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Allianz and the Youth Sport Trust to help UK school children ‘MoveNow’ with launch of nationwide festivals

Posted: 27 February 2024

Following the success of the Dare To Believe Festivals in 2016 and 2018 Allianz in the UK is working with the Youth Sport Trust to launch the MoveNow Festivals for 2024. Aimed at secondary school children the 20 inclusive festivals will introduce them to Olympic and Paralympic sports in a fun and relaxed environment.

Each Festival will be run by Youth Sport Trust Athlete Mentors, Young Leaders and Allianz volunteers with the opportunity to try sports and activities at local aspirational facilities. The launch event took place at the Lee Valley Athletics centre in London on the 29th January for over 100 children, with the next Festivals scheduled for Birmingham in February and Bristol, Milton Keynes, Manchester and Guildford in March. The remaining Festivals are scheduled throughout the year in locations ranging from Bournemouth to Glasgow. This mapping gives as many children as possible the opportunity to take part and enables Allianz employees to support their communities through volunteering at the events.

Colm Holmes, CEO, Allianz UK

About Allianz Holdings plc

Allianz Holdings plc is the non-regulated holding company which owns the principal insurance operations of Allianz SE in Great Britain including Allianz Insurance

About Allianz

The Allianz Group is one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers with more than 122 million* private and corporate customers in more than 70 countries. Allianz customers benefit from a broad range of personal and corporate insurance services, ranging from property, life and health insurance to assistance services to credit insurance and global business insurance. Allianz is one of the world’s largest investors, managing around 717 billion euros** on behalf of its insurance customers. Furthermore, our asset managers PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors manage about 1.7 trillion euros** of third-party assets. Thanks to our systematic integration of ecological and social criteria in our business processes and investment decisions, we are among the leaders in the insurance industry in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In 2022, over 159,000 employees achieved total revenues of 152.7 billion euros and an operating profit of 14.2 billion euros for the group***.

*Including non-consolidated entities with Allianz customers.

**As of March 31, 2023

***As reported – not adjusted to reflect the application of IFRS 9 and IFRS 17.

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