Kids + Family Classes Update
We want to start by saying thank you for your patience over the last couple of months. Every day we are getting calls and emails asking about the kids classes and when they are restarting.
We have been in the middle of a large funding application for the kids and family project with the strict stipulation that the classes were not already in progress. The results were due to be announced on August 1st but were heavily delayed.
It is with great disappointment that we have been told we will not be getting the three years of funding to support the project as we aren’t “creating transformative and sustainable change and did not meet a gap in children’s services.” We refute this as our commitment to the entire family starts with free pregnancy classes, free post-natal classes, and free kids and family classes and we had hoped, with the support of the grant, to increase our offering to take the pressure off classes that are usually full and waitlisted.
Sustainability in a project that is free of charge is, of course, a challenge. Heart Space has funded this project from the proceeds of other classes, but to expand and continue, we needed that support for the next three years. Post-pandemic, there is just less to go around for everybody. This is why the provision of free services supported by local authority grants is so important.
As for transformative change, how do you quantify the experience of children, expectant mothers, and new mothers without speaking to them? Our project would also have included afternoon work with a local school with children identified as at risk, who asked for our help in partnership. They too, weren’t spoken to by the awarding body yet still no gap or need was identified.
We will stand by our commitment to the children and families of Dundee.
Our kid’s classes shall resume the week commencing 23rd October.
Kids Yoga Tuesday 4.15pm
Kids Aerial Yoga Wednesday 4.15pm
Kids Aerial Silks Friday 4.15pm
Family Yoga (running currently) Saturday 11.30am
As a registered charity, we rely on grant funding and donations to offer the free services, projects and concessions that we run. To support our work, please donate to our Justgiving page below.