Havelock Academy were successful in accessing funding through the Opening Schools Facilities Fund (OSF), which was made available by Active Humber.
As detailed below, this has had a positive impact on various areas, which has made the use of school facilities for the community more sustainable. The funding has enabled us to provided students and community users new opportunities to participate and better facilities to use.
Funding was utilised to by a brand new pool cover, fund pool chemicals and upgrade changing rooms by replacing condemned benches in the changing rooms.
The pool cover has a reduced energy bills for heating the pool and air conditioning. This has ensured the cost to maintain the pool has been reduced and is more sustainable for the Academy, to ensure community and school use is maintained.
Replacing condemned changing room benches means they can be used for changing for swimming lessons, club sessions and school sessions, ensuring a better experience for users.
The investment allowed us to clean, seal, and re-mark tennis and netball courts for students and community use. This is to replace old and poorly marked courts, with the surface becoming dangerous for users.
Higher quality facilities for increased community lettings and school enrichment use. Meets National Governing Body standards for netball and tennis. This has increased student attendance by over 50% at enrichment clubs due to quality of facilities provided.
The courts are floodlit and have been promoted to community users to increase lettings for netball and tennis.
Through the grant we were able to pay coaches to run weekly girls football and netball sessions at Havelock Academy in the evenings. Facility opening costs (site manager), along with relevant equipment was also covered.
Weekly football and netball sessions have taken place every week in term-time since October 2024. Football sessions have seen over 32 children attend over 576 times over this this period. They continue to run weekly now.
