WIDENING ACCESS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

We work with Fulham Football Club Foundation and Wayfarers Flyerz to offer children and young people with disabilities the opportunity to play football and hockey on site weekly throughout the year to help achieve postive outcomes. The twice weekly football sessions focus on providing best in class experiences for participants with disabilities.

The goals of the programmes are not only to promote a love of sport and physical activity but also to improve the participants’ physical health and mental wellbeing and to reduce social isolation. Wayfarers Flyerz hockey programme has similar aims. The programme is supported by Emanuel staff and pupil volunteers.

We work closely with Park House School. Park House, part of the Beyond Autism Schools network, is an independent school for 4 to 11 year old children with autism. The school’s aims are to nurture confidence, independence and self-belief to enable every child to achieve the best possible outcomes. Lower Sixth pupils run weekly enrichment programmes on Friday afternoons at Park House. These include baking and decorating, games, painting and collage which are fun, hands-on and build confidence and social skills. We also provide weekly access, with a lifeguard, to our swimming pool which has proved a terrific success.

Emanuel School is doing great work in the community and providing valuable support to people in Battersea. I have been pleased to learn more about activities that it is organising such as to help refugee families feel welcome in Battersea, supporting students from disadvantaged backgrounds and holding sports clubs for disabled children.

Marsha de Cordova MP Member of Parliament for Battersea