London’s Favourite Parks Are Covered in Orange
Take a stroll through your favourite London park and amongst the dog walkers, the duck feeders and the morning joggers, you will find an assembly of children and sports coaches uniformed in bright orange.
Take Holland Park sports field, for example. This lovely green space, bordered with oak and poplar trees, is home to over 2,000 football and rugby classes all year round. Holland Park is the flagship home for The Little Foxes Club, London’s premier children’s sports club, bringing physical and lifestyle education to young people.
Since 2007 and its modest beginnings at Holland Park, The Little Foxes Club has expanded into London boroughs outside of Kensington and Chelsea. Google Maps show the trademark orange across the city’s most familiar open spaces. A bird’s-eye view of Hurlingham Park in Fulham shows neat rows of football goals and pitches flanked by orange canopies, providing shelter to children from autumn through to the height of summer. A street view of Ravenscourt Park in Chiswick shows a picture of football and rugby sessions taken by a passer-by, attracted by the large orange flag marking the enclosed games area. Through rain, sun and snow The Little Foxes Club brings a wide array of football, tennis and rugby coaching classes to children aged 18 months to 12 years.
Weather is just one of the reasons children give for not participating in the recommended hour of physical activity each day. Family life is hectic and making sports convenient is one way The Little Foxes Club aims to positively impact children’s health. A founding value of the club is to encourage active fun and games, no matter what the weather brings. This is helped by the very successful addition of indoor classes for younger children. Another hugely popular idea was the launch of “Girls Only” Football classes. 2014 saw the number of girls joining the club double as a result!
To make classes even more accessible, the Customer Relations Team is dedicated to its customers 7 days a week throughout the year. And with a team of coaches selected for their sporting merits—recruited from university or having been recognised for their sporting qualifications—families, carers and schools are looked after both on and off the pitch.
West London can expect to see even more of The Little Foxes Club in the future. With the decline in children’s health and fitness remaining a recurring subject in the media, the club’s goal is to cover every London Park in orange.
For more information, visit The Little Foxes Club website.
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