About Us

In 2004, Let Me Play was established to provide opportunities to let young people play their chosen sport in a safe and secure environment. Let Me Play provides intensive sports, dance and educational experiences that combine a professional structure designed to teach and motivate each young person to reaching their maximum potential with the simple concept of having fun.

Let Me Play started off in year one as a specialist residential sports camp organisation, with just two basketball camps in Holland. Through rapid growth and diversafication, Let Me Play has expanded over the years, both in terms of the opportunities offered and the amount of young people that experience a Let Me Play camp, tour or programme. Based in the United Kingdom, Let Me Play now runs football camps, street dance camps, athletics camps, cheerleading camps, basketball camps, tennis camps, sports tours, school programmes, outreach programmes, sports academies, educational programmes and government projects.

Delivery of Schools Programmes:

Let Me Play currently runs programmes in more than 100 schools across London and Greater London. These programmes include PPA cover, after-schools clubs, sports days, holiday courses and transition camps.

Delivery of Government Commissioned Projects:

Reparation Programmes for Youth Offenders (The Weekend Project Hammersmith & Fulham)
Positive Activities for Disadvantaged Youth (The COO-L Project in Camden)
Sports & Activity Holiday Provision (Hammersmith & Fulham)

Delivery of Educational Programmes:

Let Me Play currently has 4 educational centres in London. The centres deliver courses for 16 to 21 year olds currently not in employment, education or training (NEETs). Each learner receives a variety of sports and personal development qualifications and is part of a sports academy that competes in a league.

Residential Sports and Dance Camps:

Let Me Play is one of the UK's largest specialist residential sports and dance camp organisations. We offer the following camps:

Basketball
Street Dance
Cheerleading
Athletics
K-Swiss Tennis
Reading FC Football
Southampton FC Football
Football Trials

Each camp and tour is carefully designed to give the participants a unique and memorable experience in terms of learning, development and having fun. We have a very wide network of excellent coaches, current and ex-professional players, physiotherapists and specialists within their particular fields such as nutrition, strength and conditioning, performance analysis and sports psychology. Our employees and volunteers represent our philosophy and mission so it is of paramount importance to us that we bring in the right people who share this same vision. We are very proud of the camp culture that we create, the coaches that come together and the experiences participants receive.

Academies:

In September 2011, Let Me Play launched an Elite Basketball Academy at Ealing, Hammersmith, and West London College (London's largest college). We recruited 23 young people to be part of this very special Basketball Academy.

In November 2011, Let Me Play launched 2 Futsal Academies in Ealing and Camden.

In March 2012, Let Me Play launched 2 more Futsal Academies in Fulham and Camden.

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Since inception, Let Me Play has had participants attend camps and tours from the following countries: America, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cayman Islands, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Lebanon, Lithuania, Netherlands, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Wales.

We have employed coaches from: America, Australia, Brazil, England, Lebanon, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Serbia, Wales.

Let Me Play's head office is based in London, England. We have an excellent management and administrative team, with 8 full time staff members based at the office. We also have a great pool of sports, dance, and activity coaches, with around 100 freelance coaches across London. Our client groups include local authorities, private companies, individuals, charities, schools and colleges. We also work with several community partners, including youth clubs, the metropolitan police, youth offending teams and professional football clubs. Let Me Play has worked with more than 100 schools and colleges across London over the past 2 years, and in 2010, Let Me Play put more than 80 young people through sports qualifications. Our numbers continue to grow and we running more programmes and engaging with more young people than ever before.

Let Me Play are now a Founder Member of Compass Association. Compass Association is a trade organisation that represents and promotes the interests of providers of services for physical activity and sport. Compass Association aims to provide professional standards for the industry of physical activity and sports specialists.

Our Philosophy

We embrace opportunities for all young people to experience and enjoy sport. We strive to provide valuable sporting experiences to young people while promoting education, healthy lifestyles and good citizenship. Through sport we believe that we can empower young people. We can engage and empower them to achieve more, do more and be the best that they can.

Child Protection

Child protection is of paramount importance to us. All of our coaches and support staff are vetted by the Criminal Records Bureau and we also take references from previous employers. If you would like a copy of our full Child Protection Policy, please email us; info@letmeplay.co.uk.

We are registered with Ofsted, a government agency set up to inspect and regulate in order to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people. Our Ofsted Voluntary Registration Number is VC366539.

Anti-Discrimination and Equal Opportunities

Sport belongs to and should be enjoyed by everyone equally. Let Me Play is committed to eliminate discrimination whether by reason of gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, colour, religion or ability and to encourage equal opportunities.

Child Protection

Child protection is of paramount importance to us. All of our coaches and support staff are vetted by the Criminal Records Bureau and we also take references from previous employers. Our employees undergo Child Protection Training. If you would like a copy of our full Child Protection Policy & Good Practice Guidelines, please email us at info@letmeplay.co.uk.