Success Through Sport
This project's parent organization is Manchester City Footbal Club
It operates in United Kingdom
It uses Football (Soccer)
Entered the Sport for Health Award
More about Success Through Sport
The programme uses the power of football as a vehicle to motivate unemployed local people towards positive steps to regaining/obtaining work and encouraging participants to adopt a healthier lifestyle. Manchester residents claiming job seekers allowance (JSA) is now at its highest level since the 2000-09 recession, 20,546 people in total claim JSA.
The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) report states that there is a link between employment and health, adverse effects associated with unemployment include: higher levels of smoking and alcohol consumption, more weight gain, reduced physical activity and exercise, higher use of illicit drugs and prescribed antidepressants and a reduced psychological wellbeing and greater mental ill health. Success through Sport is an eight-week programme and as football is the catalyst it will feature for at least one hour each session.
Two hour sessions consist of a football sessions with an employability or health workshop bi-weekly. At the end of the eight-week programme participants are given the opportunity to enrol onto a FA Level 1 Coaching course, this will give them an accredited qualification, emergency first aid and safeguarding certificates.