Our Story
THE BEST CLUB
OUR STORY
We Pride Ourselves In Creating A Unique, Warm and Fun Environment For The Children Who Attend Our Club.
From our experiences teaching in education, Julia creating intervention groups for those struggling in learning and Vicky in teaching sport to those struggling with behaviour, both of us realised that we wanted to create a safe, healthy environment in which children could explore, find motivation and grow a good sense of self-esteem and values.
By taking our research and adding our own observations, over a decade of teaching, ideas and interpretations, we created innovative, engaging and educational programmes that develop those skills that our brains aren’t born with, those skills we need to develop and practice, Life Skills, such as Self-Awareness, Resilience, Empathy.
In 2015, three schools in West London took the plunge and offered us the opportunity to run our programmes, through after school
clubs, for their children, initially to support those who were socially and emotionally challenged.
However, the strategies and techniques that we developed, we used with our own children, and made us realise that our
workshops were valuable for everyone, even us adults!
Our Social & Emotional programmes expanded into clubs, interventions, workshops, holiday courses and from primary schools into pre-schools.
As our own children grew into teenagers, so our research expanded in to the brain development of adolescence and what skills our
young people needed to develop into confident adults.
We were increasingly aware of the mental health statistics that were rising amongst children and young adults, and how anxiety
and stress were now everyday words for adolescence. Our programmes reached out to teenagers, providing a ‘common ground’
where they could begin to explore their thoughts and feelings, within a safe and supportive environment.
As parents, we are ever anxious that we failing our children and unsure in how we are supposed to parent today’s children – are we helicopters, tigers, hummingbirds!? Our parent groups were created to enable us to see our children as unique beings and teach how to parent through the brain’s development.
2020, BEST is running over 20 programmes and expanding throughout schools in West London, with an ever-growing team of instructors. Our online presence with; free activities, kids and teenage pages, regular Blogs and subscription boxes, are enabling BEST to reach out worldwide.
Our mission to “Work towards a world where every child develops the courage to follow their heart and intuition, the resilience to overcome fears and obstacles and the ability to speak out and be heard.” It’s happening.