Nuneaton and Bedworth kids get summer play schemes back

For the first time in two years, children in Nuneaton and Bedworth will have somewhere to go over the summer holidays.



The council’s announced it’s launching a new Breakaway club which can take in 300 kids a day, aged 5 to 13.

It’ll be based at two sites, Nuneaton Town Football club and the Bedworth Civic Hall, and will run through August.

At £30,000, the project will cost the Borough Council less than the play schemes did, and Portfolio Holder for the Environment, Bill Sheppard, says it’s important at a time of big cutbacks:

“We’ve seen around the country and around the region a reduction in provision for young people and we believe that in the summertime there is more of a need for a provision like this.

Steve Farmer, who’s organising things for Nuneaton Town, is hoping by getting children in the gym and allotments there it will keep them out of trouble:

“We’re hoping that we’ve got them at that age that they are impressionable. ’Change their lives’ is a bit strong, but we can potentially signpost them to areas and opportunities where hopefully they’ll never look back.”

There will be a small charge for the sessions and more information’s due out in the next few weeks.