Southport & Mersey Reporter - Mobile

Click on here to go to latest edition's main page.

  Search Edition Archive  

Visit our online shop...

   

Click on to go to our hub website.

Latest Edition   Archive   Shop   Email   Mersey Reporter
Please support our advertiser below...

.CLICK TO SEE OUR RECOMMENDED BUSINESSES
 

Weekly Edition - Publication date:- 2017-10-03

-en Southport & Mersey Reporter

Local News Report  - Mobile Page

 

Young people facing disadvantage in Merseyside to be mentored by World Class athletes

A transformational programme where young people facing disadvantage are mentored by world class athletes is returning to Merseyside. The unique 14 month programme Get on Track; delivered by national charity Dame Kelly Holmes Trust; is being delivered in Liverpool following its success across other parts of the UK at providing young people facing disadvantage with the attitudes and capabilities to make positive life choices.

The programme will be led by former GB Skateboarding champion Neil Danns, with support from local organisation Youth Fed. With the help of athlete mentors, local young people will learn to develop the high performing attitudes of confidence, resilience, determination, focus and motivation from the course.

In 2016, 68% of the 16 to 25 year olds, who took part in Get on Track across the UK entered employment, education or training within 8 months of starting the programme. Independent research shows that the Trust's transformational young people programmes have had a combined social value of ₤23 million since 2012 to the UK economy. Double Gold Olympian and President of Dame Kelly Holmes Trust, Dame Kelly Holmes said:- "We are delighted to be in Liverpool running our flagship programme Get on Track, which will help transform the lives of so many people facing disadvantage across the City.  It is independently established that world class athletes have a unique set of attitudes and capabilities which has led them to reach the pinnacle of elite level competition. We harness these and use them to transform the lives of young people who require our support and equip them with the skills needed to lead positive lives."

GB champion Skateboarder and Dame Kelly Holmes Trust athlete mentor, Neil Danns, has been a Dame Kelly Holmes Trust mentor since 2011 and has a worked on a range of programmes across the North West. Neil added:- "As an athlete mentor I enjoy being able to give back to other young people and helping to give them an alternative and more positive role models and goals to aspire to the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust works with young people from all walks of life who are facing some sort of disadvantage in their lives and the positive change in individuals from start to finish is exceptional to see."

Double Olympic gold medallist, Dame Kelly Holmes, set up her charity in 2008, which has now reached over 300,000 young people facing disadvantage across England, Scotland and Wales through its transformational and inspirational programmes.

Dame Kelly Holmes Trust has committed to support 1,400 young people facing disadvantage, in Merseyside, over the next 3 years, through its transformational mentoring programmes led by world class athletes.

Get on Track Merseyside kicks off, on Wednesday, 8 March 2017, in Merseyside, which made possible due to funding from Sport England.

 

News Report Page Quick Flick.

Click on here to go to the mobile menu page for this edition. News Report Page Quick Flick
 

Read this page.

Southport Reporter (R) Bourder


  


 

 

 RSS Our Weekly Headlines

 


(+44)  08443 244 195
Calls to this number may be recorded for security, broadcast, training and record keeping.
 

4a Post Office Ave, Southport, Merseyside, PR9 0US, UK

 

Click on to see our Twitter Feed.  Click on to see our Facebook Page.  Click on to follow our LinkedIn Profile. This website is licence to carry news from Vamphire.com and UK Press Photography. 

This is our media complains system...

We are regulated by IMPRESS, the independent monitor for the UK's press.

How to make a complaint
Complaints Policy
Complaints Procedure
Whistle Blowing Policy

 



Southport Reporter® is the
Registered Trade Mark of Patrick Trollope

...