Therapists in Tracksuits
It was with great excitement, despite lifelong loyalties at Lightbulb to another Premier League club in North London, that we recently headed to Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium for the launch of Football Beyond Borders’ policy report THERAPISTS IN TRACKSUITS.
The launch was part of the Annual Showcase from FBB, an inspiring yearly get-together to celebrate the charity’s recent achievements and hear their future plans. The stadium was buzzing on arrival, prior to the big event’s kick off, as kids and coaches, supporters and practitioners, all came together in N17. FBB’s methods combine therapeutic practises with sporting strategies in order to help young people who have become disengaged from school life fulfil their potential. FBB helps more than 1,500 such kids in the classroom, on the pitch, and beyond.
The Lightbulb Trust is very proud to have supported the first major policy review from FBB, compiled by their Head of Policy, Joe Watfa.
With the spectacular floodlit arena ranged behind him, Joe explained to a packed audience of stakeholders – with the help of two equally impressive FBB kids and their coach – how he visited schools throughout the country asking young people various questions but one most specifically: if you could deliver a message to the Minister for Education explaining what young people need to thrive in school, what would that be?
The replies were varied and revealing, but also contained sufficiently strong patterns of response for clear findings to emerge. These have now been published in Joe’s final report. The finished article represents a clarion-call for more enlightened, upstream interventions that are young-person centred and holistic in approach. This is all in line with FBB’s ethos, which Lightbulb wholeheartedly endorses.
Joe has consulted far and wide, most notably with the young people his report champions. The resulting document charts not only his research’s key takeaways but also, moreover, offers joined-up policy recommendations that can – and, in our view, should – be implemented into educational frameworks on more widescale footings.
To read more, including the report itself, visit: https://www.footballbeyondborders.org/news/therapists-in-tracksuits
Therapists in Tracksuits
It was with great excitement, despite lifelong loyalties at Lightbulb to another Premier League club in North London, that we recently headed to Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium for the launch of Football Beyond Borders’ policy report THERAPISTS IN TRACKSUITS.
The launch was part of the Annual Showcase from FBB, an inspiring yearly get-together to celebrate the charity’s recent achievements and hear their future plans. The stadium was buzzing on arrival, prior to the big event’s kick off, as kids and coaches, supporters and practitioners, all came together in N17. FBB’s methods combine therapeutic practises with sporting strategies in order to help young people who have become disengaged from school life fulfil their potential. FBB helps more than 1,500 such kids in the classroom, on the pitch, and beyond.
The Lightbulb Trust is very proud to have supported the first major policy review from FBB, compiled by their Head of Policy, Joe Watfa.
With the spectacular floodlit arena ranged behind him, Joe explained to a packed audience of stakeholders – with the help of two equally impressive FBB kids and their coach – how he visited schools throughout the country asking young people various questions but one most specifically: if you could deliver a message to the Minister for Education explaining what young people need to thrive in school, what would that be?
The replies were varied and revealing, but also contained sufficiently strong patterns of response for clear findings to emerge. These have now been published in Joe’s final report. The finished article represents a clarion-call for more enlightened, upstream interventions that are young-person centred and holistic in approach. This is all in line with FBB’s ethos, which Lightbulb wholeheartedly endorses.
Joe has consulted far and wide, most notably with the young people his report champions. The resulting document charts not only his research’s key takeaways but also, moreover, offers joined-up policy recommendations that can – and, in our view, should – be implemented into educational frameworks on more widescale footings.
To read more, including the report itself, visit: https://www.footballbeyondborders.org/news/therapists-in-tracksuits
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