The Kendleshire Kids Foundation News - 30th Dec - 1st April 2021
Hello and welcome...
Well, the Happy New Year was not quite what we all expected. It has certainly been a strange one! Following lockdown 3 we are looking forward to getting back to some sort of normality and are pleased to be sharing with you news and developments since our last newsletter in October to bring you up to date.
Firstly, a massive thank you to our trustees and delivery team for their brilliant work and support to keep us moving forward. We are all looking forward to getting our sessions, for our young people, underway from Monday 19th April (subject to the government roadmap continuing to move positively in the right direction and our own, venue specific, guidelines in place).
Our own fundraising events are into their planning stages and we are also receiving offers of additional fundraising from individual people which is very exciting. We are also continuing to seek a range of external funding opportunities with the support of our fantastic bid writer. In addition, we are keen to hear from any local businesses who would be interested in supporting our cause and we are currently looking into several sponsorship opportunities. All partners and supporters will be named on our website with direct links to their own business websites. Please let us know if you or anyone you know are able to help with this.
With further partnerships developing we are pleased to report that many more young people will be able to benefit from our support. These are becoming more widespread across a range of sectors.
As always, please don’t forget to check out our website and social media platforms for our latest updates. The last year has been incredibly difficult for everyone but we know that our young people have missed out on so much. Our programme will play its part in supporting them with their physical and mental health and educational and life opportunities, providing pathways to give them hope for the future.
We sincerely hope that the light at the end of the tunnel shines brighter, giving us all a positive
outlook for the rest of the
year.
Best wishes to you all. - CEO, Dawn Ward
JUNIOR CAPTAIN AT THE KENDLESHIRE GOLF CLUB
Shannon Jones is, once again, raising money for the Kendleshire Kids Foundation through a number of fundraising events at The Kendleshire Golf Club. Look out for details of the events as they happen!
UNIVERSITY OF BATH RESEARCH PROJECT
Dr Haydn Morgan has now received approval to undertake the research project for the Kendleshire Kids Foundation. The work will begin in April when Haydn will visit us to meet more of our team. We will keep you updated on developments!
FUNDRAISING
Matt Holway (one of the junior member’s dad at The Kendleshire Golf Club ) is raising money for the Kendleshire Kids Foundation. He has been growing his hair since the start of lockdown 1 and is aiming to shave it off around 21st June, as an event at the club (all being well with restrictions). Please see his link, below, to the Just Giving page he has set up. We will confirm the actual date, once we have it.
ALL ABOUT US
The Kendleshire Kids Foundation’s programme is about using golf for the development of young people, ‘Golf for Good’, who have experienced adversity and trauma and to support them in building resilience for the future and improve physical health. We are the first ‘trauma responsive’ #SportForGood and #GolfForGood charity in the world.
Empowering young people by building resilience, self- esteem, encouraging teamwork and teaching life skills are all important for their future outcomes.
We use The Kendleshire Golf Club’s facilities, with the support of our specialist PGA golf coaches and one to one mentoring support through our associated company, Youth8, whose specialist workers use a person-centred, trauma responsive approach, as trusted adults, understanding how important this is for positive future outcomes.
The young people are provided with mentoring, golf coaching, golf equipment, food and drink. They also have opportunities to take part in work experience and online learning to gain certificates towards various life skills and future employment and are rewarded in various ways for their commitment to the programme. This all comes free of charge for their referring organisations or families.
To be part of the programme, referrals are accepted from schools or other avenues and there is no time restriction for them to be part of this great cause.
Continual monitoring and assessment, using our own taylor made packages for both mentoring and golf, is carried out to demonstrate the impact of the programme and to share learning across our community.
All workers and volunteers hold the relevant enhanced DBS certificates and certificates for safeguarding, child protection and ACE Awareness training. Many have also undertaken various mental health training. Nearly all members of our team are highly experienced in working with children and young people and many are highly qualified in their respective fields.
Our ‘Trauma Responsive’ Pledge Commitment
What makes us “Trauma Responsive”?
Multiple, serious and/or toxic stress/trauma (deep trauma) often holds a consistent influence on the entire lifetime of those that experience it. Therefore, it goes without saying, deep traumas will often take a lifetime to learn to proactively cope with, and possibly heal from. Many people may never reach a stage of full or complete recovery, but can, with trauma sensitive environments, people and services, consistently, around them. People can learn to better cope and live a full life with it, but this will be best supported when working with a person, not on a person, and will be at their own pace. Whether we are working with young people who have experienced violence, abuse, neglect, (due to mental or physical disability), racial, social, emotional or health inequalities, there are clear methods in which we can offer a safe environment that enables growth – (unlike the 10,000 hours rule (or thinking), we know coping with or healing from deep traumas will be more like a 20,000 hours rule to reach the same overall success & life balance, as a person living with less/no trauma/inequalities etc.) However, to be trauma responsive, is to be ‘responsible with trauma,’ that people carry, and consistently aid the process of learning to positively cope with, or heal, from its impact.
1. All our staff and volunteers hold purposefully relevant lived, learnt and qualified experience of, and/or knowledge, of coping with ‘deep traumas’ and often their ongoing impact across the life-course. Our staff and volunteers all have access to an immediate ‘supportive peer network’ and access to further clinical support, should this be required, at any time. This is fully agreed, understood, and supported by the entire organisation’s senior leadership team, staff, volunteers, and the organisation’s beneficiaries.
2. Long-term provision – Once a member of our services, we ensure that for all our staff, volunteers and beneficiaries, our services, programmes and support are available across the life- course, for all registered under our care. When we refer our beneficiaries onto other services/ support, we will stay connected with them and continue to record progress, to ensure they know they have our support for life and always have a place to return should they ever need it again – therefore, we will never need to ask the same ‘repetitive trauma related questions’ and will actively avoid retraumatising the individual.
3. For the beneficiaries, we have purposely designed group sessions that are empowering, safe, supportive, and small. This is with a high level of ‘staff’ to beneficiary ratio, according to the individual beneficiaries’ requirements.
4. Every one of our beneficiaries, we work with, will have ongoing, sustainable access to a trauma responsive mentor, for one-to-one support, according to the needs of the beneficiary, outside of, and between the group-based sessions.
5. We always start and maintain a person-centred approach with each of our beneficiaries and, because of this, we are a ‘needs led’ organisation.
Here, at Kendleshire Kids Foundation, we all understand and agree, that if we do not maintain all 5 of the above statements – we can no longer say we are a trauma responsive service and will not advertise ourselves as such.
Our work so far...
Here are some of our young people enjoying their golf coaching sessions and their social time over a pre-lockdown lunch.
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Your donation allows us to help more children and young people and improve their life chances by: providing leisure time activities and support to develop their skills, capacities and capabilities for the future, ‘Golf for Good’.
Registered charity number: 1192680
Partners and funding providers
We are extremely grateful to our amazing partners and funding providers for their support.
Our partners include:
The Kendleshire Golf Club
The Kendleshire Golf Club Captains The Kendleshire Golf Club Members Golfinc
Youth8
University of Bath
Square @Impact
CVS South Gloucestershire
Ben Clark- Travel Coach
The National Lottery Community Fund South Gloucestershire Youth
Local schools
WESPORT
England Golf
Golf Foundation
SGS College (Filton)
Hartpury College/University
New partnership links
Kendleshire Kids Foundation are delighted to be working in partnership with the NHS and other healthcare providers for the ‘Framework of Integrated Care’ across South Gloucestershire, Bristol and North Somerset.
Our trauma responsive approach has provided us with this brilliant opportunity to work with a number of people in this highly experienced team to help more young people through non-clinical support. Of course, it goes without saying, that we owe so much to our brilliant NHS and their associated organisations, particularly the care sector, for the brilliant work they have done over the last year, and continue to do.
Kendleshire Kids Foundation are working with a possible partner, in Somerset, to offer a wide range of activities, work experience and life skills opportunities, initially as a whole day, but residential trips in the future.
Fundraising Regulator
Kendleshire Kids Foundation are now pleased to be registered with the Fundraising Regulator.
They are the ‘ independent, non-statutory body that regulates fundraising across the charitable sector in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.’
Meet Our Team:
Dawn Ward - CEO
Pat Murphy – Chair of Trustees
Justin Coleman – Trustee - Finance Officer
Brenda Oxford – Trustee - Secretary
Gary Ward – Trustee
Matt Gerrard – Trustee – Social Media Co-ordinator
Remiese Williams – Youth Trustee
Emma Brown – PGA Lead Golf Coach
Tom Gillespie – PGA Golf Coach
Ben Littleton – Youth Engagement Lead/Director of Youth8
Harry Gethin – Youth Engagement Assistant
Paul Searle – Assistant Golf Coach
Sam Searle-Richards – Assistant Golf Coach
Georgina Bidder – Website Co-ordinator
Mia Blazey – Youth Engagement Assistant (University of Bath Placement Student)
Contact us:
Phone: 07397 160603
Email: info@kendleshirekidsfoundation.org
Address: The Kendleshire Golf Club, Henfield Road, Coalpit Heath, South Gloucestershire, BS362UY
Website: https://kendleshirekidsfoundation.org
Or follow us on our social media:
Facebook: @KendleshireKidsFoundation
Twitter: @KKidsFoundation
Instagram: @kendleshirekidsfoundation
