CASE STUDIES
Chantelle has been attending the “Let Kids Play” project for over a year. She is a few years older than the other participants so we advised her to take up our mentoring scheme and she has also completed the Sports Leader Certificate. The session that Chantelle attends is based around netball; Chantelle has developed a love and a passion for the sport and has even attended the England Netball’s Youth Umpire Award as a result of the project. She said “I loved coming to the weekly netball session, I’d never really played it before and it was so much fun! The coach encouraged me to do the sports leader and then she managed to get me on the youth umpiring award! I now help her coach the sessions and plan warm ups and drills by myself”
Chantelle Kellett
Jamie has been taking part in the “Let Kids Play” project for a year now, he was in his final year of school when he first started to attend the sessions. When we asked him what he wanted to do after he left school at the time he didn’t have any idea. After completing the Sports Leader Certificate on the project he decided he really wanted to help young children stay out of trouble just as the project did for him. Jamie said “coming to the weekly football session made me realise there’s more to life than just hanging around with your mates, the coaches got me an appointment with the young people’s service and I think I’m going to go to college and do BTEC public services. I’ve stopped smoking too!”
Jamie Mckenna
One of our most improved and successful participants from the Looked After Children’s Football is Andy Hawkes. If Andy weren’t coming to the project he would be messing about with this mates or the carers from the home. On the project he said he has “loved playing footy, meeting new friends and being able to keep fit”. He said he “love coaching the little kids and helping set the sessions up. I get on well with the coaches and they have put me through my level one coaching course which was good and then I actually received some work off OSF coaching on their other projects”. Andy has also stopped smoking as a result of the project. He is now going onto do Sport at his chosen FE college. When we asked how the project has affected him he said, “It gave me something to do because it was better than just sitting in the home because I am in care. I’m much fitter and healthier now. I found a new interest in football and now I play American football too and I’m going to go to college and do a BTEC in Sport. I definitely feel closer to the other kids in the home and my key worker as a result of this project and it has helped shape my future”. In the future Andy wants to hopefully do some more coaching and he has ambitions of travelling to America to do Soccer Camps.
Andy Hawke
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