SPRINGFIELD BOYS' CLUB 

The funding will be used to cover the associated costs to build an extension to the centre which delivers youth activities. The project aims to create a space for young people to come together and ....more

The funding will be used to cover the associated costs to build an extension to the centre which delivers youth activities. The project aims to create a space for young people to come together and create new opportunities.

We will use the additional top-up grant to contrubute towards the cost of supporting the training and development of another young person to achive a coaching award and other certificals such as ....more

We will use the additional top-up grant to contrubute towards the cost of supporting the training and development of another young person to achive a coaching award and other certificals such as First Aid, Mental Health First Aid and Safeguarding. This will mean we will have a team of three young leaders working alongside professionally qualified coaches and youth workers who have demonstarted their competence to work with young people who have low rates of participation.

The Springfield Centre has used physical activity (not organised sport in the recent past) to improve the physical health and well-being of young people attending the Youth Centre. It has a sports ....more

The Springfield Centre has used physical activity (not organised sport in the recent past) to improve the physical health and well-being of young people attending the Youth Centre. It has a sports hall and outside multi-use games area and football pitch all of which prior to the pandemic have been used both formally through hire to a local football club or informally through open access. For the last five years we have run a Summer Transition Camp based on three themes Respect, Resillient and Ready which has helped in excess of a 100 young people develop life skills sufficient to help them transition succesfully to Secondary School. The project included a residential based entirely on outdoor activities. Throughout the pandemic we have continued to support over 150 young people on the doorsteps with food, some craft activity and two physical challenges. The Youth centre has a track record of working with young people since the 1960's. We have a current programme with a vision is to help all our children and young people to explore, to dream, to believe and to achieve. Our mission is to provide the space and opportunity for inclusive recreational, educational, cultural, work readiness, sporting programmes and services, to improve the physical, mental and emotional health and well-being of children and young people living in and around the BD10/2 areas of Bradford by working in partnership to raise the attainment of children at risk from the impacts of low attainment, poverty and criminal activity. Our strategy is to ensure that young people can participate in a range of activities that ensure they are ‘literate for life’ by arranging our programme around 5 key themes. Play and Move, Learn, Think and Feel, Live and Lead and Explore. In the light of the impact of the pandemic and having to rebuild our finances we are currently reviewing our current offer though reserach and consultation with children and young people, our neighbours, other professionals and organisations that come into contact with the centre. This reseach has led us to apply for funding to rebuild our programme with more emphasis on physical activity. We have been succesful with a lottery bid for Springfield Fit Kids. The overall programme (both the exsisting and the work being done to revise it post-Covid) is designed to work towards helping young people to develop thier life skills and their fitness to improve thier mental health and well-being. All our contact with all young people purposefully enages them with the aim of helping them to understand where their behaviour becomes anti-social and diverting them from activities that put them at risk of being drawn into criminal activity. We are currently under-performing in helping young people into work. Our Springfield Fit Kids programme creates the opportunity for training to be a coach and a first aider. The centre also offers volunteering experinces for young people as one mechanism to develop employability skills.

The new project pilot will deliver twice weekly fitness classes in an underused youth centre for young people aged 10 and upwards who have experienced isolation loss of structure and routine through ....more

The new project pilot will deliver twice weekly fitness classes in an underused youth centre for young people aged 10 and upwards who have experienced isolation loss of structure and routine through lockdown. Its aim is to improve wellbeing build confidence manage anxiety and increase self-esteem.

Grant to Springfield Boys Club ( known as Springfield Centre)

We will offer 4 hours a day of play, creative, physical, issue based and learning activities with two free meals provided to each participant each day, in two settings across BD10 (Breakfast and ....more

We will offer 4 hours a day of play, creative, physical, issue based and learning activities with two free meals provided to each participant each day, in two settings across BD10 (Breakfast and Lunch) 4 days a week for 4 weeks of the summer Holidays 16 sessions each.

We would like to run 4 evenings, a week for 12 weeks of activities including sports coaching, cook and eat workshops, Creative arts and Drama to provide the opportunity for 40 young people to engage ....more

We would like to run 4 evenings, a week for 12 weeks of activities including sports coaching, cook and eat workshops, Creative arts and Drama to provide the opportunity for 40 young people to engage and learn new skills and the possible training, career and employment opportunities associated with such activities such as sports coaching, PE teacher, working in film and media, catering and hospitality. Whilst doing so we will be exploring the training and educational routs to achieving this and how young people can be supported into higher and further education and gaining qualifications and skills to improve access.

The group will run school holiday activities for local children and young people. This will provide opportunities to participate in structured, positive activities and access to a healthy meal, with ....more

The group will run school holiday activities for local children and young people. This will provide opportunities to participate in structured, positive activities and access to a healthy meal, with the aim of reducing social isolation and holiday hunger.