Date: 15th October 2015
Event: Engaging Year 11 Leavers at Small Heath School Contact: Peter Ford, Head teacher We were approached by Peter Ford who is Head teacher at Small Heath School in Birmingham. Peter recognised the potential in bubble football as an engagement tool for pupils when seeing one of our videos on line. Small Heath School had a leavers week coming up in which they wanted to get a high attendance among the year 11 male leavers. Attendance was not compulsory, but very advantageous due to the various learning opportunity workshops they were putting on throughout the day around skills and training towards gaining employment after school. However helpful the week was due to be for the year 11's, the school realised sitting in a class room to learn about post education pathways as a non-compulsory option was not going to be an easy sell. This is when they realised that having us put on a bubble football session for the pupils as a free incentive to attend school would be a creative idea to increase attendance levels. The bubble sessions were used throughout the day and sandwiched in between the theory lessons around skills to be gained helping the school leavers. The result was great, as attendance was up on expected numbers, especially amongst boys who were the hardest gender to get in to the school. Our visit was a success based on attendances figures alone. We are hoping to be back at the school in the near future to help where we can.
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Date: 29th July 2015 + repeat booking 30th March 2016
Event: Police Local engagement day Contact Lindsay Sweetman Photos: See below! The Story: After putting on session at Welshpool Leisure centre for a stag party, the leisure centre put a video clip of this session on their Facebook page. The video had over 500 views in 2 hours (and loads of likes, obviously!) and one of those views was from PC Lindsay Sweetman. Lindsay got in touch as she could see the appeal to children and young adults which was just what she was looking for. She was planning to put on an event in Welshpool which would attract local children for a few hours of activities so that Lindsay and colleagues could interact and get on with the local children from 11-18. They were looking to be seen on a more down to earth level getting away from the children's usual view of them in uniform. This sounded like a really good idea in plan and turned out to be in practice. With the local leisure centre booked again, some food, drink, bubble football and play/interaction with the local children on the Easter holidays, the event proved a real success. Lindsay was pleased with the results as there was a good turn out and "The children loved the bubbles".Advertising the bubbles did a great job of attracting the young people to the event. The Police staff then did the job of chatting to the kids being careful not to knock too many over with the bubbles! This is the second time we have helped Lindsay and the team with this event and hopefully it will grow again for next year. Photos below: Date: 1st August 2015
Event: Trefeglwys Village fair Contact: Jackie Maginnis Photos: See below! The story: Trefeglwys is a rural village in Powys, and every year at the start of August all the residents have a one great big reason to all meet up. The village fete! 800-900 people attend each year to sample the delights of a classic British village fair. Think cake competitions, any kind of vegetable you can think of competitions, great food, livestock, lots of games for the children, and even the local sheep sheering finals! Jackie's committee colleague Ffion was looking for something that would be a lot of fun and very visual, as they had a prime slot to fill right in the middle of the field, amongst all these other activities. After searching on Google, Ffion sent over and enquiry, and we were on the phone to find out more. After talking our activity through with the fair organisers, the plan was to have a number of pre-arranged adult matches between groups from around the village for the first half of the booking, with a free turn for all children planned for the second half of the booking. This, we all felt would be the best way of getting the most out of our time there, getting as many involved as we could, while also providing a good spectacle from the onlookers into "the ring!" I must say it was a lovely drive into Wales with some great views. We got there with plenty of time to spare, and after we had set up it gave us time to have a wonder round the classic village fair attractions. "They don't make 'em like that any more". Well they do! This one! Have a look at our pictures below to get a flavour of the day. Now I'm not going to pretend the weather was perfect. Far from it! Showers were on and off, but hey the show very much went on as the games went on, competitively fought and the youngsters absolutely loved it afterwards-we couldn't get away! All in all it was a great day, and it was amazing to bring this new activity to such a wonderfully traditional event. See you again next year! Date: 6th June 2015
Event: Junior Football team presentation day Contact: Liz Jervis Photos: See below! The Story: After putting on a private party for one of the boys who played for SAHA football club in Shrewsbury, the birthday boy and pals all loved it (of course!) and our details were passed to Liz who heads up SAHA football cub based in Shrewsbury. SAHA run 20 teams from Under 5's to Under 16's for both girls and boys, with over 350 young players on their books. Liz had us in mind for their end of season presentation day on the 6th of June. It was shaping up to be a great event. Picture it: -Tasty BBQ -Sunshine -The local village hall hired out with a good size piece of grass (for us to do our thing!) -350+ young players with their parents and family -Entertainment: Bubble Football! Each team had a time allocation slot from 13.30-16.45 to come along to their presentation and have their team photo inside, have their awards handed out and stay for some food, drinks and a good bit of socialising outside in the sunshine. Our inclusion was to look after all the young players when the parents and family were doing all their adults talking! What a great time they had too! We were able to look after all the age groups right through the 20 teams. There were 10 bubbles and we offered a 10 minute turn for each child to run around and have a ball. It was a fantastic day and we are currently working on a date for 2016 to make their presentation day a success this year too. - See our photos below. Click here to get in touch to see how we can help your event. |
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