We are delighted to have been awarded £3000 from the West Area Committee to run a programme of events working with young people who may be struggling with mental health issues.
Read more →Keep Active have continued to support the local council Sportability event, which is now a regular programme delivered to children with a range of disabilities from primary and secondary schools across the city.
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Simon Gee, our recruitment manager here at Keep Active, is going to be running the Great North Run this year and has decided that he would like to support the Essence service with any relevant sponsorship money he receives.
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Keep Active were delighted to have had the opportunity to work with Sunderland Carers and their children and young people at a recent activity session at Castle View Academy.
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A group of children from Willowfields Primary School in Sunderland have made a flying start to 2017 after building their own Go Kart from materials donated from local businesses.
The sessions led by Keep Active’s Simon Gee, have been a huge success and we are hoping to replicate this in other local primary schools.
A big thank you must be given to the businesses who donated the materials.
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A Wearside primary school which was slated by Ofsted bosses is now celebrating success.
Education specialists had to be called in to the then Oxclose Village Primary School three years ago when it was placed in special measures by Ofsted bosses.
At the time they said urgent action needed to be taken to address child safety, teaching and pupil achievement.
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Data from the National Child Measurement Programme shows that more than one in five children start primary school overweight or obese.
Sugar-laden breakfasts mean that the nation’s children are consuming half of their daily sugar allowance before they even start school, health officials have warned.
The average English child eats the equivalent of three cubes of sugar (11g) every morning for breakfast, Public Health England (PHE) said.
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We would like to thank you all for making 2016 our best and most successful one yet.
In 2016, we saw a total of over 100,000 children at our sessions within schools, holiday camps and the local community.
We look forward to continuing our partnerships and increasing provision in 2017.
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Wellbeinginfo.org is a website that has been designed to keep your mind and body healthy and offers lots of information about how to take care of yourself. There’s lots of self-help tips and there’s also a directory of support services that are available should you or someone you know need them. It’s easy to use and there are pages dedicated to some of the issues that young people may face.
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We are delighted to have been successful with 4 new streams of funding within the month of November.
First of all we received 30K from the Big Potential which will support Keep Active to develop a Business Growth Plan, we will be supported throughout the project with colleagues from SES COOP.
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