Diversionary activities are activities that help keep your mind from other things. We offer a multitude of activities as working on your addiction can be both mentally and physical draining.
Sport is a healthy diversionary activity and reliefs levels of stress. We also provide counselling , therapy, expressive art and creative writing.
Positive diversionary activities are also beneficial in our youth work programs. Sport, arts or cultural activities for
young people can assist the police by playing an important role in
developing resilience to youth offending and risky or anti-social behaviour
and building both understanding and relationships in a positive setting
between young people and the police. Those young people who the police
and local authority find difficult to connect with can be more easily engaged
through such positive settings.
These activities have also been proved to increase educational attainment,
reduce substance misuse and unauthorised school exclusions, as well as
delivering broader objectives which can prevent criminal behaviour in the
long term. These include building self-discipline, improving personal
experiences and skills and interacting with other local young people.