Children in Toothill can enjoy a range of exciting sports related activities over Easter in another project funded by the lottery backed Toothill Big Local.

Sports coach Phil Scarisbrick from Grange Park will host a week of sporting events at Toothill Primary School. Places are open to children living in Toothill who attend Toothill Primary or Oliver Tomkins schools in school years 1 to 6. The club will run Monday 2nd April – Thursday 5th April from 8.30am – 3.30pm. The course is free to children who qualify.  There will be an Easter Egg hunt too

The previous February half term sports club was a great success and oversubscribed. This time more places will be made available especially to those who could not attend last time. Toothill Parent, Jacky Parry said of the previous event. “My children were delighted by the February course, they came home happy & made new friends”

Phil, of SuperSportsStars, is an experienced sports coach who runs sports courses and after school clubs at Toothill Primary, Shaw Ridge Primary and Ferndale Primary Schools. He has qualifications in sports and exercise science, instructing and kids fitness. He is also a qualified Football Association and Rugby Football Union coach. He attended Greendown School and New College and competed at a high level for different sports. He has also been involved in community groups in West Swindon for many years

Phil said, “Children will try many different activities and be supervised by fully qualified sports coaches. It was great to see so many smiling faces on the last event, we got so much positive feedback from parents.”

Big Local representative Helen Garforth said, “This builds on the tremendous success of the previous event and the good work of the Toothill Big Local Steering Group. The group is far ahead of other areas in implementing interesting community projects and national organisers are extremely impressed”

Local Youth Worker and Toothill resident Jason Byfield added “It’s great to see Toothill Big Local funding a popular well run scheme for Toothill children run by Phil and his team. Phil has worked in conjunction with the school for several years and we are pleased the project has been once again funded.”

Information on participating has been sent out to parents in Toothill.

For further information about the week please contact:

Toothill Primary School on tel: 01793 497250, email: admin@toothill.swindon.sch.uk, or Phil Scarisbrick on tel: 07899 823 840, email: info@supersportstars.co.uk .

For more details of the Toothill Million project, go online to www.mytoothill.org.uk or www.facebook.com/toothillmillion

Notes to editors:

Toothill has been awarded £1 million to spend over 10 years by the Big Lottery Fund through their Big Local programme. The programme is being run by the Local Trust.

The Big Lottery Fund’s £200m Big Local programme was launched in July 2010. It will support up to 150 urban and rural neighbourhoods in England to help them make their areas even better places tolive. The targeted neighbourhoods are places where many people face multiple barriers to meeting their needs, and which have not had great success in gaining resources to help. Each neighbourhood will receive at least £1m and will have up to 10 years to allocate this money. The programme is administered by Local Trust.

The Big Lottery Fund, the largest of the National Lottery good cause distributors, has been rolling out grants to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK since its inception in June 2004. It was established by Parliament on 1 December 2006.

Full details of the work of the Big Lottery Fund, its programmes and awards are available on the website: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk