
Sports Chaplaincy UK
professional and amateur sport

professional and amateur sport

professional and amateur sport



Welcome to Sports Chaplaincy UK
There are hundreds of chaplains in the UK and Ireland, providing spiritual and pastoral care to professional and amateur sport. Sports Chaplaincy UK is increasingly involved in helping sporting organisations support, train and appoint sports chaplains.
Conferences
We host annual conferences in each of the home nations. Find out more
Activate Magazine
Activate Magazine is our annual magazine with the latest updates around Sports Chaplaincy UK. Find out more
Pastoral Support
Our main area of support is pastoral and spiritual care, we help support chaplains in a variety of sporting settings. Find out more
Recent News
Arthur Bowles – Tribute
26th January 2021
Scottish Director appears on Premier Christian Radio twice!
24th January 2021
Talking Point – Steve Jones
16th January 2021
Wycombe Wanderers Chaplain features on ‘Service of the airwaves’
1st January 2021
Sports Chaplaincy UK extends its work with Irish Football Association
10th December 2020
As a former player, coach and now manager I cannot recommend highly enough the vital role played by chaplains within football clubs.
Personally, I know the importance of chaplaincy in my life and I am delighted to be a patron of Sports Chaplaincy UK recognising the vital work of Chaplains within sport.
Sports Chaplaincy is a must have for 21st century athletes.
Chaplains can be of help to all sorts of people involved with sport, when crisis, need or difficulty comes. I commend the idea of sports chaplaincy and the work of Sports Chaplaincy UK to you.
Every athlete needs some kind of support and encouragement and a chaplain can be a valuable source of this support.
I think this sports chaplaincy is really important for players or coaches to have an avenue where they can go and deal with issues of life, not just rugby and sport, with someone who is impartial, totally confidential, and able to really help them in a pastoral way. I think it’s such a vital service because players and coaches alike, we suffer from a lot of things, life in general and not just sport and rugby things. There is a lot of issues that the players have to deal with. If you are a young man and you get injured it’s very serious and can affect you mentally. It is so important that players and coaches have that support and I think that a sports chaplain, along with many other things in their role, offers that.
I would encourage all players the importance of talking and getting off things of your chest. Chaplains need to remind the players that the support is there and they can talk to you about anything – talking is so important.