Positive Futures

Positive Futures is a social inclusion project that engages with socially marginalized young people between 10-19 years living within the top 10% most deprived wards in the Country. Ealing Positive Futures targets over 20 estates in the borough and Hounslow Positive Futures targets 11 Estates in Hounslow.

The project has been delivered since 2005 through a programme of multi-sport activities, youth groups, workshops, residentials and a recently successful volunteering project. Recent statistics have shown a 10% drop in anti-social behaviour on targeted estates during Positive Futures sessions.

Statistics:

·          Currently engaging  1960 young people (235 female)

·          Engaging 1802 young people on a regular basis

·          Engaging 39 volunteers

·          Working on 40 wards over 2 Boroughs

·          Providing 30 weekly sessions

·          Delivering 54 ½ hours of provision weekly (higher during holidays)

 

 

Futures has worked with a range of partners including Brentford Football Club, Hounslow Community in Partnership, the Hounslow Drug and Alcohol Action Team, Youth Offending service, Metropolitan Police, Safer Neighbourhoods teams, Hounslow Youth Services, Hounslow Extended Schools, Sport Unlimited, Schools Sport Development teams, Harlequins, the Rugby Football Union, V volunteering, ProActive, London Active Communities, Hounslow Community & Voluntary Sector,  Grasshoppers FC, Slough Community Leisure, Brentford Boating Arch, local residents associations.

 

Positive Futures - Ealing

The Brentford FC Community Sports Trust have teamed up with Active Ealing and Ealing’s Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT) to launch a new Positive Futures activity programme called Ealing Positive Futures.

The Ealing Positive Futures Programme will give young people the opportunity to take part in a variety of practical and enjoyable sporting activities including Football, Rugby, Table-Tennis, 'Boxercise' and Kayaking. Pathways will also be put in place to allow local young people to undertake coaching qualifications and become role models in their own communities. Other projects around the country have had some real success in demonstrating how sport can be used to combat social exclusion and make a real difference to the lives of local young people.

For further details please contact the Positive Futures Manager, Jen Emeny on 0845 262 9495 or jemeny@brentfordfccst.com

Positive Futures - Hounslow

The Positive Futures programme has expanded to include two Hounslow Estates; Brentford Towers & Haverfield (Brentford) and Ivybridge (Isleworth/Twickenham).

Hounslow Homes Floodlit Street Soccer and the Children’s Fund

BFC CST hosts a year round Hounslow Homes Floodlit Street Soccer programme, that was launched on 31st October 2005. Sessions take place on 22 Estates across the borough of Hounslow in partnership with CIP thanks to Hounslow Homes being successful in a Football Foundation bid to provide a 3 year activity programme. The sessions run in 4 week blocks and the project includes regular tournaments throughout the course of the year. Click here for the 2007/8 timetable and here for the October Half-Term timetable

The Children's Fund helps us to deliver free coaching to children all year round across Hounslow as a part of our estates programme.

Kickz

Kickz is a new session at Hanwell Youth Centre as part of a PAN London Football Project launched by the Prime Minister Tony Blair in April 2006.

Visit the Interactive Map for sessions in your area.

Urban Academy

BFC CST is the coaching provider for Richmond Housing Partnership's Urban Academy at five estates across the Richmond borough. The initiative is a lifestyle programme for youths, and currently consists of free football coaching sessions on a weekly basis at five locations; Butts Farm, Chertsey Court, Ham Close, Hampton and Hounslow Heath. Anyone aged 8-18 years living within the Richmond or Hounslow boroughs can take part in Urban Academy.