Friday Night Splash

Community Action Through Sport promotes, recognises and rewards young people for positive community action with sports-based awards. To ensure that young people have the opportunity to volunteer and take part in community action, CATS creates sports diversionary projects and works specifically with young people to create and deliver community projects.

Friday Night Splash (FNS) is a project created by young people who saw a need to ensure physical activity was available on Friday nights in Bude to draw young people away from nuisance behaviour.

The young people heading up this project have had to do research surveys and present findings and build a case to influence high-level decision makers in Cornwall Council to persuade them to provide the local leisure centre for use by the project as at discounted rate.

It means that participants in FNS have access to swimming and break dance at a price they can afford. This is getting young people off the streets of Bude on a Friday night, and encouraging them into sport and physical activity. The project is also running a pool lifeguard qualification for young people. Those gaining the qualification then volunteer their time to help supervise the sessions, helping to ensure sustainability for the project.

The Olympic and Paralympic Games is about being the best you can be. FNS encourages young people to be the best that they can be, by grasping new opportunities to take part; taking responsibility for the success of the scheme and sharing the project with young people who will truly benefit by taking part in physical activity.

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