During the financial year, Elite Community Sports Coaching CIC continued to expand its impact as a locally rooted organisation delivering sport, mentoring, and well-being programmes for children, young people, and families in Airedale and across Wakefield. Based in The Hut, we focus on enhancing physical and mental health, boosting aspirations, and strengthening community cohesion through inclusive and accessible activities. Our programmes reached hundreds of young people, many from areas of entrenched poverty and high deprivation. Through a successful National Lottery Awards for All grant, we delivered structured youth engagement activities, providing mentoring, upskilling opportunities, and social support during evenings and weekends. Alongside this, our Sport England-funded work enabled the launch of family activity tracker sessions and targeted women’s well-being programmes. These offered accessible routes to regular exercise and social connection for those often excluded from mainstream provision. We also supported the Friends of The Hut in delivering two successful community grants, helping to provide safe spaces and positive experiences for local families. Our role was instrumental in outreach, co-design, and delivery, ensuring the impact reached the most vulnerable. Our partnership with Rugby League Cares allowed us to deliver mental health and employability sessions across the North of England, working with over 300 participants. In addition, we continued to work closely with Wakefield Council through the “Our Family, Our Future” programme and Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) provision, which supported more than 200 children and young people in Knottingley during school holidays. Our team, made up of skilled staff from the local community, is committed to delivering high-quality, trauma-informed activities that respond to the real and growing needs of those we serve. This year’s work has been transformational in strengthening family support networks, promoting physical activity, improving emotional resilience, and empowering young people to make positive life choices.

Elite Community Sports Coaching CIC has developed a strong network of stakeholders including local authority teams, primary and secondary schools, Wakefield Council, the Police, Children’s First Hub, Active Airedale, and members of the Airedale Neighbourhood Management Committee. These partnerships are key to ensuring that our work responds directly to community needs and evolves in line with emerging challenges. Over the past year, we have undertaken meaningful consultation with more than 120 participants, including young people, parents, teachers, and community workers. We use a range of mechanisms to gather feedback, including surveys, discussion groups, informal conversations during sessions, and co-design workshops. This feedback is used to shape both the design and delivery of our programmes and has directly influenced activity scheduling, content, and safeguarding procedures. We regularly attend Active Airedale and Airedale Neighbourhood Management Committee meetings, which bring together local organisations and residents to discuss local issues and review the effectiveness of community interventions. Through these forums, our work has received ongoing support and validation, and we have identified key priority areas such as mental health, food insecurity, and youth disengagement. Crucially, our developing partnerships with Rethink Food and the local Police, including the Airedale PCSO team, have grown out of these consultations. Rethink Food is now a strategic stakeholder in shaping food education components of our programme, and the Police have identified measurable reductions in antisocial behaviour when our provision is active. In response, we are now working together to co-design joint initiatives that provide wraparound support for vulnerable young people and their families, creating a trusted, visible network of consistent support. Our approach ensures the voices of those we serve remain central to our work, and that our programmes continue to be community-led, responsive, and accountable.

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