The Sky Project

SKY – Stuff for Kids and Youth – provides a grass-roots, cost-free service offering youth work, life skills and opportunities for personal growth for disadvantaged children and young people in Shortlees, Kilmarnock.

SKY aims to combat the restrictions placed upon children and young people through poverty by offering hope to the young people in the area and encouraging them to aim to achieve their full potential.

As a result of the high level of poverty the project ensures that none of the groups incur a cost regardless of whether this is a weekly club, chill out night or a week long holiday club giving the children and young people a place where they are accepted and allowed to express themselves.

Funding from Cash for Kids allowed the project to provide a Christmas party and presents for the most vulnerable children in the community, for a few hours these disadvantaged children were able to forget the problems that their families face each day giving them happy experiences and memories. Further funding during the summer holidays enabled the children to participate in a number of day trips – something many of the children attending would not have the opportunity to do without this funding. A healthy snack/breakfast & lunch was provided during play scheme hours (often children attending the group did not have breakfast or consume a small meal the night prior). Funding also allowed the children to take part in arts & crafts workshops.

Jennifer Townsend, Development Officer, The Sky Project noted that the generosity of Westsound’s Cash for Kids supporters has been overwhelming. Without this funding vulnerable children in the Shortlees area would not have had the opportunity to experience such memorable activities.