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Participation in Action: Sports programme helps kick antisocial behaviour into touch

2 mins read Participation
Young people at risk of committing antisocial behaviour are getting their lives back on track by gaining qualifications and taking part in sports activities.

Provider Charnwood Community Safety Partnership and the Leicester Tigers Foundation

Name The Charnwood Dynamite Programme

Charnwood Community Safety Partnership - a collection of agencies that come together to tackle community safety issues in the borough of Charnwood - has teamed up with Leicester Tigers Foundation, the charitable arm of Leicester Tigers Rugby Club, to offer young people the chance to gain qualifications and life skills and learn different sports.

The community safety partnership approached the foundation earlier this year after receiving a grant from Leicestershire police and crime commissioner. This resulted in the creation of the Charnwood Dynamite Programme.

Sam Swift, inclusion manager at Leicester Tigers Foundation, explains that the programme is aimed at pupils in years 8 to 11 in the county's Charnwood borough who have displayed behaviour that indicates they are at risk of being antisocial.

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