Grant to Birmingham Youth Sports Academy (BYSA) (360G-HeartofEnglandCF-A610000)

We cover all topics above let’s start with the first one: - developing life skills we put a lot of time into the kids as to mentoring them and bringing in professionals to deliver a work shop or programme to which the kids can benefit from with a certificate or qualification at the end of it in short and further more help and assistance on career advice, employment, work experience and apprenticeship. - building strong communities this is something we have done from day one since 2002 the project was formed to get anyone and everyone involved no matter age, size, race, gender and ability they are the BYSA caters for them all - we teach we are all one and one game one community to make sure the message is clear. - improving mental health this is also covered through our football programme after the years we have had mental health and physical health is on the high as kids have suffered in many ways but we want to try and go the extra mile in speaking to our kids and there parents to see where else we can help so it’s not all about football. - developing employability skills well we cater for the ages 6-18 and we do a lot of this when the kids get to the age of 14 plus that would like to no what to look forward too and we then help and advice and assist to give our kids a head start to which will get them into employment, work experience, apprenticeship, CV writing, interview skills. - reducing crime and anti social behaviour now this is something that we have made a major impact on we have over 500 kids that attend our project on a weekly basis that we keep on top of and make sure they keep out of trouble this is with the help of all our volunteers keeping a look out making sure our kids are doing good and also we ask the parents if they have any concerns then they address it to us which helps us to do more with our kids so they no there is a punishment if they are not behaving. We are like a role model to these kids and we make sure we can help within the area to better the next generation .