Safe Sport starts with you!
Congratulations on taking the first step toward creating safer sports environments! By visiting this page, you’ve already made a meaningful contribution to a growing movement that prioritises safety, inclusivity, and support in sports. Welcome to the BESST Project, an initiative dedicated to advancing safeguarding standards across Europe’s sports landscape.
BESST—Building European Safe Sport Together—aims to equip sports communities with the knowledge, tools, and frameworks to tackle all forms of transgressive behaviours. Our #SafeSportSunday campaign is your opportunity to amplify this mission! By joining, you’ll help raise awareness each week, challenge myths, and spread valuable resources to athletes, coaches, organisations, and fans alike. Together, we can make sports safer for everyone. Join us every Sunday and become part of the culture change in sports we all want to see and be part of!
You want to “walk the talk”? Let’s join forces!
#SafeSportSunday Materials
We developed a guide and accompanying materials to help partners participate effectively in the #SafeSportSunday Social media campaign. The campaign aims to dispel myths around safeguarding in sports, raising awareness for safer sports environments. Each Sunday encourages engagement with thought-provoking questions and guides audiences to valuable, free-to-use and hands-on resources at www.besst-safesport.eu.
Campaign Guide and accompanying materials
Campaign Guide
The #SafeSportSunday Campaign Guide provides organisations with a clear, structured approach to participate in the campaign, including access to ready-to-use media assets, editable templates, and suggested captions. It outlines a weekly engagement plan and details on tagging and hashtag strategies. It provides guidance on how to encourage interaction to maximize impact, all aiming to promote safer sports environments and dispel myths around safeguarding.
Proposed Captions
This Caption proposal provides ready-to-use captions, Call to Action and proposed Partner Tags and hashtags, making it easy to engage audiences and promote safeguarding standards effectively
Media Assets
Social Media Cards
A set of media-friendly graphics for a social media campaign designed to raise awareness and spark conversation around safeguarding. These cards are designed in a ‘clean’ (just BESST and QR-Code) style, with space for your logo or with BESST partner logos on it, reaching a broad audience effectively.
Social Media Cards – Customisable Canva Designs
Using editable Canva designs for the Safe Sport Sunday campaign offers great flexibility and ease for partners/individuals to dispel myths around safeguarding in sports with their specific community. Use these designs to translate the messages into your language or take steps to individualise the graphics in a most suitable way for your audience.
Example Facebook Post by project coordinator European Olympic Academies:
Animated Videos in Social Media Formats
A video explaining transgressive behaviour and safeguarding in sport in square, portrait to be spread on social media as a reel to raise awareness and educate your audience (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn…).
Example Instagram Post by project partner UEFA Foundation for Children
Complete #SafeSportSunday Toolkit
Full toolkit as a Google Drive folder
Includes the Campaign Guide, video snippet in different formats and Social Media Cards on Myths About Safe Sport (One released every Thursday till the end of 2024) and accompanying materials.
Access to all our toolkits
The BESST project is dedicated to empowering sports organisations across Europe to establish robust safeguarding frameworks. If you want to first educate yourself more about the project outcomes and proposed toolkits before partnering with us in our Safe Sport Sunday Campaign – Please navigate through our website or interact with one of our three essential tool types—framework tools, educational tools and awareness tools—designed to support organisations and individuals in implementing effective safeguarding practices within their own structures and among their member organisations. By using these resources, organisations can foster safer environments, educate all involved parties on safeguarding standards, and raise awareness of proactive behaviours to eradicate transgressive behaviour and unsafe practices from sport.
What best matches your objectives?
“I want to promote safeguarding”
Visit our awareness toolkit!
“I want to learn or teach safeguarding”
Visit our education toolkit!
“I want to develop or enhance policies”
