SOFA for 12+
SOFA 10
Download the SOFA10 Flyer here
Download the SOFA 10 Booking Form here
Download the SOFA 10 Extended Week Details here
Please note the telephone number to contact Jo Bellotti at Somer Community Housing Trust should be (01225) 366145 and not the number quoted on the publicity flyer.
SOFA10 - this year’s programme is being run the same way as previous years with a group of young people meeting to make decisions, apply for funding, decide on the programme and the Basecamps BUT as the Lottery funding has now finished, it will be a mini programme for 2010. We were successful in our application to B&NES Aiming High for Disabled Children and have got further support from Somer Community Housing Trust but there are less places each day and the programme will only run for three weeks. Young people have met as the Participation group to plan the programme – if you would like to get involved, please contact Jo Cooper, SOFA Development Worker on 07792
There will be a small cost for each day but the evaluations from young people last year all stated that people would be happy to pay a nominal amount.
We are also in negotiation with secondary schools across B&NES so that we might have a Basecamp in each area – Bath, Norton Radstock and Keynsham. Transport will still be available from other areas to Basecamps as usual.
SOFA - Summer of Fun Activities was piloted in August 2006 with just over 100 young people who had previously used our playschemes enjoying a range of activities everyday for 3 weeks.We had changed the top age for playschemes from 16 to 12 years and felt that there should be something age appropriate and exciting in place for these older children. It was funded through the Local Network Fund and the BAPP Development Fund and provided evidence of need which was used for application to the BIG Lottery as part of the Government Play Initiative.
SOFA07, SOFA08 and SOFA09 have built on subsequent successes with young people organising and deciding on what the programme looks like as well as other relevant decisions.
It is fully inclusive with disabled and non-disabled young people engaging in a range of activities which they choose. There have been many times when young people have supported each other and the freindships that have been made across social groups has been diverse.
The SOFA08 programme included horse riding, kart racing, animation, music workshops, ice skating, Play Out Wild days, archery and sumo wrestling. Here are some pictures to show you what young people got up to in their summer of fun!
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