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Our Hackney half runners and volunteers smashed it!

Our Hackney half runners and volunteers smashed it!

They smashed it!

For the third year running (we don’t include 2020) a KEEN London team of staff, volunteers, families, and supporters took to the streets of Hackney to raise funds and awareness for our free and supported weekly sessions for children with additional needs. This is a huge achievement but this year our adult team had a tough act to follow as the KEEN London athletes set a high standard on the Saturday taking part in the one mile schools challenge. We were so proud of the five young people that took part in this huge event and gave it their all (our coaches and staff running with them struggled to keep up! Seeing our runners cross the finish line was very emotional for us all as many of these amazing people signed up way back in 2019 and have waited, trained and fundraised for two years to get to this point.

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October 5th, 2021|Categories: fundraising, latest fundraising|Tags: children with disabilities, Hackney Half, London charity, one-to-one fun|

Thank you to all our Bubble Buddies!

WOW, we have had sooooo much fun stomping in the mud, playing in the park, nature watching, nature walking, bubble blowing and so much more.

For a project that came out of a pandemic and a desperate need for us to bring back some real time face to face, one to one support we are pretty pleased. KEEN TV was great, it got us through the winters but our sincere thanks go to the volunteerism funders and great young people that came out with us.

In total we ran 65 Bubble Buddy sessions, massing up over 1,000 hours of one-to-one support over 140 trip hours. Over 500 one-to-one buddies (athlete and coach) got out into our fabulous great outdoors and with a little help from the odd mask, a lot of sanitizer and regular testing we showed Covid that KEEN London doesnt stop having fun.

Our thanks to the following funders for supporting this work either by funding […]

September 14th, 2021|Categories: Covid-19, latest news|Tags: Bubble Buddies, children with disabilities|

KEEN London joins the Disabled Children’s Partnership (DCP)

We are adding our small but mighty weight to the campaign to create a country where disabled children and young people have the right support and access to the same opportunities most of us take for granted. KEEN London is the 84th charity to join the coalition and we hope it will help us to ensure the voices of our families are heard higher up. For more information and to add your support visit https://disabledchildrenspartnership.org.uk