Playing for Success Centre awarded £10,000 to fund Exmoor Extension Project

Simon Lowe, the Manager of the Playing for Success Study Support Centre that is based in the Centre of Excellence at the County Ground, has recently received some very good news.

When I called to see him yesterday morning he told me: "Earlier this year I was asked to submit a bid to the D.F.E. for extra funding and I have just been informed that we have been awarded £10, 000 to enable us to enhance our provision here at the centre."

Simon continued: "What I am going to do is to involve schools who up until now have been unable to get into the centre because of where they are. The money that we have now received will be used to fund the Exmoor Extension Project which means we will now be able to involve Danesfield School at Williton, Minehead Middle School and Dulverton Middle School."

The project gets underway on Monday March 3rd and runs for six weeks, with each school coming into the centre once a week for a three hour session.

Each session will consist of two hours working in the centre with Simon and his staff and a member of staff from the school, plus a one hour coaching session in the Centre of Excellence with former Somerset player Peter Robinson.

The Playing for Success Centre Manager concluded: "This exciting project will enable us to enhance and extend the use of the centre by opening it's doors to students who up until now have been prohibited from getting here after school because of where they live."

The Exmoor Extension Project will run at the centre in addition to the programme that is already being provided to students from schools in Bridgwater, Wellington and Wiveliscombe.