WildTracks Charity of the Year
WildTracks established our Charity of the Year in 2011. Our first charity was the Ormiston Children and Families' Trust, an Ipswich charity supporting vulnerable young people in East Anglia. In our choice of charity we have elected to support a charity working in East Anglia and, if possible, dedicating most of their work towards the young. In making this choice WildTracks is recognising the resources at our disposal. We are a privately owned off road activity park able to offer local promotion and local fundraising.
We are very proud to support the Street Sports programme as our Charity of the Year 2012. Street Sports was chosen from three worthy finalists, the two other excellent finalists were: Niamh Henry’s Fairy Wish Fund and Headway-Cambridgeshire.
Established in 2010, Street Sports is a youth programme providing free coached sports sessions delivering mainly football and basketball in areas where there is a lack of affordable youth activity. Sessions are run at days and times and places that young people meet. These locations are decided in discussion with young people, local residents and local agencies that work with young people.
The Streets Sports programme is run by local leisure charity Anglia Community Leisure (ACL). ACL’s main purpose is the running of Forest Heath’s leisure centers, but ACL also run a number of community projects, the Street Sports project being the most high profile and successful.
Anglia Community Leisure run sessions seasonally, most sessions weekly run from March to November. Sessions run in Newmarket, Mildenhall Brandon and Red Lodge. The project was established in 2010 and since then the project has had over 5000 attendances, make the Street Sports project one of this areas most successful youth projects.
The Street Sports programme is run with the support of Forest Heath District Council, the local police, town and parish councils, West Suffolk Community Safety Partnership and Suffolk County Council. This project has had funding from a range of originations, including the Lottery, West Suffolk Community Safety Partnership, Suffolk Foundation and Sport England.
In choosing Street Sports, WildTracks fulfilled its criteria of a local, youth based charity where we felt we could make an impact on that charity’s profile and raise sufficient funds to be impactful on the charity’s work. Through 2012 WildTracks will be promoting the work of Street Sports and an event at our site later in the summer is planned as a fundraiser.
If you would like to apply to be WildTracks' Charity of the Year 2013 please email arabella@wildtracksltd.co.uk or telephone 01638 751 918 for information.
