Category

• Fully Validated Effective Local Practice

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Poverty impact

• Mitigation

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Poverty driver

• Provide benefit in-kind (experience)
• Increase employment income

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Keywords

• Empowering
• Inclusive
• Friendly
• Healthy
• Community

Aim

● To increase accessibility to climbing.
● To foster the inclusion of all children and young people in Ayrshire disadvantaged by poverty and/or disability.
● To motivate, inspire, and empower young people to take control and develop self-confidence.

Summary

The outreach programme, which provides access to climbing, is run by “Above Adventure”, a non-profit charity based within their purpose-built community centre and climbing gym in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. The goal of the charity is to improve accessibility to climbing; the outreach programme is core to that purpose, offering access to those disadvantaged by poverty, addiction, disability or otherwise. The outreach project offers tailored experiences to each group and works with anyone from schools to addiction recovery groups.

What difference does it make?

• Above Adventure provided employment for an individual with lived experience of homelessness, lifting them out of unemployment.
• They help numerous children access the sport and continually seek to engage individuals in the community, which has the potential to aid in the formulation of new friendships.

Key take-aways

• Securing funding is hard.
• Be specific around the aims of the programme and quantify what you intend to do, e.g serve 20 outreach sessions a quarter.

 

Organisations

Above Adventure.

Location

Based in Kilmarnock (but active across Ayrshire).

Contact