On your marks. Ready. Set. Go!

This summer saw the return of ReachOut’s summer projects. On the summer project we work with our partner schools to ease the transition between primary and secondary school for year 6’s going into year 7. On each project we run sports days, which are a fantastic opportunity for our mentees to practise using ReachOut’s core character values as well as a brilliant chance for our corporate partners to come and get involved!

In Manchester, we ran sports days at both MCMA and Our Lady’s summer projects working with a total of 96 young people aged 10 to 11. Our friends at PWC  and RBS dusted off their sports gear and popped down to Our Lady’s and MCMA to help lead a team of young people to victory.

Sports day began with getting everyone into teams. The children were particularly excited to have our corporate partners with them. Like one of our mentees said, “they’re grownups so they must be good at sport!”. 

Each team then split off and took part in a variety of events including obstacle courses, Basketball netting, and relay races. For many of the events there were extra points available for cheering your team on and both RBS and PWC volunteers definitely helped encourage team spirit in their groups (a few of them were cheering louder than the children!).

Once all of the scores had been totted up there was a presentation where all of the children received a medal and the winning teams at each school received trophies. There were also huge rounds of applause for our RBS and PWC volunteers. They really made the day extra special for the mentees and the young people were very grateful for their support.

A massive thank you to Jon Mepham and all of his colleagues at RBS and Gareth Crabtree

and all of his colleagues at PWC for helping out, we couldn’t have done it with you!