Park Sport goes virtual

Park Sport goes virtual

The Council’s yearly summer sports programme organised by the SportWorks team went ahead despite the pandemic, with over 1,500 local children and their families taking part.

To ensure the safety of those who took part, all activities took place outside and could be completed in small, socially distanced groups. The programme was largely free and the majority of tasks were timeflexible.

The Adventure Story element,

created by The Point Eastleigh, was held at our country parks, with an interactive story trail at Itchen Valley and a photo trail at Lakeside.

Discover Your Parks involved a geocaching hunt and a weekly photography competition. Virtual Challenges featured weekly videos

created by local activity provider, from dance and boxing to tennis and netball, as well as downloadable game cards.

Teaming up with food banks

Our relationship with local food banks (Eastleigh, Hedge End and Hound), has allowed us to ensure everyone in the Borough had a chance to take part. Families who used the food bank were given priority booking for the interactive story trail and 80 Park Sport bags containing a range of sports equipment were donated to the food banks for them to give out.