Provided key partners with knowledge and insight on where support is needed.
City of Hull
Local Works Ltd are an alternative education provider and a not for profit company/social enterprise. They uses the medium of sport to engage with and support the most vulnerable young people in the Marfleet area of the City of Hull. The company provides daytime provision for 11-16 year olds and evening provision for 11-18 year olds.
The company utilises sport activity as a means of encouraging young people to embark on a programme of activities that will address their specific problems of social isolation, dysfunctional behaviour and disengagement from society.
As lockdown started Local Works established telephone support to these young people to keep engaging with them and providing the support they would usually provide face to face. The organisation approached Active Humber for support to offer online physical activity sessions they could offer the young people. It seemed a good opportunity to look into the impact of COVID on these young people’s physical activity habits as Local Works were offering a range of support to these young people.
It was important for Local Works to continue to support these young people and being able to provide them with an online physical activity offer during the first lockdown alongside the telephone support enhanced the support they could provide. It was also important to understand how the pandemic was affecting these young people and the potential impact on their physical activity levels compared to pre-lockdown.
The funding supported online and face to face physical activity sessions, which included fitness, boxing and football. In addition Active Humber commissioned the undertaking of a report to be carried out by Local Works Ltd alongside their telephone support with the young people.
Understanding the struggles/opportunities these young people had during lockdown hopefully provides Local Works and wider partners with knowledge and insight on where support is needed and also how people are being active, the type of activities being undertaken, their barriers to being active etc which then allows further support to be identified and developed.
