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Getting dads engaged in six weeks - a demonstration project in sharrow
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Photo of dads and children at a workshop

Giving it a go

We decided to put some of the learning from the case studies into practice and to test how best to engage dads in activities in a local community.

We put the programme together in six weeks and ran three events in different sites aimed at different dads with different interests and different ages of children.

We ran these events over two weekends at a Study Support Centre at Sheffield United Football Club, the local library and the local school.

As part of the project we spoke to over 100 dads with children on the streets of Sharrow.

You can find out more about what we planned and what happened by clicking on the links at the right hand side of this page.

What happened

Photos from the events

The resources we used