Thank you to all who attended our Race Night at the Volunteer Arms last week.
We managed to raise £707 that will go towards our continued community development programmes.
Thanks to all who sponsored races, including fit2ride.cc, Chathas ‘Go local’, Robert Wade Cars, The Waterhouse family & Kemps Waste management Services and all those who bought horses.
We are please to announce that we are running 2 more 6 weeks blocks of the RL Cares programme, OFFLOAD.
The sessions are being delivered at Royal Sun Alliance and Calderdale College. We are pleased to be working in partnership with both these Calderdale workplaces, helping to improve and assist in making a more positive workplace.
The session cover the following 6 topics that assist attendees in their mental health awareness.
What is Mental Fitness
Stress & Coping
Positive Mindset
Emotion & Thinking Patterns
Resilience & Mindfulness
Positive Influences.
All sessions are tutored by former rugby league personalities who all have their own story to tell.
During the 2 year funding period, we will have delivered alongside RL Cares to over 100 participants.
If your workplace wold like to get involved in the Ofload programme, please elt in touch. More information is available via the link below.
We once again delivered our October half term Healthy Holidays provision last week at the Shay Stadium.
Our children who attended did activities such as football, rugby, tag rugby, basketball, netball, dodgeball, kurling, pétanque, boccia and skittles.
We also played bingo, had Lego workshop, build structures out of dried spaghetti and marshmallows, played giant connect 4, had a Halloween colouring competition and did pumpkin carving.
Each day the children had a hot meal, including Jacket Potatoes, Chicken Fajitas, Sausage and mash and chicken curry & rice. Over 40 meals were made available to take away for other members of the family to enjoy at home.
We had a visit for members of the Halifax Fire brigade with an engine. The firefighters spoke to our children about fire safety then held a Q&A session. The children were then showed around the fire engine until an emergency call came in the firefighters had to leave, hopefully nothing serious. Massive thanks to all involved at the Fire Station for this, if was enjoyed by all.
We welcomed 4 new volunteer staff to our provision and are always on the lookout for anyone who may want experience of working with children.
We are running our next Healthy Holiday session over the Christmas holidays with the dates as follows
Monday 23rd December
Tuesday 24th December
Monday 30th December
Tuesday 31st December
All sessions are 10am until 2pm. Booking details to follow on our social media platforms.
Once again we are holding our Half Term Healthy Holiday club at the Shay Stadium from Monday 28th to Thursday 31st October.
Thank you to Calderdale Council, Community Foundation for Calderdale & TESCO for the funding to enable us to deliver an important session that allows children on benefit related free school meals the opportunity to access the sports camp and get a healthy ward 2 course meal.
All booking details are on the poster attached.
We are holding a Charity Race Night at the Volunteer Arms on Saturday 26th November, 7pm start.
All funds that we raised will assist us in us continuing our community delivery for all residents of Calderdale.
Please come along and bring a friend with you for a fun night.
We will be holding a raffle on the night as well.
We have just completed our Summer 2024 Healthy Holiday provision
We had 511 children access our sessions over 4 weeks with served 734 meals with at least 50 take away meals for families to enjoy at home.
The activities we did during the Summer were
Football, Rugby, Tennis, Dodgeball, Tag rugby, table tennis, petanque, boccia, New age kurling, Basketball, 10 pin bowling, circus skills, balance skills, sledge hockey, netball, Wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, giant connect 4, lego, quizzes & bingo
We also had a 1st aid session using the Flat Stan booklet that each child received.
As part of the STEM sessions, we did a human body workshop with 2 of our staff who are studying sports science at University, we also did the sugar quiz with fizzy drinks and also the engineering section building structures with spaghetti and marshmallows and also the tallest standing Lego structure.
We spoke to children about healthy eating and the importance of eating your 5 a day with fruit available all days we delivered.
We also made homemade pizzas which the children took home to cook and eat.
We also delivered a treasure hunt where all 33 participants had to work as one large team to make sure each child found a piece of treasure.
Finally, we run an Olympic event one day with 6 teams all taking a country to represent. The events we did was sprints, relay, shot put, long jump and them football and basketball competitions. The top 3 teams received gold, silver and bronze medals.
We received the follow parents feedback which will help us possible secure further funding for 2025 and beyond.
Hi Chris, my son really enjoyed it and had such a wonderful time doing all the activities and meeting new friends, he said the staff were so helpful and friendly and helpful really enjoyed attending and would love to go again.
I thought the staff and the summer camp was wonderful such great fun and convenience for the children, they help facilitate last minute as we had an issue with previous booking, such a wonderful team would definitely recommend, thank you, regards Shelby and Ivan Dawson.
I just wanted to thank you it’s an amazing club. All three of my grandkids absolutely love it.
They all had a great time and It’s such a blessing for me to know not only are they having a great time but also enjoying a healthy lunch.
I don’t know if you are aware, but I am a pensioner raising all three of my grandkids on my own, so it’s not difficult to understand how much I appreciate your club.
Huge thank you and your staff.
Chloe and Erin really enjoyed their time at the camp, they came home with stories and smiles and was always happy to go to the weeks.
Even wanting one week to be changed back onto it.
They loved their time coming to you guys for the days. I’m thankful for these opportunities the girls have had.
My son Seth has been coming for a couple of years and loves each session.
It is very well organised with lots of varied activities and opportunities available for the children to take part in that they may not get chance to if the clubs like this weren’t available.
The food is always nutritional and great selection and again opportunity for the children to take part in make some of it such as pizza and fajitas teaching them valuable life skills along the way.
The staff are all very professional and have a great understanding and interaction with the kids getting involved and having fun
We will deffo continue to book Seth to attend the sessions available and look forward to the next ones
Hi,
I brought my little boy for the first time on Thursday. He was excited to come, but when we arrived, he was very wobbly and didn’t want to go inside. The man taking the register came outside to introduce himself and let George know it would be ok. He got down on his knees to be at eye level and offered to buddy George up with a similar aged child. He took George to a small table he introduced him to some children and explained what would happen in the morning.
I know how busy this time of day can be, and I really appreciated the extra effort. I felt confident that George would be cared for in a thoughtful way. At the end of the day, George had made some new friends and he’d eaten a healthy lunch that he wouldn’t usually try at home. He raved about the activities and unprompted told me how kind all the staff had been to him all day.
What a great opportunity to learn some new social and physical skills. This might not have been possible without the sensitive encouragement given. Thank you for the great day for my little boy!
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Last week we held another successful Healthy Holiday camp at the Shay Stadium.
We had 125 children attend over the 4 days with meals provided for all who attended. Our menu included jacket potatoes, chicken fajitas, cottage pie and chicken curry & rice. In total we served over 180 healthy meals. Thanks to The Difference Group again for providing the meals.
We offered all kinds of activities including football, tag rugby, dodgeball, table tennis, new age kurling, petanque, boccia, basketball, netball as well as various warm ups. We also have down time with lego, art and crafts and prize bingo.
Calderdale Council also for the first time offered us the opportunity for our children to play on the Shays hallowed turf. The kids loved the opportunity to take to the field with a rugby league goal kicking competition, penalty shootout and a football match.
We also linked with FC Halifax Town and their foundation to offer places to some of their children on the last day. Hopefully the start of a long partnership between both charities.
We would also like to thank Emma and the team at Asda Halifax for their donation of fruit and water for all our children to enjoy.
Our next sports camps are in the Summer holidays with details to be announced soon.
For more information, contact chris-michell@live.co.uk
We have just completed our latest HAF provision at the Shay Stadium thanks to the Community Foundation for Calderdale and Calderdale Council and the funding they allowed us to access.
The 4 days provision was attended by 130 children over the 4 days with over 160 hot meals served. massive thanks to the Difference Group who provided baked potatoes with various filling, chicken fajitas, chicken curry and rice and meatballs with pasta, all which went down well with our children who attended as well as our staff.
Activities we delivered included football, tag rugby, basketball, dodgeball, table tennis, kurling, boccia, petanque along with art and craft sessions, indoor games and an Easter egg hunt.
2 of our children also lost teeth, with one unfortunately swallowing it with his lunch (hope the tooth fairy was understanding).
Our next HAF provision is in the May half term holidays again at the Shay Stadium, details of which will be on our social media platforms and also the Calderdale Council HAF page.
We are pleased to announce a new cohort of Offload, funded by Rugby League Cares. The Offload programme is a Mental Health awareness programme of 6 weeks run by former professional rugby league players, who share their own experiences of mental health.
The sessions are FREE and are being held at OSCA Foundation, Forest Cottage, Ovenden starting on Wednesday 7th February starting at 7pm until 8pm.
Places are free and booking details are on the poster below.
Monday saw our latest heritage Lunch at the Halifax Bowling Club, Thrum Hall with over 50 in attendance.
This months main guest was former Fax hooker, Kyle Wood, who attended on his lunch hour, great commitment after accepting our invitation while he was still a Panthers player. kyle included information about his current testimonial year with the RFL, to which the lunch club donationed as a thank you to Kyle.
Pictured is Kyle getting his picture which as drawn by local amateur artist and fax fan Kevin Mitchell
Also interviewed was our usual interviewer, ian Buckley who spoke of his involvement over a number of years throughout rugby league and the CCCT.
Our next few guests are as follows.
February – Liam Finn, current panthers coach.
March – Wilf George
April – Jim Smith, former referee
May – Malcolm Agar
June – George Standidge
The lunch os always on the 2nd Monday of each month and places can be booked by emailing chris-mitchell@live.co.uk of via text message to 07947 827627
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