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Gateshead were successful in their bid to take part in the Disadvantaged Subsidy Pathfinder, which aims to provide economically disadvantaged children and young people with high quality out-of-hours activities with the aim of improving well-being, raising standards of achievement and contributing towards improving attainment gaps. This will also assist schools in the development of the ‘varied menu of activities’ element of the Extended Schools core offer.

The Hookergate and Thomas Hepburn clusters were chosen to participate because of their high levels of deprivation and rurality issues. The Hookergate Cluster consists of one secondary school and seven primaries and the Thomas Hepburn Cluster has one secondary school, nine primaries and two special schools, thus there are twenty schools taking part in this first phase of the pathfinder. These schools will benefit from a total of £380,000 for each of the 2 years the Pathfinder will run. In the second year of the Pathfinder the Joseph Swan Cluster will join the Thomas Hepburn and Hookergate Clusters, then the pathfinder project will be rolled out to the remaining seven clusters in Gateshead and nationally to all local authorities in 2010.

Gateshead chose to follow the ‘flexible’ model for the Pathfinder, as this allowed the LA to decide their own target group based on local indicators, rather than free school meals alone. Gateshead have defined their target group through the number of families being classed as ‘hard pressed’. The classification originates from the ACORN index which is used to identify and understand the UK population and the demand for products and services. ACORN categorises all postcodes, which have been described using over 125 demographic statistics within England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and 287 lifestyle variables, making it the most powerful discriminator, giving a clearer understanding of clients and prospects.

Children and young people from the two clusters were invited to a Market Place Event at Thomas Hepburn Community School, which introduced them to an array of various activity providers, for example Stepney Bank Stables, Newcastle United Community Football Foundation and The Soundroom Music Project to name a few. Feedback from the children and young people attending the event was used to inform decisions made by the schools as to what activities to commission.

Within both clusters this funding has been used to extend the variety of free clubs available outside of school hours, weekends and holidays and subsidise the cost of both school visits and residential trips, for example one school has a residential trip planned to Robin Wood during school holidays, whilst another had block booked sessions at a leisure centre on a Saturday to enable parents to take their children for free swimming lessons with transport provided. Check the Hookergate and Thomas Hepburn Cluster pages for more great examples of how children and young people in these clusters have benefitted.

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Here is a list of examples of what all schools in the country participating in the Pathfinder have commisioned with this funding:

ABC music and me
Abseiling
Activity weekend residential
Aerobics
African dance
After-school club
Aikido
Air rifle shooting
Archaeology
Archery
Art class
Art club membership
Arts and crafts sessions
Athletics
Attendance at professional football match
Baby massage
Backwoods cooking (open wood fire)
Badminton
Badminton coaching
Ballet
Bands, orchestras and choirs
Baseball
Basketball
Bassoon lessons
Beach sculpture
Beach sports and play
Bead bugs
Beavers
Before school games club
Belly-dancing
Belly-dancing/Arabic
BMX biking
Bollywood, Bhangra and Chinese fan dance
Bollywood, Bhangra and street dance
Boxercise
Boxing
Boxing club
Brass band tuition and instrument loan
Breakdance
Breakfast club
Brownies attendance
Brownies/Rainbows
Bush craft/backwoods cooking
Bush craft/survival
Camp for kids
Canoeing
Capoeira
Car and motorcycle maintenance
Cardio kick
Cello lessons
Cheeky Monkeys sports club
Cheerleading
Cheerleading/modern movement
Cheerleading: entry to competitions
Children’s shows
Choi hwarang do
Christmas parade, performances and winter wonderland
Cinema: monthly/annual passes
Circuit training
Circus skills
Circus workshop
Clarinet lessons
Climbing
Climbing wall
Climbing wall (mobile)
Comic art
Community breakfast club
Community tops
Computers: purchase of software
Concert band group
Cook and eat
Cookery club
Cooking Arabic food
Core ball classes
Cornet lessons
Countryside fun and games
Creepy crafts
Cricket
Cricket for unaccompanied asylum seekers
Crocker
Cubs
Curling
Cycling proficiency
Dance
Dance and drama sessions –possibly resulting in drama group membership
Dance Bollywood
Dance boys specific
Dance choreography
Dance classes
Dance contemporary
Dance creative
Dance cross art form
Dance Indian - classical
Dance mats - after school clubs
Dancehall - dance class for children to express their emotions
Dancer-cise
Day trip to theme park
Days of play - outside play, woodland games, den building, survival skills, outdoor cooking etc
Diving
Diving for beginners - Flip & Fun
DJ workshops
Double bass lessons
Drama
Drama classes
Drama Rama
Dramaxperience workshop
Drum workshop
Drumming tuition
Duke of Edinburgh award scheme
Elektra dance
Engineering
Environmental projects
Euphonium lessons
Extreme ice skating
Extreme sports
Family games clubs
Family Spanish
Family trip to the National Railway Museum
Fencing club
Fishing
Flamingo Land trip
Flute lessons
Food technology
Football
Football 5 a side
Football activity plus boots/shin pads etc
Football in the community - after school clubs
Football in the community - holiday programme
Free swimming
French
French club
French club 12 month membership
Frock exchange with 7-11 girls
Fun club
Fun learning group (science etc)
Fun with drawing
Get to know your voice
Ghyll scrambling
Gifted and talented development workshops
Go-karting
Go positively mad for goal mapping!
Golf
Graffiti art
Guides
Guitar lessons
Gym and sports club membership (plus equipment)
Gymnastics
Hair and beauty
Half term youth club week of activities
Halloween story walk
Health and fitness club
Healthy eating
High 5 netball
High ropes course
Hiking
Hill walking
Hip-hop dance
Hockey
Holiday play schemes
Holiday programme - local leisure services
Homework/revision clubs
Honeysuckle Farm trip
Horn lessons
Horse riding
Horse riding fun day
Ice hockey
Ice skating lessons
Ice skating sessions plus club membership
Illuminated lantern workshop
Indoor rock climbing
Invent a story & illustrate
It’s a knockout
Jazz dancing
Jazz orchestra
Jewellery making
Ju jitsu course
Judo
Judo lessons
Junior youth theatre
Karate
Kayaking
Keyboard lessons
Kickboxing
Krump dance
Kwick cricket
Lacrosse
Legs, bums and tums
Library club
Lifeguard course
Mad science
Magic and puppet-making
Majorettes
Making a wind-powered buggy
Martial arts
Membership of ‘Go active’ scheme plus subsidies for parents/ carers to attend alongside their children
Membership of youth gym
Mini Olympic challenge
Mixed media drawing
Modern dance
Mountain biking
Mountain boarding
Multi media
Multi skills
Multi sports
Multi sports/ team games
Music - attendance at gigs
Music matters project
Music production
Netball
Night walk
Nunchaku aerobic workout
Oboe lessons
Orchestra
Orienteering
Outdoor pursuits
Outward bound residential
Paint-balling
Parkour - coaches from London
Parkour - local coaches
Percussion lessons
Photography club
Piano lessons
Pilates
Play rangers
Podcasting
Pottery
Power kiting
Problem-solving, team-building & personalised learning
PS2 & Nintendo club
Puppet-making, story-work & performance
Raft-building
Rafting
Rainbows
Recorder lessons
Residential activity weekend
Re-use it fashion design course
Rock and River outdoor adventure session & equipment
Rock climbing
Rock-it ball
Rounders
Rugby
Running
Sailing
Salsa
Salsa-cise
Samba band
Saxophone lessons
Scouts
Scuba diving
Sculpture
Sea cadets
Self defence
Senior Arc Youth Dance
Senior youth theatre
Shelter-building
Short mat bowls
Singer group
Singing - musical theatre project
Singing classes
Singing lessons
Singing lessons
Singing: We sing U sing
Skateboarding
Ski lessons
Snooker
Snowboard lessons
Snowboarding
Soccer academy membership – plus equipment
Soccer school
Something fishy crafts
Song-writing
Spanish
Special school: expansion of summer play-scheme for children with disabilities
Special school: weekly activity club for children with disabilities
Spinning
Sports clubs (external provider)
Sports days
Sports leadership
Squash
St Johns Ambulance after-school club
Step aerobics
Stilt walking
Street dance
String ensemble group
Study skills system (The 6S)
Study support
Summer activities programme
Swimming
Swimming lessons
Swimming passes for families
Table tennis
Taekwondo
Tag rugby
Tai chi
Tap
Team building day
Teen-gym
Ten pin bowling
Tennis
Textiles technology
Thai boxing
Theatre - musical theatre project
Theatre in three days
Tobogganing
Trampoline club
Trampolining
Tri golf
Trip – to ice hockey matches
Trips – to the theatre
Trips – to local attractions
Trombone lessons
Trumpet lessons
Tuba lessons
Tube/luge/snow play
Twilight football
Ultimate cyling workout
Ultimate frisbee
Uni hock
Uniform provision for Brownies/Beavers
Video-editing
Viola lessons
Violin lessons
Volleyball
Walking
Water polo
Watersports centre day trips
Welding/making metal models
Wind ensemble group
Wirework models
Wool craft/hand craft activities
Yoga
Youth orchestra