in keeping children safe in sport. This is just a snippet of the community participation in our annual campaign. 

Alan Shearer Sport Welfare Officers at KYCSIS Launch Event SASP Team Huddle KYCSIS Launch Event