Video: Opening School Facilities at Carlton Bolling Academy

Carlton Bolling are showing how they have opened up their school for activities for students and local community with Opening School Facilities (OSF) funding in this video.

The installation of a state-of-the-art all-weather pitch was a fantastic opportunity to let the facilities to local community clubs.  

Working with community staff roles and partner organisations there are new and sustainable school to club links. 

The school used part of the funding to develop part-time recreation assistant roles, who support and manage the bookings.  

The members of staff check-in in each club, ensure the facilities are maintained, and safeguarding processes adhered to. As more clubs and teams have accessed the facilities, the income generated has made the roles sustainable. 

The school also wanted to bring new activities to students, and through a staff-led initiative named 'Sporting Excellence', badminton, golf, archery and boxing were provided.  

There were weekly coaching sessions with seminars led by experts in their respective field. Archery has proven so popular that the school are now looking to create a self-sustained community archery club on the school site, and they have also used the funding to work alongside a badminton coach two hours a week.  

Due to the popularity of the sessions, the coach has set up a community junior badminton club at the school with students regularly attending. 

They are using the OSF funding from the Department of Education with support by the Children and Young people team at Yorkshire Sport Foundation

There are more videos and an Impact Report coming soon.  

Find out more about our work with children and young people here

To find out more about the Opening School Facilities funding please contact openingschoolfacilities@yorkshiresport.org