Our progress against our original pledge was hugely successful. We had originally pledged to increase the number of hours of voluntary leadership activity from 500,000 a year to 1million by 2020. However, by mid-2015 we had already reached over 1.6million hours for the year. This success has also coincided with us undertaking some research alongside the Institute for Voluntary Research which has concluded that 80% of qualified Sports Leaders said that a direct impact of taking their Sports Leaders UK qualification was that they were more likely to help their community whilst 80% also said that becoming a Sports Leader has helped others to become more active. This is a fantastic demonstration of the impact leadership can have on encouraging social action and volunteering.

Therefore, we have taken the decision to update our pledge to now aim to increase the number of hours of voluntary activity leadership by young people in their communities to 5 million hours by 2020.