A collective vision and set of principles for community sport’s role in building inclusive, resilient communities and its potential to contribute to international development and diplomacy.
The Leeds Declaration was co-created by attendees at the first Leeds Summit on Community Sport for Development and Diplomacy in September 2025.
The summit was arranged and led by Participate World, the University of Leeds, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds City Council and Sport Leeds, with ConnectSport CIC supporting as official media partner. More than 70 participants, practitioners and policy-makers, athletes and academics convened at the University of Leeds for two days to debate the power and potential of community sport as a developmental and diplomatic tool for both local and global impact, with the aim of launching the city as a global hub.
The summit concluded with the co-creation of the Leeds Declaration, a collective vision and set of principles for community sport’s role in building inclusive, resilient communities and its potential to contribute to international development and diplomacy.
The Leeds Declaration will be published here soon.
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