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£4000 of sport equipment stolen from Chatham sports group
KentOnline / KMTV
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18/04/2024
Sports On Your Doorstep say children from poorer backgrounds will be hit hardest.
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Just what you need, eh? Our lock-up's been broken into and ransacked and loads of gear
00:07
nicked.
00:08
The news no one wants to hear, let alone from a company that provides sports sessions for
00:12
some of the most disadvantaged children in Kent.
00:15
Last Wednesday's Sports on Your Doorsteps saw a break-in that led to thousands of pounds
00:19
of equipment being taken, forcing them to put sessions on hold.
00:23
The whole reason we exist is to engage young people and families in those underserved communities.
00:31
We have to take the sport right to the heart of those communities to remove as many barriers
00:37
as we can and one of those barriers is obviously cost.
00:40
And us bringing equipment and our coaching staff right at the centre of these communities
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means that cost and access to provision is one big barrier that's removed.
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So obviously without this equipment that allows us to pop up in those communities, it leaves
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us in a difficult position.
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Where I'm standing right now in this room, there would have been archery, tags, footballs,
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dodgeballs, you name it, it would have been here.
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Around £4,000 worth of equipment was stolen and that will have a significant impact on
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the community going forward.
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I think it was just disappointment and just people were upset because it's our local community
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that we're trying to deliver sessions to and it's happening in our community.
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It's not like this equipment is somewhere else, it's within the community that we're
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trying to deliver to and it's a real shame that it's happened within our own community.
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I was only talking to some children last week at a session and they asked, we were in a
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town centre doing some boxing and they said "why are you here?"
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So I said "oh we're here to keep you guys away from causing trouble in the local fast
01:40
food restaurants or whatever it is they're doing" and I said "if we can get you away
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from that and get you to change your mindset then we've done our job" and I think unfortunately
01:49
obviously if we can't get out and engage with these people and just try and trigger their
01:53
mindsets then unfortunately they may go down the wrong path which is what we don't want.
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Parents and volunteers are worried what a theft like this will mean for their children
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going forward.
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It helps them socialise with other children, it gets them out off the street doing something
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creative, getting involved with sports that they love doing.
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The coaches are amazing, they support the children in all ways that they can.
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They can't now provide certain sports for the children until the equipment's replaced.
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Yeah it's actually happening on your doorstep, it's heartbreaking.
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The community is thinking of ways to raise funds to help replace the equipment, while
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Kent Police say enquiries are still ongoing.
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But with the Easter holidays coming to an end, schools may be left without the sessions
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that their pupils have come to love.
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Oliver Leeds of the Sacks for KNTV in Medway.
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