Education Partnerships Support the Community Kit Room
Aneurin Leisure Trust’s sports development initiative, the Community Kit Room, is continuing to develop partnerships with early years settings, primary schools, secondary schools, and specialist education settings across Blaenau Gwent.
Recently, additional donation bins have been delivered to new locations across Blaenau Gwent, reinforcing the Trust’s commitment to Blaenau Gwent’s New Deal which aims to improve people's health and well-being and reduce inequalities.
This development for the Community Kit Room has strengthened partnerships between education and nursery settings and helps support a consistent journey and progression from toddler years, through childhood and adolescence, and into adulthood, helping to build healthier and more active communities for the future.
The new donation bin locations include:
Buds to Blossoms Day Nurseries
Cwm Nursery
Ebbw Vale Nursery
Abertillery Learning Community
Tillery Street Primary Campus
Six Bells Primary Campus
Roseheyworth Primary Campus
Secondary Campus
Ebbw Vale Learning Community
Primary Campus
Additional Partner Settings
Pen Y Cwm Special School
St. Mary’s Roman Catholic School
Georgetown Primary School
The expansion follows the success of donation bins introduced last year at Willowtown Primary School and Bryn Bach Primary School. The positive response and continued support from pupils, families, staff, and local residents have highlighted the strength of the relationship between education settings, local communities, and the Community Kit Room initiative.
Hannah Winmill, Wellbeing Manager for Aneurin Leisure Trust, said: “Developing these partnerships across nursery, primary, secondary, and specialist education settings is incredibly important in helping us create long-term opportunities for children and young people to access sport and physical activity. The continued support from schools, nurseries, families, and local communities shows the real power of working together to make a positive difference across Blaenau Gwent.”
Sportswear and footwear donations remain central to the sustainability of the Community Kit Room initiative. Donations of unwanted or pre-loved sports kit help make sport and physical activity more accessible to individuals and families across the community through reusing and recycling.
The Community Kit Room would like to thank all partnering settings and everyone within the local community for their continued support of the initiative.
Anyone with unwanted sports kit, boots, trainers, or activewear is encouraged to donate and support the ongoing work of Making Sport Accessible for All.
