A Champion
in your corner
When someone believes in you,
it’s incredible what you can do.
Dame Kelly Holmes Trust puts world class athletes shoulder to shoulder with young people. Equipping them with a winning mindset and shaping their futures - it's a teammate like no other. Whether that’s building relationship skills, improving self-esteem or learning to stay focused, our sporting champions help the next generation move forward with confidence.
An Exciting New Chapter
After 18 years of inspiring young people, offering them the opportunity to realise their potential and become the best version of themselves through working with our incredible athlete mentors, we are proud that our education programmes and athlete mentor team will continue as part of Leadership through Sport and Business (LTSB). The transition has been developed jointly by both organisations and reflects a shared commitment to ensuring that successful programmes continue to grow cost-effectively and reach more young people in an increasingly challenging charitable funding environment.
Dame Kelly Holmes Trust will wind down as an organisation on 30th September 2026, but the impact of our work will continue. The decision has been driven by one objective: ensuring that our successful programmes continue to benefit young people long into the future. We are delighted to have found a strong and sustainable home for the work we have developed.
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Focus on their future
Every young person deserves an opportunity to be the best version of themselves. Our athlete mentors deliver transformational programmes for young people in education, community and health settings, improving their wellbeing and confidence, and unlocking their potential.
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A teammate like no other
We believe athletes are inspirational role models. The positivity of their can-do, never quit attitude could benefit us all. We provide specialist training to enable these sportspeople to harness their unique skillset and pass it on to others, working directly with young people and also with our corporate partners. It’s a winning combination which gets incredible results.
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Be the champion
Led by our world class athlete mentors, our partnerships are an opportunity to inspire, motivate and develop your team through engaging challenges, interactive sessions and community based work with Trust mentees. Designed to empower your workforce and enrich your local community, it’s a win win partnership.
Our goal is to improve
the health and wellbeing of
10,000 young people across the UK
facing challenges in their everyday lives
To find out more about how we plan to achieve this, take a look at our 10 year strategy.
Shoulder to shoulder with young people
Shoulder to shoulder with young people
Powering Potential Shaping Futures
Powering Potential Shaping Futures
A teammate like no other
A teammate like no other
Powering potential
Shaping futures
Dame Kelly Holmes Trust is a youth development charity founded on the belief that every young person needs a champion. Just one person believing in you can be the difference between fully committing or quitting.
We train up existing and former champions from the world of elite sport to pass on their winning mindset through coaching and mentoring.
From sports star to guide, they help young people who are facing adversity develop the positive behaviours and skills they need to succeed in education, work and life.
Our transformational wellbeing programmes change lives. With a renewed purpose, get up and go attitude and fresh motivation, we’ve seen young people turn their futures around against all odds.
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