Met-Track coaches will be getting very little time off during the Christmas and New Year period, with the vast majority of squads continuing as normal at their regular venues. Schools academies will of course be suspended until the new term in January, but most other activities offer a potentially welcome break from Christmas pudding and the TV. Met-Track Scheme Manager Jason Hussain said: "We wish everyone who is associated with Met-Track a really happy Christmas and New Year period, but we don't want them to lose focus on what they may already have achieved with their local squad.
"Most centres are open for our normal activities," he continued, "and we really don't want people to lose that valuable momentum they have built up during the Autumn. And of course anyone new who would like to try out with us is more than welcome to turn up at their local squad."
Met-Track Scheme Director, John Powell, endorsed Jason's words: "We do tend to see a bit of a falling away of attendances after a holiday period, so we want to encourage as many of the young Londoners engaged with the scheme to keep going through the Christmas period. We wil be carrying out the end of year evaluation of the scheme at the beginning of next month, and we want to maximise the benefits that have been delivered to Londoners during 2010 right up to the last day of the year."
Squads affected by Christmas or New Year closures are:
- Newham - 24th December and 31st December - no squad session
- Sutton - 27th December - no squad session
- Waltham Forest - 27th December and 3rd January - no squad session
All Met-Track squads and school academies recommence as normal in the second week of January.
Watch this website for news of launches of two new schemes in London early in 2011...
