Portsmouth City of Sanctuary encourages sports projects to improve the fitness and mental well-being of people seeking sanctuary in Portsmouth.

Strength & Conditioning Training

Portsmouth City of Sanctuary is pleased to work in collaboration with the University of Portsmouth’s School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science to develop a pilot project supporting our clients in weekly strength and conditioning sessions taking place in the gym. This project is led by Dr Thierry Middleton.

Football 

We are very excited about our men’s football team which continues to grow and improve week after week. This project is run in partnership with Steve Fletcher at Solent Sports.

“Football has a universal language, many people, different languages and we all understand each other playing”.  Local asylum seeker feedback.

Contact Denise Callender (via Contact) to join the Women’s gym group at the University of Portsmouth or Football Training with Solent Sports.