Earlier this year we were awarded funding through Get Berkshire Active to deliver a TIF (Tackling Inequalities) funding project. We had 150 participants sign up to the programme, with ages ranging from 12-18 years olds, and every session had an average of 8 people in attendance, with the most popular sessions being the ones linking sports to resilience.
“It was an honour to walk with the Wellbeing Generation every week in recent months. I noticed that at the beginning of sessions people were apprehensive about getting involved, but as the weeks went on confidence grew and motivations improved. 80% of young people committed to continuing these sessions on their own, choosing the mindset and resilience sport sessions over other activities like paddle boarding and boxing!”
Kelly Leach from Waterside Youth Centre
“I just wanted to say a huge thank you for offering us the wellbeing sessions with The Generation. The students responded really well to her and found the sessions extremely useful.”
Newlands Girls School School lead Charlie Bevan
Our intention was to offer a programme addressing anxiety and supporting resilience delivered through sport, therefore improving young people’s levels of resilience and their abilities to deal with stressors and pressures in their day to day lives.
A unique factor about this project was that it used the medium of sport and physical activity to allow these young people to understand their natural responses to anxiety, and in turn to be better able to move in and out of their personal comfort zone with ease and flow.
Some feedback from some of the young people that attended the sessions is included below.
“For the past 4 weeks, some others and I have been attending a mental health yoga club. And I feel like these 1-hour sessions have had a great impact on all of us. I have received a lot of helpful information from this and I’m very pleased with the results. We have learned how to calm down when feeling anxious by just doing some simple and slow breathing, we also know many ways to physically make you feel better. For example, eating healthily, doing exercise, yoga and even getting plenty of sleep. We have also learnt how to feel physiologically and emotionally better like going out with our friends, seeing family, listening to music, getting some fresh air and especially talking to somebody about your worries!”
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