Post by QPR Report on Dec 20, 2008 11:54:55 GMT
At the recent Fan/Club meeting, it was reported that one of the charitable/community acts the club is involved with, is in the "Coaching for Hope" in South Africa.
So below: More details re Coaching for Hope
Details re Coaching for Hope
www.coachingforhope.org/index.php
In The United Kingdome Working with football clubs
We have been working with football clubs in the UK from the very beginning. The Football in the Community schemes at QPR, Hull City and Brighton and Hove Albion have contributed an incredible amount of time and effort into making Coaching for Hope what it is today, from coach participation to writing a training manual. As our work has expanded to reach more people, we've built fantastic new partnerships with Tottenham Hotspur and Everton. Through their work with Coaching for Hope, these football clubs have a hugely positive impact on people's lives in West and Southern Africa.
We work with coaches from professional Football in the Community schemes who have great experience in delivering football education and social inclusion messages to young people in their own communities, and this is exactly what we aim to do in Africa.
Playing for Success
We are working with the successful education project Playing for Success which is based at Hull’s KC Stadium and Hull KR Stadium, Craven Park. Together we are working on education through interactive learning. Our focus is to add an international development module to the Playing for Success schedule, to reduce and remove negative attitudes to Africa. We have so far piloted this module with great success and plan to take this to other centres around the region and then extend it to other parts of the UK.
Fundraising news
A huge thank you to Costello Tigers, a local Sunday League Football Club, who held a football tournament in June 2008 and raised more than £1,600 for us! We hope to make this an annual event with more children being involved each year. As you read this, more people are raising money for our work in Africa by doing charity walks and jumping out of planes among other things! All of this support is very much appreciated and we’d love to talk to you about how you could help raise much needed funds for our work.
Rhys Jones memorial Trust
We have linked with the Rhys Jones memorial trust in an attempt to pass the message on to as many young people as possible - Join a team not a gang. With the funding from the Rhys Jones memorial trust we plan to work with young people in Cape Town to make them aware of the dangers of substance abuse.
South Africa
The story so far… We kicked off with a pilot course in Cape Town in December 2007, training 30 coaches and youth workers from Southern Africa to plan and deliver inspiring football coaching sessions and raise awareness of HIV. Coaches from QPR, the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, Hull City and the England Women's team coach Hope Powell facilitated the sessions. Participants travelled to the course from rural areas in the Eastern and Western Cape and even from Zambia. As a direct result, over 200 young people in South Africa and Zambia have benefited from a minimum of eight HIV awareness sessions in the first six months since the pilot course in December 2007.
In June 2008 we organised our second training course in Cape Town, this time for 30 local coaches from different parts of the city. The course, which was facilitated by coaches from Hull City and QPR, focused on using football to prevent substance abuse. Coaches were empowered to roll out 16 awareness raising sessions (8 on HIV and 8 on substance abuse) to young people as a result.
Coming up…
We're working closely with local coaches who have participated in our sessions, to give them access to further training and development and to monitor the roll out of the HIV and substance abuse programmes. We'll also be finding out what the young people who take part think about the sessions so that we can update and improve our curriculum. A new monthly forum will give coaches a space to meet up and share experiences and ideas and to work together on creative initiatives that will benefit the young people in their communities.
Our next Cape Town course will be held in December 2008. It will provide top-up training for coaches who are already using their new skills and will bring a new group of coaches onto the programme, meaning we can reach even more young people.
We're also working with organisations in Botswana and Lesotho to provide skills training. In August 2008, we worked with a local organisation called SEYDEL to provide a coach to facilitate a second one-week course in Botswana. The course provided top-up training for 30 local coaches in how to use football as an educational tool, covering topics such as planning, delivery, communication and self evaluation and how to integrate HIV awareness into football coaching sessions. In Lesotho, we're collaborating with local organisations working in sport and development to run a one-week pilot course focusing on disability in Maseru early in 2009.
www.coachingforhope.org
So below: More details re Coaching for Hope
Details re Coaching for Hope
www.coachingforhope.org/index.php
In The United Kingdome Working with football clubs
We have been working with football clubs in the UK from the very beginning. The Football in the Community schemes at QPR, Hull City and Brighton and Hove Albion have contributed an incredible amount of time and effort into making Coaching for Hope what it is today, from coach participation to writing a training manual. As our work has expanded to reach more people, we've built fantastic new partnerships with Tottenham Hotspur and Everton. Through their work with Coaching for Hope, these football clubs have a hugely positive impact on people's lives in West and Southern Africa.
We work with coaches from professional Football in the Community schemes who have great experience in delivering football education and social inclusion messages to young people in their own communities, and this is exactly what we aim to do in Africa.
Playing for Success
We are working with the successful education project Playing for Success which is based at Hull’s KC Stadium and Hull KR Stadium, Craven Park. Together we are working on education through interactive learning. Our focus is to add an international development module to the Playing for Success schedule, to reduce and remove negative attitudes to Africa. We have so far piloted this module with great success and plan to take this to other centres around the region and then extend it to other parts of the UK.
Fundraising news
A huge thank you to Costello Tigers, a local Sunday League Football Club, who held a football tournament in June 2008 and raised more than £1,600 for us! We hope to make this an annual event with more children being involved each year. As you read this, more people are raising money for our work in Africa by doing charity walks and jumping out of planes among other things! All of this support is very much appreciated and we’d love to talk to you about how you could help raise much needed funds for our work.
Rhys Jones memorial Trust
We have linked with the Rhys Jones memorial trust in an attempt to pass the message on to as many young people as possible - Join a team not a gang. With the funding from the Rhys Jones memorial trust we plan to work with young people in Cape Town to make them aware of the dangers of substance abuse.
South Africa
The story so far… We kicked off with a pilot course in Cape Town in December 2007, training 30 coaches and youth workers from Southern Africa to plan and deliver inspiring football coaching sessions and raise awareness of HIV. Coaches from QPR, the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, Hull City and the England Women's team coach Hope Powell facilitated the sessions. Participants travelled to the course from rural areas in the Eastern and Western Cape and even from Zambia. As a direct result, over 200 young people in South Africa and Zambia have benefited from a minimum of eight HIV awareness sessions in the first six months since the pilot course in December 2007.
In June 2008 we organised our second training course in Cape Town, this time for 30 local coaches from different parts of the city. The course, which was facilitated by coaches from Hull City and QPR, focused on using football to prevent substance abuse. Coaches were empowered to roll out 16 awareness raising sessions (8 on HIV and 8 on substance abuse) to young people as a result.
Coming up…
We're working closely with local coaches who have participated in our sessions, to give them access to further training and development and to monitor the roll out of the HIV and substance abuse programmes. We'll also be finding out what the young people who take part think about the sessions so that we can update and improve our curriculum. A new monthly forum will give coaches a space to meet up and share experiences and ideas and to work together on creative initiatives that will benefit the young people in their communities.
Our next Cape Town course will be held in December 2008. It will provide top-up training for coaches who are already using their new skills and will bring a new group of coaches onto the programme, meaning we can reach even more young people.
We're also working with organisations in Botswana and Lesotho to provide skills training. In August 2008, we worked with a local organisation called SEYDEL to provide a coach to facilitate a second one-week course in Botswana. The course provided top-up training for 30 local coaches in how to use football as an educational tool, covering topics such as planning, delivery, communication and self evaluation and how to integrate HIV awareness into football coaching sessions. In Lesotho, we're collaborating with local organisations working in sport and development to run a one-week pilot course focusing on disability in Maseru early in 2009.
www.coachingforhope.org
