{"id":4529,"date":"2023-10-04T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/?p=4529"},"modified":"2024-02-27T16:02:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:02:54","slug":"the-ball-at-the-sport-positive-summit-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/blog\/2023\/10\/04\/the-ball-at-the-sport-positive-summit-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ball at the Sport Positive Summit 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ball was lucky enough to be invited again to this year’s Sport Positive Summit<\/a> in London. This is a conference where different stake holders from the sport industry come together to find ways to make sport more sustainable and how sport can help in our society’s climate action efforts. For instance, representatives from football clubs, the F1 cosmos and well as sport presenters and NGOs like us, Spirit of Football, participated.<\/p>\n

Two members from Spirit of Football, Joaquin and Iris, who were both The Ball carriers during the 2023 The Ball journey, were invited to present experiences and learnings from this year’s journey during the session “How are NGOs taking climate action” on October 3rd.<\/p>\n

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We talked about how sport is brings people together, and should bring us together in our efforts in sustainability, too. We shared stories from our journey, like that from Kiribati, a group of atolls doomed to be under water in the next 50 years. Or from our kick-off in London in July last year, where we kicked off this journey on a dry and yellow football field in Battersea Park. But we also shared that we met various sustainability initiatives on The Ball’s journey, such as Hara Makers, a social enterprise turning plastic into bags and more. Or Haley Carter, who pledged to keep the stadiums in her club, Orlando Pride, paper-free, which has saved huge amounts of papers and resources (see blog entry here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

We had met our main financial supporter of The Ball 2023, the Swedish Postcode Foundation<\/a> (SPF), at the Sport Positive Summit 2021 and so were able to share during the summit in 2023, how the Sport Positive Summit helped to make the connection between Spirit of Football and SPF and made the 2023 journey possible.<\/p>\n

See the full presentation and panel here:<\/p>\n