Social Enterprise Launches Campaign to Support Underdog Athletes

SEUK certified social enterprise; Harper Performance have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise at least £30k in just 30 days to enable them to continue their work supporting aspirational athletes in disadvantaged, deprived and marginalised communities across the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2018, a team of expert practitioners; from sports scientists, to physiotherapists and sports nutritionists drawn from elite sports teams all over the world will head to Liberia, Uganda and Kenya to support sports academies in some of the most deprived communities in the world.

In Liberia and Uganda, the non-profit Harper Performance will be working with two of the fastest growing football academies in Africa; the Monrovia Football Academy and the Football For Good Academy, where elite football development is coupled with world-class academic teaching. In Kenya, the team will be working to support aspirational long distance runners from rural areas with Project Africa Athletics.

The expert team boasts over 150 years of combined experience in elite sport and will travel to build the capacity of these sports organisations to best support their most talented athletes from a sports science, sports medicine, and nutrition perspective.

A successful crowdfunding campaign will ensure the social enterprise can continue to provide world-class support, that is traditionally out of reach to the vast majority, to some of the most promising athletes in the developing world pro-bono or for heavily subsidised fees.