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By Northfields Adventure Playground
The idea is to run a six week youth project throughout the summer holidays, involving police talks, cooking classes, sexual awareness, health and hygiene, performing arts and charity work.
Sorry this project was unsuccessful, we did not reach our fundraising goal.
We will run a 6 week youth club for young people aged 12-17. The sessions will run from 5-8pm on Tuesday and Thursday and 1-5pm on a Saturday giving the children 18 sessions over 6 weeks. Although we will offer the standard youth equipment such as pool, table tennis, arts and crafts, sports, structures and chase games etc, we will add educational class from the local police and other professionals and use them as a tool for the young people to earn free time.
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
-The young people have asked for this project themselves. -Our staff team and our polices, procedures and risk assessments are already in place. -We already have the equipment -We have up to 5 year relationships with some of the young people. -The young people will be choosing to take part in something positive and will learn skills that will help them progress into adults. - The young people will liaise with professionals such as police in a positive manner. -The young people will take part in exercise and activities surrounding personal care and being active. -Young people will have access to specialised equipment and learning such as DJing, dance, drumming. All things that they may not have access to due to social backgrounds. -Young people will be in a safe positive environment, away from temptations of the local estate. -Young people will be educated by positive role models.
Steps to get it done:
The project will be reward based meaning that children and young people will need to earn free time by taking part in educational things such as a police talk on gun and knife crime or litter pick the local park to then earn leisure time. We all ready have a large group of young people that have been attending the playground since the age of 6 so they are used to working together and helping jobs at they playground, all to of them are happy to help and we hope that they will set a good example to new users. The reason that this project has been brought to light is because our youth funding got cut 4 years ago and that left us with mainly 5-12 year olds. 4 years later most are hitting puberty and they do not have their own space or targeted activities and all though the need is there and the staff are prepared to take on the work, we do not have the budget or the time during our normal sessions to meet the needs.
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We have been in contact with our local police and community support officers and they are right behind us. Our officers are very interactive and helpful to the area and since we have contacted them about our project, they have agreed and are glad to potentially be involved in something that has many benefits to the community. This will be done via the visits and talks they will give to our youth club about topics such as knife, gang and other crime awareness. This confirmation was great news to us and has definitely got the ball rolling with our idea of having visits from uniformed services and other professionals.
Our young people are doing there bit to drive our wanted Youth Club! They are extremely fond of the idea and are overflowing with ideas and excited for the potential things we have in store for them if we are a success. But not to get things twisted, they are aware that there is a chance this may not happen and that it is all down to crowdfunding, so they are doing their little bit here and there, from poster making, to participating in advertising our project, all in order to make our 'crowd' bigger and stronger than ever. Are you joining our journey? Thank you and lets keep going!
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How will the money be spent?Total £5,081
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Total £5,081
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VolunteerNorthfields Adventure Playground is a charity-based organization ran by a voluntary management committee built from parents and ex users in the local area. We provide safe, stimulating play activities for children 6-16 years and have been doing so successfully for over 35 years. We aim to be fully inclusive and all children are treated as individuals with individual needs. The children socialise, build lasting friendships and learn to take acceptable risks in a controlled environment supervised and supported by our fully trained staff team in order to facilitate on all levels.
We have a large outside area with many different levels of structure leading to a giant slide, a sports area, rope swings, sandpit, a fruit n vegetable patch, a nature walk and more to cater for all ages and stages. Inside we have Internet access for games and homework, pool tables, table tennis, over 10's youth room, a dance studio and a sensory room. We encourage children to learn key skills such as cooking, personal hygiene and recycling. Children/young people are actively encouraged to engage in physical activities ranging from dance, drama, tag, hide and seek, tennis, football, cricket and more. We like to offer opportunities to take part in a range of activities to help them grow into themselves as they progress on to adulthood, a lot of which they would not otherwise have access to.
The playground strives to eradicate racial and social barriers and encourage children to integrate with others in a safe and positive environment. Our staff team work around the clock to secure funding and specialized equipment to ensure that our work ethos is met. Over the years we have worked hard to make our setting inclusive for those with additional needs ranging from mild to severe learning difficulties and we are currently able to offer one2one support via our additional needs worker.
Our after school club runs 5 days a week during term time and we run a playscheme during the school holidays. We are only closed for 2 weeks of the year excluding bank holidays.
Project Owner: Northfields Adventure Playground The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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