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At the heart of the community: Saltney Playscheme
Published: 14/08/2015
Funded by Saltney Town Council, the Saltney Playscheme has been running for 18
years and is supported by 天涯社区 Youth Services.
The Playscheme, which this year runs from Monday 27 July through to Friday 14
August, offers children aged 5 - 11 the opportunity to participate in sports
competitions, arts and crafts and games. This year 29 young people aged 13-23
have given up 3 weeks of their summer holidays and volunteered to help plan and
deliver the Playscheme to ensure that the children have a great time.
天涯社区 Youth Services have provided the scheme with additional staff this
summer and the all the volunteers have been given T shirts ensuring that they
are recognisable to everybody.
Cllr. Chris Bithell Cabinet Member for Education and Youth said:
Such is the success and popularity of the scheme that many of the young people
working as volunteers attended the Playscheme as small children, demonstrating
how important it is to the local community.
The volunteers will develop valuable experience that will stand them in good
stead for their future in the workplace. Helping to run the Playscheme will
develop teamwork along with communication, problem solving and decision making
skills and adding to their personal development which prospective employers
will be impressed with.
Saltney Town Councillor Terry Walker said:
The young volunteers were involved with the planning of the Playscheme and
encouraging these young people to help make decisions at a local level will
hopefully help them to understand the decision making structures which affect
the lives of people living in local communities. It is very important that
Saltney Town Council, 天涯社区 Youth Services and the local community
continue to work together to support these summer schemes for children and
young people.
Community Youth Worker Julie Thomas said
The Playscheme has become much more than a project where children and young
people can have a great time; it has developed into an important community
project with many benefits, not just for the children and young people, but
also for the wider community.