Canny Play for sport that people care about.

Inspiring fandom and participation through strategy, creating content and campaigns, and developing product…

we build the habits that are the foundation of building and enabling active participation,…

we help partners identify where you fit in empowering communities through sport,…

and set the foundations for sustained growth, and excellence in experience and performance.

Mike founded Canny Play to specialise in reaching new audiences, speaking to those who are still finding their home in sport, and to use sport to build better futures. Over ten years working with BBC Sport, Premier League, UEFA, Public Health England, London Marathon Events, Team GB and others, Mike has witnessed the power sport has to bring people together. We’re now using that influence to create space for the best in people’s nature to flourish, and bring mass audiences to participate and start their own relationships with sport.

Women’s sport is powering a rapid evolution in how values, authenticity and openness is becoming a commercial engine, as well as a sign to all that you are welcome. It is those values that has driven Mike’s decade and more in sport, as well as award-winning product development in education and health in the ten years prior. Come as you are.

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