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.
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:33 pm