Media Release
Celebrating Short Breaks Together!
Everybody Sport and Recreation are delighted to announce they have been awarded the Short Breaks contract by Cheshire East Council, to deliver a range of disability and inclusion sport and activity sessions, under the programme name ‘Ability for All’, across Cheshire East.
Everybody Sport and Recreation is a registered Health and Wellbeing Charity based in Cheshire East, that improves people’s lives through physical activity and healthy recreation.
The Ability for All programme provides a range of activities for young people with an impairment or additional need to take part in. These activities offer young people the opportunity to take part, promote independence, improve their health and wellbeing and fulfil their potential.
Andy Molyneux Disability & Inclusion Lead at Everybody Sport and Recreation shares “We are delighted to announce we have been awarded this contract. Our Ability for All sessions are extremely popular and we cannot wait to deliver this contract from the 1st June 2021.
We have been commissioned to deliver the following Short Break activities: Inclusive Cycling, Activity Hub, Activ8 Sessions, School Holiday Sessions and Splash & Play.”
Inclusive Cycling sessions are for children who might find cycling on a two wheeled bike more challenging.
Everybody have a range of adapted bikes to support disabled children to learn basic cycling skills or just have some fun cycling. The bikes allow service users who can’t cycle independently the opportunity to be involved and take part in cycling with the support of Everybody Sport and Recreation staff.
Activity Hubs are a fortnightly multi-sport and play session, the Hub will offer a variety of activities including multi sports such as soft archery, new age curling, racket and ball sports, bowling, football, dodgeball, there will be arts/crafts and board games.
Activ8 sessions allow children to try out new activities and let off steam without fear of being judged. Children can play on the specialist soft play equipment and get creative with arts and crafts, supervised by Everybody’s friendly coaches and volunteers.
During the School Holidays Everybody will deliver a range of activities to keep young people engaged and rotate these activities at venues across the borough to enable families to access them. The holiday programme may include multi-sports such as soft archery, boccia, football etc. Inclusive cycling, indoor climbing and outdoor water based activities to name a few.
Splash & Play is a 6-week block of pool sessions to encourage children to be more relaxed, have fun whilst developing basic safety awareness and swimming capability. The sessions will be in small groups, with an appropriate ratio, conducive to aid learning and support the swimmers needs.
Find out more information about Everybody’s funded activities across Cheshire East on the website: www.everybody.org.uk/what-we-offer/disability-activities/ or contact the team via email: [email protected] or call 07506 317055.
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Notes to Editor
Everybody Sport & Recreation – Everybody Sport and Recreation is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. As a Health and Wellbeing Charity, Everybody Sport and Recreation aims to provide ‘leisure for life’ by changing lives through healthy recreation. The charity operates 16 leisure facilities across the Cheshire East region as well as a range of Health, Leisure Development and Outreach programmes and the new Everybody Academy, providing local training and career opportunities. For more information please visit: www.everybody.org.uk or follow on Twitter @ebleisure.
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