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KEEN LONDON NORTH IS NOW LIVE

KEEN LONDON NORTH IS NOW LIVE

Remember remember the 5th November, the day our new service launched!

Thank you to everyone that has supported the opening of our new third site in North/West London. To the donors and funders, the new and existing volunteers and our brand new athletes who have brought enthusiasm and smiles while taking on a brand new activity with new faces!

We absolutely loved our first session, we loved meeting you all and after months of busy prepping behind the scenes we are so happy to finally be up and running. Our first session started small as we want to get to know our new athletes but judging by the happy faces, and positive feedback, word of mouth should very soon see this sports hall bursting at the seams.

KEEN London North is our third site and joins our East and South London services offering children with additional needs the opportunity to play, make friends and take part in sports and games with the one-to-one support of our volunteer […]

November 4th, 2022|Categories: latest news|Tags: London charity, one-to-one fun, sessions|

What is CAP?

Our Coach Apprenticeship Programme (CAP) first trialed in 2019 (before being cut short by covid). Three young people who were ready to take the next step from accessing our service as a beneficiary joined our programme to start supporting our service as a volunteer.

For many of the young people we support, KEEN London is such a huge part of their life that they want to continue being a part of it even when feeling like they have outgrown our sessions. And that is where CAP came from, a beneficiary led idea that addresses the need to remove the barriers to accessing employment or long term volunteering as a young person with additional needs.

Find out more…

January 17th, 2022|Categories: latest news|Tags: apprenticeship, CAP, coach, London charity, one-to-one fun|

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.

The […]