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Welcome to this month's Child-Friendly Medway newsletter
filled with news of our recent events and details of what we have coming soon
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The Mini Youth Games have begun
 The Mini Youth Games got underway recently with hockey as the first sport on the tournament schedule for 2022/23.
The games, which are run by Medway Sport and sponsored by Child-Friendly Medway, involve around 4,000 children from primary schools across Medway taking part in a series of sports competitions throughout the school year.
Prizes are awarded at each event with points gained towards an overall title.
Holcombe Hockey Club hosted the first events, with Fairview Community Primary School and St Thomas of Canterbury School winning the two hockey tournaments.
To view our photos from the hockey, visit our Facebook album of the event.
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Spooky crafts and a film to mark Halloween
Witches, ghouls and black cats joined us for our spooky cinema screening of The Witches, held during half-term at Mid-Kent College's Glassbox Theatre.
The event saw 200 children and their families enjoy Halloween crafts, face-painting and a Roald Dahl quiz before watching the film and taking home a copy of the book to enjoy.
The books were given out as part of our newest campaign 'For the Love of Reading' – aimed at inspiring children and young people to read more.
See our album of photos from the event here.
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New basketball sessions to begin
 Following the success of our popular Family Fun FriYAY and drop-in football sessions with Medway Sport, we are now sponsoring drop-in basketball to widen our offer of free sports for children and young people.
The basketball sessions begin on 7 November and take place every Monday during term-time at Medway Park in Gillingham.
Coaches from Kent Crusaders Basketball Club will support the sessions, which are organised by Medway Sport and are free to attend with no need to book.
There are two separate sessions for different age groups:
From 6.30pm-7.30pm for under-13s
From 7.30pm-8.30pm for over-13s
For more information about all our free sports, visit the family sport webpage.
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Trick or Treating fun around the shops
 The second of our Safer Streets events saw children and young people enjoying trick or treating around The Pentagon Shopping Centre in Chatham.
Participants crafted a goblet and then followed clues leading them around participating shops, where they collected stamps and received stickers and goodies to fill up their goblet. Once their card was filled, they got to visit the Scare Zone for a photo, which was shared in the Scare and Share competition gallery.
The children and young people attending also received a book from Child-Friendly Medway as part of the 'For the Love of Reading' campaign which encourages young people to read more.
This was the latest in a series of monthly events we are organising across Medway covering Luton, Chatham and Rochester, using funding secured from the Home Office’s Safer Streets Fund.
Future events include Christmas activities, a Grimm's fairy tales theatre workshop, a World Book Day celebration, an Easter-themed family event and lots more creative workshops - all running until August 2023.
The funding for this series of events is part of more than £200,000 the Medway Taskforce and Kent Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Scott secured to continue the Safer Streets work in Medway and other projects including bystander training, replacing bins and improving CCTV.
Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for details of all our upcoming events.
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Family Fun FriYAY
Every Friday, 4.30-6.30pm, Medway Park, Gillingham
Free drop-in family sports night with a range of sports for all ages run by Medway Sport coaches.
Learn More
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Christmas Light Switch-ons
Various times and locations
Children's characters, including Cocomelon's JJ, will join Christmas light switch-ons across Medway.
Learn more
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