Community

Football for Unity

This is a sport-based community relations and reconciliation project run in partnership by the local community, the University and Eastbourne Borough Council.  It  brings together groups of adults and children from different cultural backgrounds for weekly football coaching session.

ACTIVE Student

@ctive Student links University of Brighton students with great volunteering opportunities in the local community. This is an outreach programme which aims to engage young people in a range of physical activities such as orienteering, swimming, gymnastics, dance and team games. This project is based in Eastbourne at the School of Sport and Service Management.
The @ctive student programme has been working with St Johns Meads Junior School in Eastbourne since 2003 and brings together over 100 children in years 3, 4, 5 and 6 three times a week for coaching sessions at the University facilities.  75 University of Brighton PE student volunteers have helped in coaching and teaching both boys and girls.

Click here for more information about @ctive student volunteering

Leadership project through Outdoor Education

The University of Brighton has worked closely with Eastbourne Borough Council to provide leadership opportunities in outdoor education for young people from local community secondary schools. This involves leadership training for youngsters aged 14 – 16 who then work with over 100 junior school pupils in an outdoor education day facilitated by University of Brighton students at the School of Sport and Service Management campus.