Resources
Feel free to make use of these simple resources, get in touch if you would like to grab a cuppa to discuss anything.
Hartlepool Sport Toolkit - Start a Club
Hartlepool Sport Toolkit - Run Your Club
Hartlepool Sport Toolkit – Grow your Club
Hartlepool Sport Toolkit – Fund your Club
Hartlepool Sport Toolkit – Safeguarding & Welfare
Hartlepool Sport Toolkit – Facilities & Spaces
We have lots more ready to go resources from constitution templates, risk assessments, budget spreadsheets etc...
Sport England Place Expansion
We are working with a whole range of local partners to gather community and partner insight into movement and physical activity as part of a Sport England funded project called 'Place Expansion'. Hartlepool Sport was setup in 2020 on the early learning of Sport England's 'Local Delivery Pilots' which were the precursor to Place Expansion. We are therefore proud to support this work as it lands in Hartlepool.
Specifically, we were asked to lead on Headland and Central locality alongside Rovers Rugby Club, and we also lead across the borough on the Children and Families theme.
We have published a lot of learning, and shared it across our partners involved in this work.
Some key summaries can be found here:
Urban Sport & Urban Play Summer 2025
Sport Mapping - September 2025
Youth Advisory Board - Principles (Pride in Place)
Principles for Community Owned-Learning
Insight Report - Eskdale & Wadokai, January 2026
Hartlepool Sport System Map, March 2026
Beyond Narrative Extraction, March 2026
The Shrinking Radius, April 2026
As part of the Pride in Place work, we created some insight led 'provocations' to feed into the innovation days:
Parks as Social Infrastructure, March 2026
Activating Hartlepool Parks, March 2026
The Architecture of Play, March 2026
As part of the insight project, weekly logs are created by the research teams.
You can see ours here:
Weekly logs 30.01.2026 onwards
We also co-design a Hartlepool Sport Theory of Change through Autumn 2025 and published it January 2026:
