In The Community
Helping the Community. Changing Lives
Our community-based activities focus on improving mental & physical health, alleviating anxiety, isolation and confidence issues, increasing employment opportunities within the disability community, strengthening aspirations, and creating a sense of community bonding and cohesion. The majority of our community work focuses on the power of sport, exercise, education and mentoring to achieve these goals.
We run the following weekly sessions through the Foundation:
Parkinson's W/Football
Starting 6th October
We are in the process of setting up Parkinson's Walking Football programme on a Monday evening. Watch this space for more details
NR Half Term Camps
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Run across 7 weeks of the year, our Half Term Football Camps allow players from 5-14 to train in age appropriate groups. Supported by professional footballer Nathan Redmond
Hawkesley Project
Two sessions run on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These sessions aim to reduce anti-social behaviour and violent crime by providing young people with a safe space to take part in a sport they enjoy.
Schools
Delivering After School Clubs, we also work within primary schools, working with young people with SEND, anxiety, confidence, engagement and behavioural issues
Ability Counts
Our Thursday evening sessions are aimed at anyone with an impairment of any age wishing to learn new skills, improve on their fitness and also compete in the Birmingham Ability Counts League
Mentoring
Working with the players in our disability groups, we provide weekly 1-2-1 Multi-Sports mentoring sessions to provide additional support and guidance to our young and older players
Coach Education
This program looks to develop any individual with a disability or impairment and get them onto the coaching ladder and into employment, working in the local community
Mental Health
Our adult arm of the Ability Counts section. We use football and sport as a tool to focus on improving Mental Health, Fitness and Social Inclusion, with a chance of competing in the BACL
OUR MISSION
The objectives of Alvechurch Foundation are:
The promotion of community participation in healthy recreation in particular by the provision of facilities for the playing of football and other sports capable of promoting physical health and fitness.
The provision of recreational and leisure activities in the interests of social welfare for people who have need by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances, or for the public at large, with a view to improving the conditions of life of such persons.