YO U R CO M M U N I T Y
The Community Team at Your Leisure
has been at the forefront of community sport, leisure and culture in Dover, Deal and Sandwich over the last 8 years. The team comprises of a group of individuals with a multi-disciplinary skillset, and an ethos of wanting to make a difference to the lives of the children, young people and adults that they work with. Robust partnerships have been at the heart of the team’s success, and the ability to create and deliver innovative solutions to meet the needs of those partners. Ranging from sport, to health,
to education and to culture, the Community Team have become integral to many success stories in the district. Notably, after the cessation of government funding to support provision of both Extended Services to schools, and the School Sports Partnerships, the Community Team proved central to the continuation of service provision to all 52 schools in the district. This was through
the continued delivery of support programmes in schools, and the maintenance of an independent partnership, Dover Extended Schools (DES), in order to further facilitate the service. A key project was Pass the Passion, Kent County Councils chosen project to lead the bid for the London 2012 Olympic Torch to arrive in the UK via Dover. A children and young people led project, and part of the wider Kent Torch Campaign, it culminated in an evening stop and event for the Torch Relay on 18 July 2012. This was probably Dover’s largest ever public event and certainly the Community Teams finest hour. With the advent of Your Leisure, Your Community aims to continue to ‘Pass the Passion’ to Thanet and bring similar successes to the wider East Kent Area.