Bedford Blues
Reaching out through the power of sport
Blues Foundation are delighted to reveal that the fi rst six-week enrichment programme with Bedford College has been completed with all students developing core life skills through vocational education. Started in April, this enrichment programme – designed specifi cally by Blues Foundation to target personal development – has extended the charity’s reach with local educational institutions by using the power of sport and education to focus on physical and mental health and wellbeing. Delivered to the Bedford College Group as part of its Advance to
FE course, sessions have taken place at both the group’s Bedford and Kettering campuses, and at Goldington Road, the home of Bedford’s premier sporting club, Bedford Blues. The Advance to FE course provides opportunities for 16 to
19-year-olds to develop transferable skills to enable learning in further education, higher education or apprenticeships. Bedford College is the leading advocate for learning within the local community through creating strong and productive links with external partners, and Blues Foundation were proud to host this initiative using its own #SportForChange belief. Both organisations have the ambition to become a leading and
innovative provider of work-based and community-based learning, and while this has been the fi rst partnership, the success of the course highlights there is the potential for further growth to extend all available off erings.
During this six-week course, sessions were delivered through a
variety of classroom workshops and outside vocational activities, targeted to develop employability and leadership skills, as well as a key focus on wellbeing.
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At the end of the course, all students were asked to fi ll in a self-evaluation form. Blues Foundation is proud to report that
every single student scored their physical and mental wellbeing higher than at the start of the programme, citing development in areas such as communication, teamwork, leadership and employability. T e delivery structure of this six-week project
has been similar to Blues Foundation’s most recently launched activation, Tackle LIFE, which uses the values of rugby to promote discipline, resilience and teamwork. Keep checking the website and all social media
channels to hear about other initiatives; or sign up to the newsletter for regular updates.
You can fi nd Blues Foundation on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Alternatively, you can contact
info@bluesfoundation.org.uk with any specifi c questions you may have
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