As a Director of Leicester Riders Foundation I've seen & heard how basketball can play a key role in providing positive direction to young people.

The Riders Foundation Hardship Fund aims to support those who can most benefit from the facilities offered by the Foundation and the basketball club - people like the talented teenager with ADHD who along with his sister wouldn't be able to build their skills and talent and benefit from all the wider opportunities the sport provides, without the fund:

“His basketball helped massively with the discipline and structure and the want/need to do his best and get better. The hardship fund has been amazing for us all as a family...all you want is for your kids to be happy and do what they love.” Mum

During the cost of living crisis these opportunities have become less and less accessible, but often they are a lifeline for the participants and their wider families - the hardship fund can be transformational for a young person's outcomes and wider family wellbeing.

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