SportLINK
Community Project
SportLINK
Community Project
Project Introduction
SportLINK Community Project plans on training 160 teenagers to participate in long-distance running and enhance their sense of belonging in their livelihood. This programme also wants teens to keep participating in sports and ease their pressure from studying. Increase students’ confidence and develop positive values and expand their social circles. This project also takes part in community promotion and contribution which aims to advocate a healthy lifestyle and the importance of sports.
SportLINK Community Project plans on training 160 teenagers to participate in long-distance running and enhance their sense of belonging in their livelihood. This programme also wants teens to keep participating in sports and ease their pressure from studying. Increase students’ confidence and develop positive values and expand their social circles. This project also takes part in community promotion and contribution which aims to advocate a healthy lifestyle and the importance of sports.
Home Run
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20 Professional Running and Training Lessons
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Community Exchange Runs
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Competition Opportunities
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Career and Life Planning Activities
Target: Young at aged 12-18
Community Class
4 Key Elements
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Learning
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Interest
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Neighbourhood
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Kick Off
Target: Elderly, Family and Children
社區起動「展」關懷
All the hours of exercising from Home Run and Community Class will then be accumulated and converted to “Goodie Bag”
Target: Elderly
Home Run
Home Run is a youth training programme for long-distance running that combines both techniques and fun. Through district-wide sports training, we hope to unleash teens’ potential and increase their sense of belonging to the community. We have invited Asia's top trail runnerWong Ho Chung And his team "The Peak Hunter” to coach the students and lead the programme.
Home Run is a youth training programme for long-distance running that combines both techniques and fun. Through district-wide sports training, we hope to unleash teens’ potential and increase their sense of belonging to the community. We have invited Asia's top trail runnerWong Ho Chung And his team "The Peak Hunter” to coach the students and lead the programme.
8 District Teams
5 Teams' Suggested Community Exploration Route (Downloadable)
Community Run routes
Maps of community runs were designed by Home Run students. They have designed different routes from their community through special attractions and iconic buildings from their neighborhood. Community Run provides opportunities to train in their livelihood and understand more about it. Maps are open for everyone and welcome to try the routes as they did.
(Chinese only)
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Learning Activity
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Competition
2022
The first five-district league of "Home Run" was held at Wo Yi Hop Sports Ground in May 2022. In addition to the 1,500m individual and mixed-gender relay races, there were also special awards, including the "Highest Attendance Rate", "Most Enthusiastic Award" and "Great Leap Forward Award". "Tuen Mun Snails" became the winner with a total score of 280.
It was a great honor to invite Mr Wong Kai Lok, the champion of Hong Kong Marathon, to share and present awards to the students. We were also very grateful that Link had sent their representatives to support and share the joy with the students!
2023
The competition was held on 15 April 2023 at Sir Philip Haddon-cave Sports Field in The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Students competed in their 1500m and 4x400m relay and had shown improvement after 20 lessons of regular training.
Learning Activity
Visiting media agency “Sportsroad”
Visiting Under Armour Hong Kong office
Visiting AME Stadium - Motion Esports Experience
Taping Workshop at AASFP
Sports Massage Workshop at AASFP
COMMUNITY
CLASS
COMMUNITY
CLASS
Total Accumulated Sporting Hours: 6,720 hours = 840 Hygiene Packs (as of Aug 25th 2022)
*8 accumulated sporting hours = 1 Goodie bag
"Community Class" are beginners-friendly sports classes designed for everyone in our neighbourhood - from elderly to young children. The key principle of this community program is “LINK”, which stands for Learning, Interest, Neighbourhood and Kick Off. We “kick start” these sessions with a goal to encourage the culture of regular exercise in the community.
Goodie Bags Distribution
All the hours of exercising from Home Run and Community Class will be accumulated and converted to sporty packs. With the help of LINK’s volunteers and also our students, we will then deliver the Goodie Bag to the hands of the underprivileged group in the community with love and care. In 2022, we gave away a total of 1,337 sports packs.
(As of 31 March 2023)
*8 accumulated sporting hours = 1 Goodie bag
Media Coverage
Total Accumulated Sporting Hours: 6,720 hours = 840 Hygiene Packs (as of Aug 25th 2022)
*8 accumulated sporting hours = 1 Goodie bag
Goodie Bags Distribution
All the hours of exercising from Home Run and Community Class will then be accumulated and converted to “Goodie Bag”. With the help of LINK’s volunteers, we will then deliver the Goodie Bag to the hands of the underprivileged group in the community with love and care.
Total Accumulated Sporting Hours: 4977 hours = 622 Goodie Bags (as of Mar 24th 2022)
*8 accumulated sporting hours = 1 Goodie bag