🏊 Water Safety with BSA & Victory Academy
For the past 12 weeks, we've worked with The Black Swimming Association and The Victory Academy to design and deliver a life saving water safety programme. With drowning ranking among the leading causes of accidental death, claiming the lives of approximately 400 people each year, it's crucial to equip young people with life-saving skills and knowledge.
Our programme supported and empowered a group of 17 young people from The Victory Academy who lacked swimming proficiency to become competent swimmers and advocates of water safety. In addition to their weekly pool sessions, the programme provided unique opportunities to explore aquatic-related careers. Through a range of enrichment activities, participants gained invaluable insights into different aspects of the aquatic industry.
The first activity was discovering the world of managing the River Thames at Port Of London Authority and learning about the heroic efforts of the RNLI at their Gravesend Lifeboat Station.
Later in the programme they headed to London to visit Sky Studios for a hands-on broadcast production experience and to produce their own water safety news reel.
At Pentland Brands with Gung Ho they were immersed into aquatics branding and public relations.
The final enrichment activity took place at Chatham Maritime Watersports Centre where attendees learnt the art of kayaking and put their team working skills to the test with a raft build, race activity and recorded a water safety rap.
Throughout the programme, we documented the transformative journey of these young individuals, capturing their growth and achievements. These experiences were compiled into a 10-minute film, which was screened for the first time at a celebration event.
We’re proud to say that this programme, delivered in collaboration with The Black Swimming Association and The Victory Academy, has equipped these young people with life-saving water safety skills, as well as providing exposure to broader aquatic careers.
🎾 The Championships, Wimbledon 2023
On Saturday, July 8th, we had an incredible time at The Championships, Wimbledon, with both new and old participants of our LTA Serves Tennis Programme.
Despite the relentless rain, our spirits remained high as we witnessed the skills of two-time Grand Slam champion Petra Kvitova on Court 2 and had the chance to explore the fantastic facilities of the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club.
Thanks to the Lawn Tennis Association for giving us this amazing opportunity. Here's some of the fun we got up to!
🏀 April Fit & Fed 2023
You guessed it, in April we had our Fit & Fed programme continue thanks to the support of Medway Go.
This time around we ran for four days, Monday to Thursday, for the 1st week of the Easter half term.
Despite the temperamental weather, over 55 young people joined us each day to be immersed in a world of sporting and creative activities provided by Nucleus Arts, Olympia Boxing, Sport On Your Doorstep, Street Games, etc.
Here’s a glimpse of the fun we got up to this time around!
🎄 Festive Fit & Fed
You guessed it, in December we had our 2nd festive Fit & Fed thanks to the support of Medway Go and another kind donation of food items from the Morrisons in Walderslade.
Using a similar format to our programme in October, we ran for three days in the lead-up to Christmas, though this time we welcomed back Mike our community chef who each day delivered a hot delicious nutritious lunch. Despite the wet weather and no access to the school field, it was our busiest Christmas period to date with over 50 young people joining us each day to be immersed in a world of sporting and creative activities provided by Nucleus Arts, Olympia Boxing, Sport On Your Doorstep, Street Games, etc.
We were also delighted to be joined by Luton’s very own Santa Claus for the last day to bring some festive joy.
Here’s a glimpse of the fun we got up to this time around!
Spring Fit & Fed 🏸
Thanks to our partners and Medway Go, we were out again running Fit & Fed for two sessions a day over four days this spring half term at Luton Primary School.
Medway Eyes at Luton Primary School
February Fit & Fed 🏓
Thanks to the support of our partners, we were out running Fit & Fed again this windy and wet February half-term.
Despite the weather, we were able to continue to offer more than just multisports this time around too, as Nucleus Arts joined us again twice a day.
The icing on the cake for this half term was Mike, the community chef, who joined us on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday making nutritious quesadillas, nachos and tacos with our young people. See you all in easter 🐣
Fit & Fed October 2021 ⛹️
Thanks to our partners, we were able to continue our expanded Fit & Fed programme over the October 2021 school holiday at Luton Primary School. Similar to our fantastic summer programme, we were able to offer more than just multisports this time around too, Nucleus Arts joined us twice a day over the week and Creatabot pop in too, for a myriad of creative and engaging activities.
Fit & Fed Summer 2021 ⛹️
Thanks to our partners and Medway Go, our expanded Fit & Fed programme this summer was a huge success! Not only was there multisports this term, we had everything from kayaking to t-shirt print making, local young people took part in many engaging sporting and creative activities over the course of four weeks.Read more
Community Allotment Update 🌻
Whilst it's been all hands on deck at Fit & Fed, Hazel's been very busy at our community allotment!
Over 40 raised beds have been created to enable local people to adopt them and grow a myriad of fruit and veg without having to commit to a full sized allotment. 10 raised beds have already been adopted by local people with plans to personalise them in bold colours. There are 34 more to paint and loads of non-gardening projects in hand. Are you interested in adopting a planter? Get in touch!
In addition to these planters, we have a wildlife area, sensory garden and 4 ponds in the works, we even have a moveable apple tree that sits in a giant 1000l container and over a tonne of soil.
If you live locally and are interested in getting involved with our community allotment, please get in touch.