Due to coronavirus restrictions across the UK, this project is currently paused. The information below refers to project activities up until March 2020. Since March 2020, Virtual KEEN has provided as a replacement a busy, daily programme of interactive projects across all areas of social and recreational activity, and this is detailed in Fact file: Virtual KEEN. We look forward to bringing Allsorts back on the ground in 2021!

Project overview

Our Allsorts programme includes two Saturday afternoon physical activity and games sessions, for young people aged 4-12 and 13-25 years old respectively.

 

Yearly number of sessions: 21

Last year increase in average session attendance: 32%

Current disabled session buddies and leaders: 4

 

Average attendance

  • Number of participants
  • Number of participants

Participation

  • Participants without additional needs
  • Participants with additional needs
  • Participants without additional needs
  • Participants with additional needs

Contact hours created

  • Individual contact hours
  • Other contact hours
  • Individual contact hours
  • Other contact hours

Key outcomes (last 12 months)

These are the key positive differences (outcomes) achieved by the project.

  • 75% of families reported an improvement in 7 or more of the 10 key areas of their participant’s wellbeing that we monitor.

  • 80% of families reported an improvement in their participant’s general fitness and physical health.

  • 78% of participants reported an improvement in their participant’s movement, coordination, and balancing skills.

  • 80% of session buddies strongly agreed that they developed useful communication, planning, teamwork, or leadership skills at Allsorts sessions.

Stories

Communicated through a range of media including quotes, videos, and audio, these are the stories of KEEN's beneficiaries which show how this project makes a difference.

“I like playing rugby because I can run around really fast like sonic. I really enjoy playing rugby with the rugby club.”
— Thomas, KEEN Participant

Recent developments

This section includes information on recent changes which we have made to this project to improve it!

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We added sports coaching and development expertise to our staff and volunteer team, and built upon our placement and research partnership with Oxford Brookes University.

This led to improvements to session planning and structure, using a modern approach to physical literacy and inclusion, and more involvement from people with additional needs as buddies, session leaders, and in other leadership positions.

Future plans

This section includes information on our upcoming plans for this project. How we see it developing of the next 6-12 months and what actions we are taking to achieve this.

  • A greater proportion of participants from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

  • Further integration of learning from research partnership with Oxford Brookes University.

  • Support more people with additional needs into voluntary and leadership positions within Allsorts.

Learn more

Click here to go to our information on Allsorts aimed at participants.

If you are potential project supporter or funder who would like to learn more about Allsorts or any of our other projects, please do contact us here.