Thank you so much for the experience. Personally my children and I had a once in a lifetime experience, which we will treasure forever.

Professionally I will promote your facility whenever I get chance

Barry Cutler
Auditel Cost Management

I thought the week went really well, particularly the activities that you provided for us. Please can you pass on my thanks to your colleagues.

The children were really excited, motivated and certainly enjoyed it! It's a fantastic way to encourage the children to work as part of a team and keeps them active at the same time. It therefore meets the standards set by the National Curriculum. I thought that the ability of yourself and colleagues to work with the large groups that we allocated you shows fantastic management skills especially keeping 60 children engaged for 90 minutes. We will definitely want to book the challenge for change team in the future.

Thanks again,
Caroline

Caroline Ford
(Key Stage 3, PE)
The Deanery High School, Frog Lane, Wigan, WN1 1HQ

All at West Bank Bears u16's would like to say thank you to all the staff at Challenge 4 Change. The night was fantastic and the session was just what the lads needed.
I would personally like to thank Chris and Dennis for all the work they did on Monday night.

Once again can I just say thank you to all the staff at Challenge 4 Change

Kind regards,

Neil Fallon
Head Coach
West Bank 16's

FC United Visit 16/01/10

Hi - I am getting in touch to follow up from our squad's session at Challenge 4 Change on Saturday. I'm one of FC United's board members and came along to watch the fun.

The feedback from the players has been nothing but glowing - they thought it was fantastic, and I've started seeing comments from some of our braver supporters that they would be interested in organising a fans' event too!

On behalf of Andy, Karl and the squad can I say thank you for an amazing day out and I hope we'll be seeing you again.

Kind regards,
Helen Lambert
FC United of Manchester.

More information about the day can be found using these links:

Chris Whiteley and Karl Marginson talk about a team training session with a difference.
What the FC United players thought of the day.
Pictures taken on the day, direct from the FC United site

Hi Chris can I just say a massive thank you for fitting us in at C4C.

As new coaches of swinton lions we wanted to get all the squad new and old in to a different environment for their first session. We felt that we wanted the boys to meet away from rugby and to do something that would help them instantly bond as a team, as well as giving them a good solid conditioning session.

The club and players thought that the session was brilliant. They were amazed at how your session got everyone to gel together in such a short space of time. All the players commented on how tough the session was but how fun it was. The confidence and team work that we took from this environment has filtered through to our training camp with team mates giving each other encouragement while pushing each other to their limits while always keeping the focus on team work that was brought out by our visit to C4C.

We had never met some of the players before and they had never met each other before this night but they are now working together like a team who has been in each other’s company for a long time and we feel it is down to the first session at C4C.

We would definitely recommend this activity to any team who wish to become a highly motivated and ambitious team in sport or business. Its bonding qualities are second to none.

Thanks for everything

Ian Watson & Paul Smith
Swinton lions

Hi Chris

Just wanted to feedback some of the comments from young people and their families from the last 2 sessions we have attended.

The session we attended on Monday 27th July, the young girl who I brought said she really enjoyed the session and she learnt that people are not always what they seem as she thought the other 2 girls who attended would have no fear and would be better than her because they were louder but actually what they projected out to others was not how they really are. This has helped Hollie a lot because many of the issues she faces are connected to pressure from peer group. The session encouraged Hollie and I to discuss identity, how people view others and others view us and the direct influence this has on our own behaviour. The session was an excellent catalyst for a very worthwhile and in depth discussion that has lead on to us completing some more work sessions on self image.

The family I brought yesterday also really enjoyed it. The girls particularly welcomed the opportunity to spend sometime as a family. It was a joy to see dad and children working together and the youngest sister was particularly impressed with her dad's ability to do the leap of faith blind folded, "how cool is my dad" was her actual words. This is a family who do have problems with communication. The skills utilised in this session and the way everyone worked together as a family has given me a great opportunity to complete a family session on transferable skills using what was learnt in this session to real life family situations particularly in relation to listening, positive language and problem solving.

Thank you for an excellent 2 days worth of creative, exciting and worthwhile real life work that will far extend the boundaries of the challenge for change centre.

Cheers
Joanne Eames
Children and Young Peoples Services
Youth Inclusion and Support Team Officer
Wigan Council