Greenhouse employs full-time sport coaches to work directly in schools, Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) schools and through our community clubs, where they deliver sport and mentoring programmes before, during and after school, as well as at the weekends and during the holidays.
We partner with schools where over two-thirds of children are living below the poverty line, according to Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI). We work to see schools, where lack of equipment, transport and cost is not an issue, open before school hours, on evenings, weekends and over the holidays to provide key support for young people and the benefits of extra-curricular activities are wide-ranging: broadening access to education and helping families on low incomes with childcare.
Schools are an important place for fostering the healthy development of children – as they spend most of their time there. It is in school that we hope our young people develop into confident, healthy, active, confident and aspirational members of society.
The children we work with:
- Age 5 – 19
- 69% are living in the most severe levels of deprivation according to IDACI
- 77% are from communities who experience racism
- 10% have a recognised disability and are attending a SEND school. However, we expect this figure to be far higher given the prevalence of undiagnosed learning needs in mainstream schools
- A significant proportion have reported poor mental wellbeing
- Many are or have been at risk of exclusion from education altogether.
Greenhouse children improve their social, thinking, emotional and physical skills, attend an average of 5 more school days per year and achieve 30-40% higher grades in maths and English compared with their non-Greenhouse peers.