Driving Evesham children to Shine

Funded on
31 Mar 2023

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.

£19,426 Raised of £19,365

77 Backers

100%

Updates

Driving Evesham children to Shine published their Delivery Report!9 months ago

Thank you everyone!3 years ago

We are very excited to have reached our target and we would like to thank everyone for all pledges large and small, especially Worcestershire and Wychavon. Our children are VERY excited and grateful!

Driving Evesham children to Shine hit its fundraising target!3 years ago

Brilliant news, thanks everyone!

Wychavon District Council pledged £2,1313 years ago

3 years ago We've hit our target

79 Donations worth £2,0803 years ago

Almost at new target!3 years ago

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.

Driving Evesham children to Shine started fundraising!3 years ago

Driving Evesham children to Shine verified by Spacehive.3 years ago

Driving Evesham children to Shine started fundraising!3 years ago

http://www.shineoutofschoolclubs.org

We 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.