DARE SPORT

DARE (UK) are currently in the process of creating a set of sports packages aimed at engaging young people in diversionary activities throughout term and summer time.  The project has been designed to be delivered at summer schools, after school hours for the local community and during term time. The project aims to offer its courses at every school holiday period apart from the Christmas vacation.

The DARE Sport project has been designed with a multi-sport agenda in mind.  The aim of this approach is to encourage as many young people to take part on the courses as possible.  All of the sports courses vary in length upto a maximum of 10 weeks per single programme; this enables DARE to be able to tailor packages for individual schools, as well as children to ensure that we cover exactly what is needed in each particular area.

Outcomes and Benefits

Building upon the values, ideas and knowledge provided by the Primary Education Programme the cycling course is designed to go beyond the benefits of purely class based teaching.  As a summary we believe that the key outcomes and benefits are:

Ø      Extension and reinforcement of DARE anti drug, alcohol and violence message

Ø      Modularised course enables single use lessons or as part of 10 week course

Ø      Increase general fitness and motivation

Ø      Increase self esteem and confidence

Ø      Potential for UK wide partnerships

Ø      Local Community based programmes

Ø      Opportunity for marginalised children to achieve

Ø      Opportunity for rapid expansion and high profile partnerships

Ø      Adaptability of course to suit locations and attendees

Ø      Project can be expanded into more sports

Ø      Operates all year – engaging children outside of school

DARE is looking to build a series of local community based projects with a wider national objective that fits firmly within our mission statement as a drug prevention charity.  We believe that this project fits perfectly into our portfolio of programmes and will further our aims and objectives of ensuring every child we reach is capable of making well informed, educated decisions throughout their life.

It is very much the aim of DARE to expand upon its portfolio of courses with activities and events that further the aims of our charity.  We believe that promoting healthy living as part of a healthy body, healthy mind campaign will benefit local communities and provide children with the opportunity to engage in productive activities within and outside of the school environment.