7th October 2021
Graham
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Watch our healthy holidays scheme, inspired by Rashford

ROKT Foundation healthy holidays film 2021 from ROKT Foundation on Vimeo.

During the summer ROKT Foundation supported Calderdale’s Healthy Holidays programme – see our film at the bottom of this page.

As part of the Marcus Rashford (who retweeted us about our work recently!) inspired programme we provided four weeks of activity where children learnt to boulder, rope climb, cave and abseil.

They had a great time escaping the Project Breakout escape rooms and mastering the giant puzzle boxes. Children learnt about food nutrition and how calories are needed for energy during physical activity.

The programme primarily supports children that are on free school meals. We hope to be running a condensed programme over Christmas.

If you are a school based in the Calderdale area and would like the opportunity for your children to be involved in the Christmas programme please get in touch. katie.kinsella@roktfoundation.co.uk

Here’s our film:

7th October 2021
Graham
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Supporting mental health

We are very aware that the last 18 months has been particularly challenging for children and young people.

The pandemic has had a significant impact on children’s mental health. Throughout the last three months we have been working with Invictus Wellbeing Foundation to deliver a series of confidence boosting courses, using climbing as the catalyst.

We have seen great results with 60 children engaging in our fun filled taster sessions over the holidays and 20 of them going on to our NICAS level 1 climbing course.

We now have 16 young people qualified in NICAS level 1 which is a fantastic achievement!

In the coming weeks we will be developing our mental health programme in Calderdale and Kirklees and we are keen to work with schools to do this.

We want to provide a series of bespoke taster sessions and development courses for children aged between 12 and 17 who have identified as struggling with their mental health.

The activity will be delivered within school term time and geared towards boosting confidence, helping young people to challenge themselves, rely on peer support and overcome obstacles.

If you would like to know more about the programme please get in touch with katie@roktfoundation.co.uk

Watch our film about this project here:

14th June 2021
Graham
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Watch how we support disabled children to reach for the sky

ROKT Foundation - Climbing For All session from ROKT Foundation on Vimeo.

Our mission is to ‘Engage, Empower and Inspire’ this has been particularly prevalent in supporting disabled children into climbing.

This film charts the journey through one of our Climbing for All sessions at ROKT.  In partnership with Calderdale Dis Sports, our specialist courses, equipment and trained staff build up the skills and confidence of our youngsters with learning and physical disabilities.

The course gives these incredible kids the chance to go higher than they ever thought possible.

If there’s a barrier, we’ll climb it!

Thanks to Boshier Hinton Foundation for funding to support specialist training by ROKKA project and Calderdale Disability Sports for this amazing partnership.