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We want to keep the children of Speke active and engaged by hosting a fundraising competition. This will be held in Speke to welcome the whole community with dancing, activities and fun prizes.
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We are a group of people from a deprived area in Speke who run a Majorette Troupe. We provide weekly dancing sessions and competitions open to children from the local area. We have 45 kids, ages range from 3-18 enrolled of all abilities, some who have mental health issues. We would like to apply for funding to hold a Competition Fun Day in Speke to recruit more kids and raise funds for the future of the Troupe. We need Hall Hire, food, drinks, decorations, goods for stalls and other activities. With the funds we make from this day we then hope to be able to buy Uniforms, Batons and Trophies aswell as Hall and Bus Hire for the 21/22 season. We have been restricted on how we can fundraise due to Covid so without fundraising it may mean that we will be unable to function financially. This means without our care and engagement our children may break long lasting friendships and more importantly be on the streets potentially causing anti social behaviour and turning to crime due to boredom.
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Why it's a great idea:
We encourage kids to be active, develop healthy habits, discipline and routine. We provide a way for families to forge friendships and offer particular support for those kids with special needs who struggle in school or find it difficult to make friends to become a part of a larger family while support and nurture them. It is paramount to keep children in Speke in these type of fun active groups as this is such a deprived area and very little to keep kids off the streets and engaged. We feel proud that we are preventing this group and hopefully many more who we hope will join us from getting into trouble in the local and wider areas. We take he children to many parts of the UK each week aswell as a weekend in Wales at the end of the season. For some of our children this is the only holiday they will have. We feel that this in itself provides a level of education and nurtures their development.
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Any funding you are able to offer will make a massive difference to us as a group and our children. We love our Mersebeat family and despite the awful year this far with Covid and isolation preventkng us being together we look forward to next year and bouncing back to smash our dancing competitions and bring home as many trophies as we can.
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Giving people the opportunity to imagine, fund & create projects that bring their local area to life
How will the money be spent?Target (inc. fees) £2,114
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We are a not for profit Majorette Troupe based in Speke, Liverpool. We run weekly training sessions and competitions for our 45 kids ranging from age 3 to 18. All our kids are amazing and put 110% into every training session and when they are out on the dancing arena each week in competitions.
Our children range in ability and are supported by all of our trainers, parents and volunteers to be their best. These people put much of thieir spare time into the kids. We also have kids with mental health issues who may have struggle at school or find it difficult to make friends but absolutely flourish with us
Competition days are were the kids come into their own. We travel the UK and take them to Wales for an end of season championship weekend. For some of these children coming from poor families in a deprived area, it's the only time they leave the local area and have a holiday.
We keep them active by training, off the streets and engaged in a fun hobby but also teach them routine and discipline. This has shown to improve their confidence, hell them forge relationships and enjoy school life much more.
We rely on fundraising to function and due to Covid we havent been able to reach anywhere near our target to continue for the 2021 season. We organise bag packs, sponsored activities, raffles and dancing in the local area to raise funds which has been impossible due to the pandemic.
We desperately need new uniforms, batons, hall hire to train and cover bus hire to travel to our competitions. Without this important funding we would not be able to continue and this would be devastating for us all.
We charge the kids a small cost to train each week and towards bus fares. This jo way covers what we need to spend out each week. Most families would not be able to afford a rise in charges or bus fares so this is why we fundraise.
We want to hold a fundraising competition day in 2021 in our local area and need funding for this due to the reasons above. We need food, drinks, decorations and goods for stalls and activities. We will hope to recruit many more families and children from the local area to join us.
By doing this we enrol more families and get kids off the streets and out of trouble by giving them a hobby that keeps them engaged and active.
This funding would mean the world to our kids and to us. We have been going for 23 years his year and hope to still be here in in another 23 years time.
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