Project Calderdale Play Development Service's Healthy Halifax Project
Funding £53,250 from Healthy Halifax, funded by the Healthy Towns initiative
Purpose To reduce childhood obesity and to encourage children and young people to become more active
Background Child obesity was a real problem in the Park ward of Halifax. "We were seeing sixand seven-year-olds weighing seven or eight stone," explains play development worker Imran Younis.
Funding from the wider Healthy Halifax scheme was targeted at the ward and Calderdale Play Development Service used its share to develop a range of sports and play activities for five to 14-year-olds.
Action: Indoor and outdoor activities on offer at open play sessions include badminton, football, trampolining and games. The scheme also organises trips to activity centres and ski-ing lessons - something young people were really keen to try.
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