Sport 4 U - Youth and Community Project Wakefield

The project is one of 70 England-wide projects lucky enough to benefit from the £8.3 million funding granted from the Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces programme to national charity Crime Concern. The five year Community Spaces Challenge scheme focuses on re-engaging young people with their local communities and supporting struggling pupils by giving them an opportunity to get involved in making decisions about the needs of their local environment and a chance to pick up qualifications for the environment work that they undertake as well as giving them a sense of pride in their community.

For the first few years of the project the focus will be Eastmoor. Activities at Wakefield YIP for the CSC will build upon the success of the Bike Shed Project, which has engaged young people in rebuilding bikes that would otherwise have been discarded and introduced them to safe places to ride their ‘new’ bikes. One focus of the CSC project will look to encourage the positive use of cycle routes in the local communities served by the YIP, making them safer and more inviting and accessible for the whole community. Art workshops, health walks, sports and education trips will also form part of the activities that are open to all 8-17 year olds living in Eastmoor and any adults who want to volunteer and support the young people in their activities.