Kool Kids Club

Latest News

To take a look at the ABC News report on the Kool Kids Club from February 2010. Click here.

To read about our generous donation of $50,000 from Clovelly Community Bank. Click here.

For some great photos of the girls from the club performing a dance for Pru Goward, MP, Shadow Minister for Community Services. Click here.

Here's the Kool Kids Club Entry for Tropfest Jr 2010

What we do

Kool Kids Club (aka. La Perouse Supported Activities Program) was established in 2001 as a response to the limited recreation and leisure opportunities for children aged 7 - 13 years in the La Perouse area.

Kool Kids Club is a prevention and early intervention initiative providing FREE after school and holiday activity programs in La Perouse and the surrounding areas. The program supports the development of well being, resilience and competence for children and young people, fostering protective factors by building on young people's strengths and enhancing their connections with community and family.

The program actively engages with children who have been identified as participating in anti-social activities, as well as children universally, and provides a program of age appropriate activites.

This operates in the South East Sydney planning area and is available to children and young people living in the La Perouse, Chifley, Little Bay, Phillip Bay and Matraville areas specifically and also those attending school at La Perouse and Soldiers Settlement Primary Schools.

The programs are designed to challenge and enhance children's abilities and life skills. Some examples of the programs we run include Indigenous surfing, dance, short film projects, music workshops, sports, arts and Indigenous cooking.

Over 80% of the children that attend Kool Kds Club identify as Aboriginal. Kool Kids Club is staffed by Indigenous and non-Ingigenous youth workers.

Annual Report '07 '08

SAVE KOOL KIDS CLUB

Kool Kids Club has been funded by three funding bodies under the Department of Community Services; these funding bodies include the Aboriginal Child, Youth and Family Strategy (ACYFS), Families NSW and Better Futures. In 2009 ACYFS changed it's focus from children 0 - 18 years to children 0 - 5 years, This has resulted in Kool Kids Club losing a third of our funding. We have also been informed that Families NSW and Better Futures are not going to fund our program after June 2010. Kool Kids Club is now searching for ongoing funding to run our program in the future; there is no immediate threat to our program delivery.

Here's a short video on what we do

If you would like to help Kool Kids Club in our funding campaign, please email us on koolkidsclub@ssys.org