WIN £1,000 in sporting equipment and a place on the Lidl Sport for Good Schools Programme 2025-26.

With 44% of young people in Northern Ireland having experienced a mental health problem*, participation in sport has never been as important as it provides young people with a boost to social skills, self-esteem and body confidence as well as a life-long support network of friends and mentors.

That's why Lidl have teamed up with Youth Sport Trust, the UK&I’s leading charity improving young people’s education and development through sport, to offer 25 secondary schools across NI the opportunity to participate in the Lidl Community Works Sport for Good schools programme.

With a nationwide team of specially trained elite athletes at the ready, we are committed to teaching students about the long-term physical and mental health benefits of sports participation. These athlete mentors will run workshops and take sessions with the students that will help increase their confidence and resilience while also providing them with tools to help manage their own mental health into adulthood.

On top of all that, each chosen school will also receive £1,000 in brand new sporting equipment of their choice.

Nominations for the 2025-26 programme will open soon. Check back here again for more details!

Rhys McClenaghan - Gymnastics

Rhys McClenaghan is a World, European and Commonwealth champion gymnast who specialises in the pommel horse discipline. A trailblazer for sure, in 2018 Rhys won Northern Ireland’s first ever artistic gymnastics medal at the Commonwealth Games and became Ireland’s first ever European champion, when aged just 19. He also picked up a bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships and has since become the first Irish gymnast to qualify for an Olympics gymnastics final at the Tokyo 2020 Games. In 2022, he broke further ground by becoming the first ever gymnastics World Champion from the island of Ireland.