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One of our year 3 pupils, Eddie, joined BBC One’s flagship property renovation show, DIY SOS: The Big Build, as it headed to Hull this September to take on a charitable build with BBC Children in Need for St Michael’s Youth Project in Hull, East Yorkshire.
DIY SOS: The Big Build BBC Children in Need Special will see the programme’s team of Mark, Chris, Jules, Billy and adventure playground engineer, John O’Driscoll, join with kind local tradesmen and volunteers (Including Eddie) to embark on a build that will improve the physical and emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people in Hull and the surrounding areas.
The DIY SOS team, with the help of trade volunteers and Eddie, transformed an empty 2 ½ acre field into a purpose built ‘adventure camping site’ for St Michael’s Youth Project in Hull.
For over 30 years, St Michael’s (St Mike’s) have been working with children and young people in Hull and surrounding areas to deliver a variety of activities that improve children and young people’s emotional and physical health and wellbeing whilst supporting them to build their confidence and self-esteem and raising their aspirations for the future, encouraging them to reach their potential.
The project works with more than 500 children and young people who have little to no access to gardens or greenspaces, and through their programme of support gives them the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of, and learn from, the natural world. St Michael’s organise a small number of camping trips and residentials throughout the year at sites that are at least three hours away, which means that not all of the children they support are able to access them currently.
DIY SOS, along with local trades and volunteers, transformed the empty field into an outdoor sanctuary which will allow the children and young people supported by St Michael’s, and across Hull, to get close to nature and enjoy breaks from the inner city areas that they live in. The team created:
• A field kitchen to teach cooking and to cook
• A landscaped campfire
• A pizza oven
• An exterior covered classroom
• A circular mountain bike course, duel skill level about 1 km
• A bird watching tower
• A low walk rope
• An adventure playground
• A toilet/shower block
• A field kitchen to teach cooking and to cook
• A landscaped campfire
• A pizza oven
• An exterior covered classroom
• A circular mountain bike course, duel skill level about 1 km
• A bird watching tower
• A low walk rope
• An adventure playground
• A toilet/shower block
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