Our Projects
We pride ourselves on all the varied projects we can offer to a wide variety of young people within the community, with the help of our amazing partners and volunteers.
Nightsafe
The ultimate goal is the all-round development of the latent potential of young people. We see sport as an innovative and positive vehicle that can develop life skills to a fuller potential. We aim to deliver projects that have long term lasting impacts on young people in the northwest. With the goal of helping towards their employability, advance their education, improve their health and mental wellbeing.
Inclusive Football League
The ultimate goal is the all-round development of the latent potential of young people. We see sport as an innovative and positive vehicle that can develop life skills to a fuller potential. We aim to deliver projects that have long term lasting impacts on young people in the northwest. With the goal of helping towards their employability, advance their education, improve their health and mental wellbeing.
Young Offenders Reform
Weekly sessions aimed at the self development of young offenders through a variety of physical activity.
Eccleston Equestrian Centre
We teamed up with Eccleston Equestrian Centre, to provide horse riding lessons for young children with learning difficulties. The sessions consisted of learning how to ride the horses, but also how to care for them day to day. The sessions were a great success and will be continued in the future.
Looked After Children's Football
Looked After Children’s football is weekly football/mulit-sport session for Looked After Children of Lancashire in partnership with Lancashire County Council and funded by Children in Need. The participants learn valuable skills from the project such as teamwork, confidence, communication, respect and fair play. As well as increasing their participation in sport and keeping them very fit, healthy and active.
All of the participants attending this project have gained a Sports Leader Certificate. Within this project we have also developed a fantastic mentoring scheme for the older participants to act as mentors to the younger participants, to encourage their participation and confidence, as well as acting as life coaches due to the fact that they have been through similar experiences to the younger children in care.
Sports Addict
This project runs in association with The Lifeline Project who are a substance misuse charity. To use sport as a tool to help steer vulnerable young people who are economically inactive away from crime/violence and anti-social behaviour into gainful employment. To help vulnerable16- 25 year olds gain qualifications by providing positive diversionary activities for young people in the local community as well as addressing issues that impact on them and supporting behaviour change. This will include young people that are: at risk of or involved in Antisocial Behaviour / Offending; homeless; NEET; at risk of sexual exploitation; involved in alcohol / substance abuse. The aim is to work with our partner agencies and engage with young people through sporting programmes alongside learning programmes offering basic English, maths and health education programmes including the effects that alcohol and drugs can have on young people. Ultimately helping the young people combat their substance misuse problems. Sport releases natural endorphins that help you young people realize sport and being healthy can be a much better substitute to substance misuse. The sport sessions act as a major incentive and pull for beneficiaries to attend their counseling sessions on a regular basis.
Let Kids Play!
“Let Kids Play” is a project in partnership with local Social Housing Associations who own stock in some of the most deprived wards in Lancashire, to provide weekly sport sessions for the young people living on their social housing estates, in order to tackle anti-social behaviour. The Housing Associations found that the majority of the petty crime and anti-social behaviour on their estates was being caused by young people aged 11-18, therefore this initiative was provided to give young people somewhere to go, to socialise and to keep off the streets as well as the added health benefits and an aim to improve landlord/tenant relations. The project is very inclusive due to the fact that OSF offers a variety of different sports within the “Let Kids Play” project and the sole aim is to keep young people active, healthy and taking part in sport as opposed to on the streets potentially causing anti-social behavior. As part of the project the participants are encouraged to take up our mentoring scheme (similar to Looked After Children’s) whereby an older participant mentors, encourages and socialises with a younger participant. We also provide the young people with the Sports Leader Certificate and via multi-agency working we are able to signpost the young people to organisations such as FE providers, Connexions, and The Young Peoples Service.
Onside Project - The FA
The Onside Project is a project in partnership with respite centres and Special Educational Needs Schools across Lancashire. All of the participants are aged 7-15 and have severe learning difficulties.
The aims of this project are to provide children with severe learning difficulties with an opportunity to socialise and interact, provide respite to the families and carers of the participants, ensures the young people are fit, healthy and active as well as improving their own self-confidence, social-awareness and self-esteem and overall to improve their functional status and quality of life.
The session focuses on generic adapted multi-sports coaching and the coaches delivering the session have all taken part in the Football Associations’ disability football coaching course.
SEN/ Disability Football - Sport England
SEN/Pan disability football is a project designed for participants with emotional and behavioural difficulties such as autism, ADHD and asperges. The project is National Lottery, Sport England and Lancashire Sport Funded.
The project aims to improve young people with EBD self-esteem, their confidence as well as teaching important values such as respect, fair play and teamwork.
The session provides the participants with an opportunity to socialise and interact with others with similar difficulties and makes them feel included and part of a team
