In January 2023, P-Toon Flights became the 8th Junior Darts Academy to be registered in Scotland, and the first to be registered in The Scottish Borders. This was in direct response to young people who attend the Saturday Night Drop-In, who expressed an interest in Peebles having a dedicated junior darts club.
Oor Space Youthy’s young leadership team, Peebles Youth Place Changers #PYPC took the lead with this initiative, and what started with young people expressing an interest in darts, turned into them pitching their idea to two volunteer youth workers at Oor Space Youthy. Our dedicated volunteers were that impressed, they agreed to take on the commitment of becoming Accredited Junior Darts Coaches which led to the creation of P-Toon Flights.
Through young people feeling feeling empowered and supported to share their thoughts and vision, they embraced the challenge of creating their own darts academy, not only for themselves, but for all young people within the community. This is more than just a darts club, it’s another safe and youth friendly space within the community for young people to feel safe, healthy, active, nurtured, achieve, respected, responsible and included.
The darts sessions give young people a sense of worth, confidence and pride by committing to a local community sports team which fosters team working, good sportsmanship, and encouragement, and. The opportunity of competing in national and international competitions, while helping young people to feel accomplished as they are some of Scotland’s very few registered junior darts players.
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