Sport2Live becomes foundation to expand sport-based recovery mission

Sport2Live has turned itself into a foundation, a move that gives Barcelona one of its most established sport-and-wellbeing groups a more durable base to grow. The change is meant to reinforce a social mission built over more than 13 years, while giving the organization a clearer structure for fundraising, partnerships, and long-term community programming.

That matters because Sport2Live is not operating like a typical fitness nonprofit. It says it has supported 2,127 patients, works with 25 trainers and 235 therapists, and is active across six territories: Barcelona, Tarragona, Girona, Lleida, the Balearic Islands, and Burgos. It also says it has 33 partner entities and 102 recovery and wellbeing programs, which puts it firmly in the middle of Barcelona’s wider health and inclusion network.

The group’s model has been taking shape since 2013, when it began working on addiction-related programs, and it expanded into therapeutic communities in 2015. In 2025, it says it ran 11 addiction programs with 13 groups. Its Barcelona inclusion profile says it works with people with drug dependency and offers supervised training up to five days a week, a detail that shows how tightly exercise is being used as part of structured recovery rather than as a side activity.

The foundation shift also gives that work a more professional frame. Sport2Live says it is certified by the College of Professionals of Physical Activity and Sport of Catalonia, and its public leadership includes co-founders Maria Rovira Font, Eduardo Torras Hijar, and Miquel Cirera Planas. The organization’s offices and training space are at C/ Còrsega 371, 2nd floor, in Barcelona, after it invested 5% of its 2022 budget in the remodel.

Its reach has also extended beyond addiction recovery. FC Barcelona Foundation has worked with Sport2Live and the Vidal i Barraquer Foundation on #EsportivaMent, a project in Santa Coloma de Gramenet that used sport to support the treatment of mood disorders among teenagers aged 13 to 17. Sport2Live also participates in Edu4Impact, a European project focused on inclusion, learning, and emotional wellbeing through sport.

For Barcelona’s fitness sector, the signal is clear: the real opportunity is no longer just memberships or performance. Sport2Live’s foundation model puts exercise closer to public health, social care, and reintegration, which is exactly where vulnerable communities need regular activity most.