Starbucks Centrale Scheme

Wild in the City is a community organisation working to increase people's well-being by enabling urban residents to rediscover and connect with nature. London has beautiful pockets of woodland, specifically oak woodland in South London, yet many people don't know it's there. We are creating a community of people gathering together in nature to experience the benefits that come with spending time in the outdoors. Living and working in a busy urban environment, people can often find their daily lives busy and stressful. Spending time in nature has been founds to reduce stress, depression and anxiety, induce meditative feelings and improve mood and memory. From parks and woods, we create experiences that teach traditional techniques, such as bush-craft and navigating skills, which help people to feel closer to their ancestral past as well as to their present. We create experiences that encourage community members of all ages and backgrounds to immerse themselves in local green spaces. For example, our Into The Wild programme empowers 16-25 year olds to increase their personal development through learning practical woodland skills and therapeutic reflection. We have big plans for the future: introducing an exciting new project that will encourage office workers to spend time working outdoors and a Natural Health Service helping people to improve their physical and emotional health through physical activity in beautiful outdoor spaces. Come and join us by the campfire! We're always looking for volunteers to help with our projects and activities - from building sustainable outdoor furniture that 'leaves no trace' to helping us to promote our fantastic workshops and opportunities. Please share our project page using the social icons on this page to let your friends and followers know how they can benefit from spending time in London's wild and wonderful pockets of nature.

There is a simple way to diagnose most cardiac abnormalities. This is by having an ECG (electrocardiogram) test and getting the results read by a cardiologist. For extra clarity an Echocardiogram (ultrasound scan – right) can also be done. Screening means having an Electrocardiogram (ECG), which looks at the electrical conduction pathways around the heart. Small stickers known as electrodes are placed on the client’s chest and the wires connect to an ECG machine whilst you lie still. A printout of the heart’s electrical activity is obtained for evaluation by the cardiologist. This test is painless, non-invasive and takes only a few minutes to perform. An Echocardiogram (Echo) is an ultrasound test (such as offered to pregnant women) which looks at the structure of the heart. From the information provided on screen, measurements are taken which give a guide to muscle thickness and size of the chambers of the heart. Again, this test is non-invasive and painless; and it takes approximately 20 minutes to perform. Screening will identify most cardiac abnormalities. At least 12 young people die suddenly each week in the UK of previously undetected heart problems. We encourage young people to take better care of their heart/health in a broader sense. Screening can also help reassure parents who are well aware that these tragedies occur and often cannot gain access to further information at a time when there are increasing demands on physical fitness in all high profile sports. We recommend that screening is requested via your GP if there have been any young sudden deaths in the family. Or if there are symptoms of: Chest Pain (exercise related) Severe Breathlessness Palpitations Prolonged Dizziness Fainting/Blackouts The screening service that CRY offers is provided free of charge to the person who is being checked, but it is estimated that it costs CRY approximately £50 per screening. We would aim to screen 100 young people in a day and, as such, each day of screening would cost £5,000 to the charity. We rely on the donations and fundraising that our supporters and corporate supporters provide as we do not receive any government funding.

We target 14-21 year olds from Croydon and the surrounding boroughs, who are disengaged and/or disadvantaged. Focusing on community togetherness, using football as the hook for participation, we offer free sessions regardless of gender, ability, financial situation or ethnicity, which deliver structured, engaging and fun football coaching. Using sport to attract and engage with the young people, we deliver a wide range of educational services alongside opportunities for our clients to improve their employability. This includes a free GCSE/homework support drop-in session, where young people can gain access to a specialised tutor in a much smaller and more focussed class environment than they are likely to experience when at school. The regular sporting involvement also helps build the ‘soft skills’ of the young people, such as team work, time keeping and leadership. The Kinetic Foundation provides regular opportunities for the young people who use our existing projects to obtain FA coaching qualifications free of charge. Once qualified these young people then become the lead coaches (under supervision) at the weekly community football sessions the Foundation runs. In this way the structure of the Foundation ensures that many of the young people who have used our services ‘give something back’ through volunteering their time to run the sessions. This provides them with an opportunity to deliver feedback on the sessions, and take a proactive role in planning and delivering future sessions. The young people also enhance their CVs and improve their employability through regular football related volunteering in a recognised environment. The young volunteer coaches who have already benefited from the work of the Foundation also act as role models and mentors to the other young people in attendance, identifying and relating to any issues which the young people may be experiencing and helping them by drawing from their own previous experiences. This encourages the growth of these young people and provides the motivation they need to seek further education or employment. We also run the Kinetic Academy, an educational partnership with two local schools. This programme awards the most talented footballers identified from the community sessions a free scholarship to study for a Sport Btec, alongside training regularly, playing national and international fixtures and attending trials for professional clubs, all of which the Foundation delivers. Due to the socio-economic situation of the majority of young people we engage with, and the lack of existing sport programmes in Croydon, without the Foundation the opportunities we provide would not exist at all. Whilst football is used as a means to attract and retain participants, our emphasis is on education and employability. We provide various different services, and those who engage fully with the programme have a real chance of improving their future employability and education situation.