Right to Dream Marks 2025 Safe Sport Day

Right to Dream has joined organisations across six continents in marking the 2025 International Safe Sport Day.

Held annually on August 8, Safe Sport Day is an opportunity to reflect on progress, raise awareness, and reaffirm the global commitment to making sport a safe, inclusive, and empowering environment for athletes.

This year’s theme — “Celebrating the People Who Make Sport Safe” — shines a spotlight on the individuals whose everyday actions help create safer sporting spaces.

Why This Year’s Theme Resonates

From coaches and teammates to educators and safeguarding leads, Right to Dream’s global community is full of people who quietly, consistently work to ensure young talents feel safe — on every pitch, in every academy, and across every part of our environment.

Their efforts are a powerful example of how, at Right to Dream, safeguarding is not a one-off initiative. It is a daily practice and a shared responsibility, woven into how we train, lead, listen, and grow.

As Group Safeguarding Lead Carmella Pugh explains: “We remain committed to making safeguarding everyone's responsibility and to promote safe sport through our networks, leading by example and working towards a world where every child is protected, empowered and able to thrive.”

Safeguarding as a Daily Practice

Over the past 12 months, Right to Dream has taken further steps to strengthen safeguarding across our academies and clubs, including:

• Improved internal reporting tools.

• Enhanced safeguarding training across our academies and clubs.

• Continued to embed safeguarding into daily practices.

Part of a Global Commitment

This year, Right to Dream also took the global pledge, joining more than 200 organisations — including the International Olympic Committee and the Commonwealth Games Federation — committed to making sport safe for every child.

Safe Sport Day was first launched in 2020 out of the International Safeguards for Children in Sport Initiative, designed to both celebrate progress and motivate new commitments to athlete protection.