Adam Beazley with some South African children

Why We Do It

You’ve read how it started and how it made everyone feel. When you’ve had an experience like that you want others to share it and benefit from it.

Many of the students we take suffer from limiting self-belief. We want to show them they can raise the bar and become something….that they don’t have to be held back by their circumstances. We teach them life skills and give them self-confidence and self-esteem and that enables them to become role models within the college and their communities. Their efforts and hard work inspire others and the empowerment cascades through the courses; the students; the college; the schools and the communities both in Africa and Nottingham.

In South Africa and Uganda we bring happiness and fun and laughter into the lives of children who have little to smile about. The pride our students feel in being able to contribute to this is often overwhelming for them. In Nottingham, our students have a responsibility to commit to delivering a 9 month coaching and mentoring programme to pupils aged between 7 and 11 years across as many as 30 primary schools in disadvantaged areas of the city. The aim is to pass on information and to act as community leaders and role models in supporting younger members of the community with their education and their own aspirations.

We run Balls to Poverty because we believe we can make a difference to the lives of young people in England, South Africa and Uganda who may be less fortunate than we are.

You can help us make that difference.