BTTC Refugee Integration Project

Action accessible to all including newly-arrived migrants

PROJECT OWNER

Name of the project owner: BTTC Refugee Integration Project

Status of the project owner:  Local Association

Area of work of the project owner: Sport / Social integration / Health / Citizenship / Intercultural Exchange
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PROJECT

United-Kingdom

Geographic scope of project: Local

Project objective: Promote social diversity / Educate and transmit values through sport / Practice a physical activity for physical and mental health / Develop intercultural relations and/or intercultural competency / promote access to volunteering in sport

Types of sport or physical activity carried out: Table tennis

Partnership / supports: Grant from Sport England, Partnership with Infinity Foods and Miloko music studio

Project duration: 1 year (start: 1.5.2017)

Project status: Underway

Supervising staff: Professionals and Volunteers

Summary of the project: The Brighton table tennis club uses table tennis as a tool for the integration of diverse marginalised groups. The client base includes children and young people in care aged 9 - 18 living in and around Brighton. This client group includes unaccompanied refugee minors, children from hard to reach ethnic minorities and from families living in deprived areas. Since May 2017, BTTC has  built a highly successful referral network for new refugee and asylum seeker players as part of a refugee specific project. Statutory and voluntary sector local organisations know that the club has a great reputation and can offer marginalised young people fantastic opportunities. It has delivered 1:1 sessions to 59 refugee and asylum seekers. So far 31 of these have completed 10 x 2 hour 1:1 sessions. 74 refugee and asylum seekers have attended group sessions. So far 35 of these have completed 10 x 2 hour 1:1 sessions. It has assisted 83 refugee and asylum seekers meet the CMO's guidelines of activity through Brighton Table Tennis Club activities. It has delivered 10 PingLish sessions at BTTC to 44 refugee and asylum seekers, as well as school assemblies with refugee coaches in 4 Schools of Sanctuary. 12 BTTC Refugee Unaccompanied Minors from Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Chad took part in a week-long residential summer school at the Cooke & Deaton Summer School in Grantham. 4 unaccompanied minors have completed TTE Level 1 coaching qualification and are each volunteering a minimum of 10 hours a week at the Club. Currently 8 refugees and asylum seekers are registered and playing weekly in the local league.

TARGET GROUP

Country of origin: Sudan, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Syria

Type of migration: Refugee, Asylum Seeker

Target beneficiary: Families / Teenager-Young people

Target age group: 11-20