{"id":1038945,"date":"2026-06-20T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1038945\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:12:23","slug":"motorpoint-leeds-is-sponsoring-youth-sports-teams-across-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1038945\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorpoint Leeds is sponsoring youth sports teams across the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Football-youth-generic-iStock.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Calling all youth sports teams in Leeds\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the opening of its\u00a0new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorpoint.co.uk\/stores\/leeds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds\u00a0store<\/a> in Holbeck on 10 July 2026, Motorpoint is looking to sponsor 22 youth sports teams in the city. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Covering the 2026\/27 season, the\u00a0used car retailer will be offering teams \u00a31,000\u00a0each\u00a0to be used towards new\u00a0kits,\u00a0equipment\u00a0and\u00a0competition fees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Located on Whitehall Road,\u00a0just a mile from the city centre and near Elland Road,\u00a0Motorpoint Leeds will have almost 300 cars on its pitch,\u00a0all available to drive away the same day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the sponsorship and why Motorpoint wanted to support community-led sports initiatives in the city\u00a0when opening its new store,\u00a0Dan Stevens, General Sales Manager at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorpoint.co.uk\/stores\/leeds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Motorpoint Leeds<\/a>, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen it came to\u00a0opening\u00a0our\u00a0new Leeds store, we wanted\u00a0to find a really\u00a0special way to celebrate.\u00a0We\u00a0know\u00a0how important\u00a0access to sports\u00a0is for\u00a0young\u00a0people, and that\u2019s\u00a0why we\u2019re so\u00a0happy to be\u00a0able to mark the opening of our 22nd\u00a0store by sponsoring 22 youth sports teams\u00a0across the city.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All under-16s sports teams across Leeds and the surrounding areas are invited to apply.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To enter, parents,\u00a0coaches\u00a0or teams themselves\u00a0simply need to register their interest\u00a0on the Motorpoint website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorpoint.co.uk\/company-news\/leeds-youth-sports-sponsorship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>www.motorpoint.co.uk\/company-news\/leeds-youth-sports-sponsorship<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This post is based on a press release issued by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorpoint.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Motorpoint<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: iStock<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>While you\u2019re here, can we ask a favour?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">South Leeds Life is published by a not-for-profit social enterprise. We keep our costs as low as possible but we\u2019ve been hit by increases in the print costs for our monthly newspaper which have doubled in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Could you help support local community news by making a one off donation, or even better taking out a supporters subscription?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Donate here, or sign up for a subscription at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SLLsubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>bit.ly\/SLLsubscribe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calling all youth sports teams in Leeds\u2026\u00a0 To celebrate the opening of its\u00a0new\u00a0Leeds\u00a0store in Holbeck on 10 July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1038946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,8915,393,33449,4884,1860,243061,103145,16,15,51103],"class_list":["post-1038945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-clubs","tag-england","tag-grassroots","tag-great-britain","tag-leeds","tag-motorpoint","tag-sponsorship","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-youth-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116782850415882700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1038946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}