Celebrating 15 Years of Partnership: Street League and CVC
As we mark Volunteers' Week 2025, we're proud to highlight the incredible impact of our partnership with CVC, Street League's longest-standing corporate partner.
Since our partnership began in 2010, CVC has played a vital role in helping young people across the UK build brighter futures through funding and consistent, meaningful volunteering that brings skills and confidence to life.
A key highlight of our collaboration is the Challenge Victory Cup, launched in 2012. What began as a small corporate football tournament has become a flagship event that rallies the City of London's business community around a shared cause: tackling youth unemployment through sport and skills.
This years’ event, taking place on Friday 6th June, will see 36 teams take part in our biggest tournament to date.
These unrestricted funds support Street League programmes in London, Leeds, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Birmingham, helping young people overcome barriers to employment and education.
Beyond the football pitch, CVC's support has extended to a wide range of skills-based volunteering. Over the years, CVC colleagues have taken part in:
1. Mock interviews
2. CV workshops
3. Volunteering at events such as the Challenge Victory Cup
Three virtual mock interview sessions are already planned for 2025. One of these, on 3 June, will be delivered in collaboration with CVC's Women's Network and Street League's GOAL Women's Empowerment Programme—a unique opportunity to create safe, inspiring spaces for young women to grow in confidence and career readiness. offering role models and insight that can have a lasting impact.
Volunteering at Street League is never just a formality. It is a powerful tool for change. When professionals from companies like CVC step into our spaces — whether virtually or in person—they help to:
1. Build young people's confidence in real-life scenarios
2. Offer practical, first-hand career insight
3. Create supportive environments for skill development
4. Inspire lasting motivation and self-belief
Many of these virtual sessions can be delivered flexibly, enabling volunteers from across the UK and beyond to contribute. This also means we can connect young people from any Street League location with professionals they might otherwise never meet.
"At Street League, volunteering isn't just a tick-box exercise – it's about creating meaningful moments that support a young person's journey. Even in a virtual environment, CVC volunteers bring genuine enthusiasm and empathy, helping young people build confidence within minutes, even if that's as simple as encouraging them to turn their cameras on and show their faces. It's a powerful example of two worlds coming together to make a real difference." Georgie Miles, Corporate Partnerships Manager, Street League
This Volunteers' Week, we're celebrating not just the years of partnership but the lives changed through connection, collaboration, and care. CVC's long-standing commitment to Street League is proof of what's possible when corporate support goes beyond sponsorship and becomes a force for fundamental social change.
We look forward to making 2025 our most impactful year yet—on and off the pitch.
