Thank you everyone!2 months ago
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Shine is an inclusive out of school club offering a safe and enriching environment and enabling parents to work knowing their children are having fun, enjoying a snack, learning and making friends.
Our passion is to provide high quality after-school care for children aged between 3 and 10 from a range of Evesham schools, while parents/carers have to work or study. We provide both formal and informal opportunities for all those who attend to enable them to SHINE in their individual ways. As an inclusive provision we cater for all children including those with autism, refugees and most recently a wheelchair user who has never been able to access such provision before. We currently operate a 'walking bus' to collect our children from their various schools but would like a minibus to enable us to collect more children, from more schools, more efficiently. As our numbers are now increasing, we may have up to 12 children to collect from a school. This makes the 'walking bus' an unpleasant and more dangerous activity in our crowded footpaths,
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Why it's a great idea:
In these challenging times parents/carers are having to work longer hours and need to be confident about the care their children receive after school. More people will be able to enter paid employment, or extend their hours if we can have a wider reach across schools. The children have wonderful opportunities to develop or learn new skills in a stimulating environment with good indoor and outdoor spaces. We also provide snacks as children always work up an appetite at school!
Steps to get it done:
A minibus will enable us to offer more rewarding activities to children attending our HAF clubs eg trip to farm parks or the seaside,
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Brilliant news, thanks everyone!
It is a bit of a surprise to see our target is reduced. There are two reasons we have been permitted to do this. Firstly, our numbers have increased and moving 12 children via the ‘walking bus’ through our busy towns on narrow streets. The size of the bus we originally costed would be too small, so we now need to look at a 15-17 seater, still accessible for a wheelchair. Secondly, there seem to be more minibuses available now - perhaps a result of the rising fuel costs. The availability of more and larger ‘buses has meant more competitive prices. Spacehive have permitted us to reduce our target to reflect these factors.
How will the money be spent?Total £19,364
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Total £19,364
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VolunteerWe are a charity formed in April 2015, as a not-for-profit community initiative specifically to support parents and carers with after school and holiday care. We are based in Evesham Methodist Church Hall on Bridge Street, Evesham.
We have an amazing Manager, Kelly, who ensures that our children have stimulating and varied experiences during their time with us. We pride ourselves on our inclusion credentials accepting children with autism, refugee children and differently-able children.
Currently our children are collected by ‘walking bus’ from their schools and nurseries, but as we increase in numbers of children and schools we serve, this is becoming very time-consuming; time we could be spending in formal and informal activities. We also have a wheelchair user who would benefit from an accessible minibus.
We would like to purchase an adapted minibus to make the collection of children more efficient and speedy, but this is a huge investment for a small charity such as ourselves.
We have a very competitive charging policy and provide subsidies in specific circumstances to enable as many parents/carers as possible to access the opportunities we offer. We accept a range of methods of payment - BACS, Tax Free Childcare, Childcare Vouchers and 30 hours funding may be available for eligible 3 and 4 year olds.
The club is open from 3-6pm to children aged 3-10, and we offer holiday clubs during much of the Christmas, Easter and Summer holidays. We provide tea and fresh fruit to eat daily at our after-school club and there is a choice of lunches at our holiday clubs.
We are OfSTED registered, and our ast inspection rated us as OUTSTANDING.
Project Owner: Shine Out of School Clubs The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
