Barrow Sports Council have been running daily activities on the 3G pitches of Pulse Soccer, at the Park Leisure Centre, with coaches from Barrow AFC Community Sports pulling the strings.
The sessions take place every weekday during the holidays – with the exception of Monday, August 31 – and have seen boys and girls turn up to try their hand at a number of sports.
While football is as popular as ever, other sports are regularly played as well during the two-hour windows, with the children themselves choosing what they want to do.
“We do what the kids want to do,” said Barrow AFC Community Sport’s Marc McAloone. “It’s very relaxed. “We play football, cricket, rounders, sports like that. If not all the kids want to play football, we won’t make them play football, we will give them something else to play.
“It’s about giving them an opportunity to stay for the whole two hours.
“We don’t want to say ‘if you don’t want to play football, you’ll have to go’. That’s not what it’s about.”
The sessions will continue until Friday, September 4, between 2pm and 4pm each afternoon. They are open to children aged between eight and 15.
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