3 Points Sports

About

3 Points is a sporting project in Manchester designed to use team sports tournaments to bring together young people from different regions, backgrounds and ethnicities. We run 5v5 basketball tournaments for young people aged 15-21 with randomised teams which encourages the young people from different areas of Manchester to come together, socialize and ultimately learn off each other.When we began, we noticed the provisions for basketball in Manchester weighted more to south Manchester, this meant that other regions were underserved in comparison. Furthermore, we discovered that young people in Manchester were quite immobilized, so as a result tend to remain isolated in their communities. Some of these communities seemed to be disconnected both internally and externally. Our project addresses this problem of poor community cohesion and lack of mobility in Manchester by hosting 5v5 basketball tournaments in different areas of Manchester; hence encouraging young people to travel and explore outside of their individual territories. Our devised method of randomly selected teams pushes young people to socialise with other young people different from themselves. All the while promoting an active lifestyle of sports and networking.