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Additional activities start week commencing 23^rd July unless stated

*We believe this to be correct at time of printing but some details may vary so please contact the provider in advance.

Monday

What	Where	When	For who	Provider
Active2go Sports	The Firs	10-12.30pm	Ages 8-14	Education Futures Trust
Street Play Cricket, tennis and graffiti art (from 6th Aug)	Harkness Drive	4-5.30pm	All – drop-in and sign-in	Active Hastings Play Hastings
Hang out	Hollington Youth Centre	4-6pm	children with disabilities (physical or learning) aged 8-13	Rhythmix

 

Tuesday

What	Where	When	For who	Provider
Game development	Pitman Centre at the college	10-12.30pm	Ages 10-16	Education Futures Trust
Street Play Cricket, tennis and team building games (from 7th Aug)	Watermill Drive Waterside Close	4.30-6pm	Open to All – drop-in and sign-in	Active Hastings Play Hastings
Nature activities	Mallydams	9-3.30pm	Sign up required	RSPCA
Street bites Yoga/beauty therapy (from 7th Aug)	Broomgrove CC	11.30-3pm	11-16 Parental consent needed	Play Hastings
Family intensive support service	Hollington Youth Centre	10-12pm	young people with learning disabilities aged up to 18	Rhythmix
Football	The Firs	12-2pm	Open to all	Albion in the Community

 

Wednesday

What	Where	When	For who	Provider
Go Wild	Churchwood	10-3pm	Ages 8-14	Education Futures Trust
Street bites Yoga or Beauty Therapy (from 8th Aug)	Hollington Youth Centre	11.30-3.0pm	11-16yrs Parental consent needed	Active Hastings Play Hastings
Media Slam workshops (starts 1st Aug)	Rock House Cambridge Rd	10-4pm	11-18yrs Sign up required	MSL
Nature Activities	Mallydams	9-3.30pm	Sign up required	RSCPA
Be creative Arts Activities	Robsack Centre	2-4pm	8-11yrs Sign up- see below	Culture Shift
Cooking for Kids Multisports	Y-Centre	10-12.30pm 1 – 3pm	Open to all but book to cook!	YMCA YMCA

 

Thursday

What	Where	When	For who	Provider
Make Food	Broomgrove CC	10-3pm	Ages 7-11	Oasis
Bring your own Hoverboard	Y-Centre	11 – 12.30pm	Open to all	YMCA
Skating	Y-Centre	1-4pm	Open to all	YMCA
Be creative Arts activities	Hastings Museum	11-1.30	13-16yrs sign up –see below	Culture Shift
Nik Naks	Hollington Youth Centre	6.30-8.30pm	young people with disabilities aged up to 25	Rhythmix
Make waves music making and song writing sessions	The Source Park	3-5pm	11-19yrs Drop in	Rhythmix
Make waves music making and song writing sessions	The Source Park	6-8pm	11-19yrs Drop in	Rhythmix
Football	The Firs	12-2pm	Open to all	Albion in the Community
Media Slam workshops (starts 9th Aug)	Rock House Cambridge Rd	10-4pm	11-18yrs Sign up required	MSL

                                                             

Friday

What	Where	When	For who	Provider
Silent Skate	Y-Centre	1-3pm	ASD& Anxious children all ages	YMCA
Cricket, tennis inflatables Graffiti workshop Teambuilding (from 3rd Aug)	Farley Bank Muga Rock Lane play space Downs farm	10.30-12pm 1-2.30pm   3-4.30pm	Open to all – All – drop-in and sign-in	Active Hastings Play Hastings
Make Waves music making and song writing sessions	Hollington Youth Centre	5-7pm	Open to all	Rhythmix
Be Creative Arts activities	East Hastings Children’s Centre	10.30-12.30	8-11yrs sign up – see below	Culture Shift
Creative Mystery Tour – creative industries (starts 3rd Aug)	Rock House studios	See website	14-18 sign up required	MSL

 

 

Saturday

What	Where	When	For who	Provider
Ri Masterclasses	Hastings Library	10-12.30	14-18yrs Sign up required	MSL

                                                             

For all activities see the providers website and sign up where necessary

Active Hastings & Play Hastings

01424 451051 activehastings@hastings.gov.uk or lbeerling@hastings.gov.uk

Albion in the Community

01273 878260 or email: info@albioninthecommunity.org.uk

Culture Shift (contact to check details and sign up as required)

07796306995 www.cultureshift.org.uk

Education Futures Trust (EFT) (limited places on all activities- please contact and sign up before arrival)

01424 722241 or office@educationfuturestrust.org

MSL(limited places on all activities- please contact before arrival)

http://www.mslprojects.co.uk/hastings-creative-summer/

sign up: https://goo.gl/forms/czu2oLlTXgxcn6bo2

Oasis/Make Food (limited places on all activities- please contact before arrival)

01424 427582 07927905029 https:// www.orevalley.co.uk/   www.make-food.org

Rhythmix

08701417484(Ex1) www.rhythmixmusic.org.uk

RSPCA (priority places for y6 transition children)

0300 123 0750 https://www.rspca.org.uk/local/mallydams-wood/aboutus/education

YMCA (booking essential for cooking)

01424 429677 http://www.ycentrehastings.org.uk/

 

Hastings Opportunity Area – funds summer holiday activities for disadvantaged young people living in Hastings. 

Hastings Opportunity Area has today announced funding of £60,000 for local organisations to deliver activities for children and young people living in Hastings and St Leonards over the summer holiday period.

The activities will be delivered in a range of locations across Hastings and St Leonards and will be focused on enabling children and young people, who might not otherwise access high quality holiday provision to take part in sporting, creative, music and outdoors activities.

The activities include:

• Football;
• Creative Art based summer holiday activities;
• Multi-sports and other team based activities across Hastings;
• Coding and digital activities;
• Music sessions;
• Skating;
• Outdoor activities; and
• Exploring different cultures through food, music and culture.

Activities will be delivered on different days and in a range of locations, over the Summer Holiday Period.

Children and Families Minister Nadhim Zahawi said:

“Our Opportunity Area programme is about helping young people learn the skills and knowledge, as well as the confidence to succeed in whatever path they choose to follow.

“Education is one part of that but it is also about giving them the wider experiences that will help to shape their character. This investment in Hastings will allow young people disadvantaged backgrounds enjoy activities like sport, coding, music and outdoor activities during the summer holidays.”

Richard Meddings, chair of the HOA said of the schemes.

‘ We are really excited to be able to fund the provision of schemes during the holiday period for children and young people living in Hastings and St Leonards. We are committed to improving the life chances and opportunities for all children and young people living in the town, and particularly for those children and young people living in some of Hasting’s most deprived areas.’

HOA has made funding of £60,000 to enable these 9 organisations to deliver holiday enrichment activities for children and young people living in Hastings and St Leonards.  Each organisation will be setting out its offer for children and young people and publicising this, so as to ensure that children and young people can make the most of these opportunities that are available.

 

The activities will include:

• Creative art based summer holiday activities for children aged 8-11 at the Robsack Centre and East Hastings Children’s Centre and for young people aged 13-16 at the Hastings Museum;

• Multi-sports for children 8-14 (at the Firs, Elphinstone), Go Wild for children 8-14 (Church in the Wood) and Game development sessions for children 10-16 (in Sussex Coast college), delivered by the Education Futures Trust

• Free football sessions and coaching delivered between 12-2pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays for young people living on the Tressell, Baird and Braybrook wards in Hastings, delivered by Albion in the Community.

• Music sessions: Innovate sessions for young people with physical and learning disabilities at Hollington Youth Centre, Music in Mind sessions for young people with mental health needs at the Western and Warrior Rehersal Rooms and Make Waves at Hollington Youth Centre and Source Skate Park, delivered by Rhythmix;

• Creative workshop sessions, high quality coaching, beauty sessions and team building and inflatable team activities for children aged 8-14 in a range of locations; Hollington Youth Centre, Broomgrove Community Centre and outside spaces – Farley Bank, Harkness Drive, Waterside Close, Watermill Drive, Rock Lane and Dove Lane – delivered by Play Hastings and Active Hastings;

• Around the World in 80 ways – six, five hour sessions over the holidays for 7-11 year olds living in the Baird ward delivered at the Broomgrove Community Centre by Oasis Community Project.

• Surviving the Wild – A transition project for vulnerable pupils moving from year 6 to secondary school from a number of primary schools in Hastings and St Leonards, delivered by the RSPCA at Mallydams;

• Hastings Creative Summer for young people aged 11-18 includes a Media Slam 5 week foundation course covering VR, music tech, documentary photography, branding and textile design, business accelerator sessions and media studio visits, at Rock House and Hastings Library, delivered by MSL Projects and subject experts. And 4 Royal Institution science masterclasses at Hastings Library covering Internet of Things, Biomechanics and brainwaves, aeronautical engineering & robotics, and making digital music.

• Free Multi-sport, skating and cooking sessions for 2 days a week during the holidays for children and young people living in the Gensing and Central St Leonards areas at the YMCA.

 

 

Damian Hinds visited Sussex Coast College in Hastings to learn about the mental health support services available through the Opportunity Area programme.

Young people and parents are set to benefit from extended mental health services in Hastings, backed by a £600,000 annual investment from the government’s Opportunity Area programme.

The funding will develop the advice and support services available for young people in Hastings to improve their emotional wellbeing at home, school or further education, the Education Secretary Damian Hinds announced during a visit to Sussex Coast College in on 17 May to mark Mental Health Awareness Week.

Hastings is one of 12 Opportunity Areas identified as social mobility ‘coldspots’ which are receiving a share of £72million to raise aspirations and opportunities for the young people who live there.

Education Secretary Damian Hinds said:

Young people in Hastings have told us mental health is one of their big concerns, and we know that it can have a real impact on their lives – that’s why the Opportunity Area programme is spending over £600,000 a year to improve training for school staff, increase access to local services and strengthen family relationships to boost wellbeing at home.

During Mental Health Awareness Week, it’s important to hear first-hand from the people running these important projects in Hastings and from the young people who benefit. The more we can improve the support that is in place for them, the more likely it is that they will grow up feeling confident and positive about their future.

The mental health investment includes:

• £100,000 per year to expand Hastings’ award-winning i-Rock service to five days a week from three as of September 2018. i-Rock offers a drop-in service for young people aged 14 to 25-years-old providing them with advice on emotional and mental wellbeing, employment, education and housing;
• Around £250,000 per year to develop an emotional wellbeing service for schoolchildren aged nine to 14 that will offer training and expert clinical advice to clusters of schools, as well as supporting groups or individual children who are suffering from anxiety, depression, anger issues or those that are at risk of self-harm or eating disorders;
• More than £250,000 per year to expand support for parents and carers in Hastings, including ‘Triple P – Positive Parenting Programme’, which aims to encourage parents to seek support where they need it and offers practical strategies to help foster healthy family relationships, preventing problems developing at home; and
• Working with schools and colleges to identify the best approaches being used to supporting their students’ mental health and resilience, to share locally for the maximum benefit.