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Community
Based Project Ideas
- Plan a fundraising event for a community - based concern
Identify community
- based services in your area and work with them to provide
funds for something they might need. If the opportunity
exists ensure that the fundraising activities have a health
focus.
- Work with local community groups to provide a special
event
Some
schools invite members of the community in for special events
or celebrations.
- Work with the community on a shared concern or issue
Explore
your local area for sites that are run down or that would
benefit from some community involvement. Work with the local
council to improve the site and enlist the help of volunteers.
Find
out what is of concern in your local area - or choose a
topic and ask people what they think. It may be traffic
during the school run or the lack of lockers in which to
store cycle helmets.
Many
of the projects undertaken through the Healthy Schools Scheme
have enabled significant health gains to be made throughout
the whole school community.
While
the PSHCE audit will identify those health topics that need
to be addressed as a priority, the school must be aware
of the need to set targets that will actively engage people
and create the conditions for behavioural and attitudinal
change.
The
school will need to gather evidence that work completed
through the Scheme has enabled young people to take responsibility
for their own health or has been useful in creating a climate
of change.
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