Moseley School Children playing Cricket

Local Leagues were running many activities over the summer. The following is a reference to many of the activities that were taking place and the number of children that were taking part / benefiting from these activities as well as the daily sessions.

Summer Period Daily Activities

Attock Cricket Club

During 2005’s summer programme, we used our links with Attock Cricket Club to provide Cricket sessions every day of the week throughout the holiday between 10.00am - 4.00pm, with the exception of Friday when sessions ran from 10.00am till 1.00pm. There were always two qualified members of staff running the sessions together with additional support staff, most of whom were players and coaches for the club. This meant the children were being offered the chance to learn new skills off some of the best players in the city.

Date: August 2005 – September 2005

Activity: Cricket

Age(s): 7 – 12 years old

Registrations: 50 young persons registered

Total Beneficiaries: 33

Total Over 6 Wks: 300 beneficiaries

Ethnicity:
White 1
Mixed Race 0
Asian 32
Black 0
Other 0

Moseley School

For the duration of the six weeks holiday, we also decided to run a Summer Scheme at Moseley School to accommodate children from Sparkhill Park, Farm Park and Henry Barber Park. There was a bus service put in place to pick up children from the above parks and take them to Moseley School. There was obviously a return bus available at the end of the session to take these children back to the parks that they were picked up from. The sessions at Moseley school were led by Phil McKeever.

The first few days were sluggish with only a hand full of children turning up. However, we carried out further promotion mainly through flying and word of mouth which had an immediate impact on the number of children turning up. Numbers were anything between 15 – 25 children per day thereafter.

Many activities were offered to the children such as cricket, baseball, and tennis, but football, as usual, seemed to be the game of choice. We encouraged a change of sport and a session of baseball was agreed to. The children found that they did actually enjoy this sport which we felt was an encouraging sign.

There was a slight lull in attendance again as some children were reluctant to get on a bus and travel to another place / park that was not their usual familiar surroundings. The drop in numbers was further contributed by some children attending bullying others. This was not a known issue at the time and only came to light after a fight broke out on the on the bus. Some children stayed away after this possibly for fears of reprisals and repercussions of the fight.

Overall though, the Moseley School sessions were by and large a success with at least 15 regular children attending everyday throughout the six weeks. Nevertheless, lessons have been learnt from the summer sessions at Moseley School and all the Local Leagues staff involved will surely have learnt from there experiences and will use this to make it more successful next year.

Events At Moseley:

Date: January 2005

Activity: Football

Age(s): 13 years old

Registrations: 54 young persons registered

Total Over 10 Wks: 540 beneficiaries

Ethnicity:
White 2
Mixed Race 0
Asian 50
Black 2
Other 0

Date: January 2005 – April 2006

Activity: Football League

Age(s): 7 – 13 years old

Registrations: 34 young persons registered

Total Over 60 Wks: 2,040 beneficiaries

Ethnicity:
White 9
Mixed Race 4
Asian 10
Black 9
Other 2

Again, the number of beneficiaries exceeded the amount of registration forms Phil received back.

Date: 13th January 2006 – 25th March 2006

Activity: Football

Age: 7 – 13 years old

Registrations: 33 young persons registered

Total Beneficiaries: 45

Total Over 10 Wks: 330 beneficiaries

Ethnicity:
White 0
Mixed Race 0
Asian 31
Black 2
Other 0

The actual number of beneficiaries was 45. This was because some children were already registered for other activities and therefore had filled in a form and are included on the register.

Date: 25th July 2005 – 2nd September 2005

Activity: Summer Activities (mixed sport)

Age(s): Under 13 years old

Beneficiaries: 25 per day

Ethnicity:
White 0
Mixed Race 0
Asian 0
Black 0
Other 0

No information on the ethnicity of the beneficiaries was requested on the forms used during this event.

Calthorpe Park

Calthorpe Park has always received good numbers, mainly because we have been working within the park for the last nine years and are based only a few hundred yards away. This summers programme was no exception with Steve Mulley (Head Coach at the park) receiving 74 consent forms from children between the ages of 7 to 15 from all backgrounds and religions and sustaining an average attendance of 36 children every day. The activities were a success with smiles all round.

The average number of children per day: 36.

Consent forms received: 74.