Bulletin 26 March 2010

Celebrating Club-Based Youth Work – 75th Anniversary Conference

Friday 21st May 2010, 9.00 am – 4.30 pm, The Assembly Rooms, Newcastle upon Tyne

One-Day Conference for Managers, Practitioners, Committee Members and Young People

Speakers Include:
·                Tony Bennett, Chief Executive of Clubs for Young People
·                Tony Jeffs, Author and Academic on Youth Work

Aims of the Event:
·                To highlight the immense contribution which club-based youth work makes to the lives of young people
·                To share understanding and best practice
·                To learn more about different approaches and programmes
·                To celebrate 75 years of club based youth work

Workshops
1.         SAP Training – use of multi sports to engage young people
2.         Managing a good club – including an introduction to CYP Quality Mark
3.         Issue based work in clubs
4.         Alternative education in youth clubs
5.         Keyfund – successful club-based projects
6.         Participation – young people running clubs
7.         Developing and supporting volunteers
8.         The diversity of partnership work in clubs

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Vetting and Barring

As this issue is of great significance to many organisations in our sector, we have tried to group together the latest information on ISA, CRB and new procedures. You can download some useful information. The Unit will be coordinating a seminar on Vetting and Barring, later in the year.

The Home Office has published updated guidance on the Vetting and Barring Scheme. The document contains details on the scope of the Scheme; barring arrangements; responsibilities and duties for both employers and volunteer organisers, and the duties for those individuals you take on; timescales for the phased implementation of the Scheme; and explanation of transitional arrangements around Scheme introduction.

Rise Project

As part of a project with Newcastle City Council, Changemakers’ Young Advocate Lusi Manukyan is organising some creative workshops for young people from emerging communities.  The workshops will discuss what young people who have recently come to Newcastle from a different country think of living in the city and how their lives can be made better.  Lusi wants young people to show what being in Newcastle is like through photography, creative writing and art.  The results of the workshops are then hopefully going to be made into a book which will document these young people’s voices.

If you have any questions about the project or would like to get involved, please get in touch with Lusi or Lizzie Spencer, who is supporting her, on lusi.manukyan@newcastle.gov.uk or lizzie.spencer@newcastle.gov.uk, 07854170023 or 0191 260 6516.

Launch of UK Youth’s Campaign Challenge Toolkit

UK Youth’s Hearing Unheard Voices project is funded through BIG lottery fund for 3 years; to give young people the skills and opportunities to speak up to shape services, through media and campaigning activities. HUV is aimed at young people aged 11-18, with a particular focus on those who are rarely heard such as homeless/ carers/refugees/ LGBT/ BME/ disabled/ parents and NEET’s.

The training day is heavily subsidised by UK Youth and each delegate will receives a free copy of the brand new Campaign Challenge Toolkit.

The day will be centred around UK Youth’s new Campaign Challenge toolkit, with a morning session on campaigning leading into media training in the afternoon. The toolkit will provide resources and activity ideas which can be taken away with you as well as an outline on how to incorporate accreditation into campaigning.

The toolkit focuses on equipping young people with the skills and resources to be able to start a campaign. The training will equip you as the service provider with a better understanding of what campaigning is; along with ideas on how to generate publicity and approaching the media. This will enable you to go away and plan your first campaign with your group of young people.
The Campaigning Challenge Toolkit will be launched through a number of national training days entitled ‘Developing and Promoting a Campaign with Young People’
At the end of this training, participants will have gained knowledge on:
•    Understanding of what campaigning is and what it can achieve
•    Developing a group culture for campaigning within your group
•    What is essential and important for campaigning
•    Planning a campaign: strategy, timing, expertise and budgets
•    A detailed look into how new social media can have an impact in campaigning
•    How to implement a media strategy into the campaigning
•    A clear understanding of how to use the Campaign Challenge Toolkit accreditations.
The training is at Durham on the Monday 7th June 2010. The time of the training is from 10.00am to 4.00pm. The cost of the training day is £50 plus VAT per person. A sandwich lunch will be provided. Each delegate will receive a free copy of UK Youth’s new Campaigning Challenge Toolkit to take away with them.  If you would like to book on to this training course, please contact Charmaine Simpson at yaa@ukyouth.org.

Launch of UK Youth’s Think Big Programme

On the 9th March, O2, working with UK Youth and the National Youth Agency, launched Think Big – a new social action programme supporting young people who want to make a positive difference in their communities.
UK Youth will be heading up all of the training involved in the project, providing young people and their O2 helpers with all the tools they need to run a successful programme and to become inspired to reach their full potential.
Think Big wants to hear from young people with bright ideas for projects that will bring people together and benefit communities. Successful applicants will receive a £300 grant towards project costs and a day’s training with UK Youth in the skills they will need to get their idea up and running. If this project is a success, they will then have the opportunity to apply for an additional grant of up to £2500, and four days’ leadership training. O2 employees will support the projects by volunteering as on-line helpers and mentors. The aim of the project is to fund at least 500 projects this year alone – an investment of £3 million from O2.

The Think Big programme focuses on young people aged from 13 to 25 and UK Youth will be providing all the relevant training they need to elevate their skills, ensuring they get the very best out of themselves and their projects.
UK Youth will help support the young people in developing leadership skills, to become positive role models, to build self confidence and will help to challenge negative perceptions and stereotypes that exist about young people, with the aim to bring about lasting positive change.
Think Big aims to harness the incredible talents of young people to bring people together in their communities.  The Think Big team wants to help young people make the most of their potential and inspire others. If they’ve got a great project idea, we’ll help them get it off the ground. We’ll give them the support, training and funding to make it work.

For any general enquiries or information about the Think Big programme please feel free to email kate@ukyouth.org

Platform 2 Artists interpretations of poverty in developing countries

April 15th-21st, The Holy Biscuit, Opposite The Biscuit Factory
April 15th: Launch Evening 6-8pm
April 16th: 12-6pm
April 17th: 11-5pm
April 18th: 11-4pm
April 19th-21st: 12-6pm

‘In the Face of Poverty’ contemporary art exhibition consists of a collection of artwork by up and coming artists and photographers from the North East who went to India with Platform2. Inspired by the people they met and communities they became part of, they have created artwork in a range of media: photography, charcoal and pastel drawings, graffiti art and videos. Platform2 artists explore perceptions of poverty through their work, and will do various workshops and awareness raising activities around development issues. They will also be telling their stories of their volunteering experience through talks and presentations. This exhibition will be held at the brand new venue, Shieldfield Methodist Church which has been renovated by the Biscuit Factory and transformed into ‘The Holy Biscuit’. The exhibition is free and is a great chance to share life changing experience of the artists and explore international poverty.

Bulletin 19 March 2010

Salto Training

Date: 2010-03-10
Title: ToT “Risk awareness”
From 2010-06-11 to 2010-06-14 in Bulgaria
Activity type: Training course
Target groups: Trainers
For participants from: ALL YOUTH IN ACTION PROGRAMME COUNTRIES, SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, EASTERN EUROPE AND CAUCASUS, MEDITERRANEAN PARTNER COUNTRIES
For detailed information, please have a look at http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-training/1753.html
Title: Be the Change You Want to See in the World training platform
From 2010-05-02 to 2010-05-10 in France
Activity type: Training course
Target groups: Project managers, Young people, Youth leaders, Youth Policy Makers, Youth workers
For participants from: EU MEMBER STATES, NEIGHBOURING PARTNER COUNTRIES
For detailed information, please have a look at http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-training/1754.html
Title: IF THIS IS EUROPE, WHO AM I?!
From 2010-05-17 to 2010-05-23 in Turkey
Activity type: Training course
Target groups: Project managers, Young people, Youth leaders, Youth workers
For participants from: ALL YOUTH IN ACTION PROGRAMME COUNTRIES
For detailed information, please have a look at http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-training/1755.html

Show Us What You Can Do

Get involved with Shine, celebrate the talents of all young people.

Shine is a national campaign celebrating every talent young people have to offer in Britain today, culminating in a weeklong festival of events from July 12th – 16th.  From interior design to body-popping, sports to community work, everyone has a talent and Shine wants to help young people discover, showcase and celebrate theirs, no matter what it may be.

Past years have seen schools and youth organisations showcase their members’ skills and help make events such as Lording It (150 young people taking over the floor of the House of Lords) great successes.

Each registered organisation is given their own page on the dedicated Shine website – shineweek.co.uk – on which to showcase their members’ talents.  An additional feature, new for this year is the Shine Talent Flicker, a digital showcase of talent featured on the website and where you might just find one or two entries from a couple of famous faces….

Shine is asking young people to upload photos, videos, documents etc of their talent to the online showcase as we build a census of the different skills young people have to offer.  These will be added to the Talent Flicker to be taken offline and onto the streets later in the year in the lead-up to Shine Week.

For more information go to www.shineweek.co.uk

Launch of UKYouth’s Enterprise Challenges Toolkit

As part of a 3 year project funded by the Garfield Weston Trust to support youth workers to develop enterprise skills with their young people, UK Youth have developed an Enterprise Challenges toolkit.
Rather than teaching young people how to set up their own microbusinesses this toolkit aims to support workers to develop a range of entrepreneurial skills that can be transferred to a variety of settings. Skills like problem solving, team work, knowing your own strengths and weaknesses, communication etc are all covered in a fun and interesting way.
The Enterprise Challenges Toolkit will be launched through a number of training days entitled ‘Creating a Can Do Culture: Developing and Accrediting Enterprise Learning through the Youth Challenges and Youth Achievement Awards. ‘
This training aims to
•    Introduce participants to UK Youth’s Enterprise initiative and toolkit
•    Raise participant’s awareness of the opportunities for accrediting young people’s enterprise skills through the Awards.
This training is split into two parts, as follows:

The Morning – an introduction to the Youth Challenges and Youth Achievement Award programme, aimed at workers who have not attended the full Youth Achievement Awards Introductory Training Day.

The Afternoon – targeted at existing Award Group Workers who wish to extend their youth work to include learning through enterprise and explore how you can accredit this through the Awards.

Please note: Delegates are welcome to attend the full day (if new to the Awards) or the afternoon session only (if trained and experienced in delivery of the Awards). We are unable to offer places on the morning session only.
Tuesday 30th March 2010- St Aiden’s College, Durham
The times of the training are
Morning: 10.00am to 12.30pm, Afternoon: 1.30pm – 4pm

The cost of the training day is £50 plus VAT per person.

Lunch will be provided for full day delegates

To book and for more information please visit  http://www.ukyouth.org/whatwedo/conferences

Project Northumberland – A New Look

Project Northumberland has been supporting young people in Newcastle and Northumberland since March 2004. In that time, hundreds of disengaged and disaffected teenagers and young adults have been helped to turn their lives around as they re-engaged with education, joined a training course of their choosing as a route to qualifications or found a job at last!  Our dedicated team of development tutors and volunteers has worked closely with each individual to ensure they made the most of their opportunities. Our files are full of letters and emails from parents, carers, teachers and others thanking us for the change our programmes and mentoring schemes have made in these young lives. Our funders have continued to provide the cold cash which is the lifeblood of the project and well over one million pounds has been raised to help us do what we do increasingly well. The award of the coveted nationally credited matrix standard early this year recognised the quality of the information, advice and guidance which we give to our young people.

Our team is larger and more effective that ever before. From a small team of two development tutors and a part time administrator in 2004 we have grown to four development tutors, a full time administrator and a dedicated programme manager.
Our small two-person office from which we worked in 2004 we now have an office suite and dedicated training room in Newcastle.  Our Northumberland team works out of our office and training room in Blyth and we are planning to identify yet more space in Blyth in the coming weeks.

Some dedicated funding from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust will enable us to expand the team temporarily during 2010. We shall be appointing an additional three assistant development tutors and two additional administrative assistants for one year only, enabling us to increase the number of young people we work with in both Newcastle and Northumberland.

Our new look for 2010-11 brings with it a new name and a new logo. From April 1st we shall be know as LOOKWIDE UK.  Local programme delivery will be from the same centres as now, though of course with expanded teams.  From Newcastle we shall operate as LOOKWIDE NEWCASTLE,  based at our West Fifteen, Whickham View Centre.  Our Northumberland delivery, to be known as LOOKWIDE NORTHUMBERLAND will be from Croft House, on Waterloo Road in Blyth. Overall management, and our responsibility to Northumberland Scouts, will not change.

In the course of the next weeks and months we shall be introducing new branding. Thus will start with our website.  The new address will be www.lookwide.org.uk from April 1st 2010.

Our telephone numbers remain the same. Lookwide Newcastle will share its facilities with NS Training, the adult training division of Northumberland Scouts, and now with Northumberland Scouts County Administration. When you ring West Fifteen on 0191 274 3335, you will be directed to either the Lookwide Team, the NS Training Team or Northumberland Scouts administration. Each of these departments will have its own voicemail facility.

Croft House, for which you will still dial 01670 540404, will be home to Lookwide Northumberland, Project Lindisfarne and a contact point for Northumberland County Scouts.

So: a new look, a different feel, lots more people but essentially the same service to young people on which Project Northumberland has built its reputation.

Champ Awards

Do you work with children or young people?
£30,000 cash Awards to be won in the categories:
-    Schools
-    Communities
-    Young people’s involvement

The CHAMP Awards are now open for 2010. So if you know of a project which helps children and young people stay safe from the effects of alcohol misuse then please apply by the 21st April, 2010.
The Mentor UK CHAMP Awards recognises and rewards the best of these projects- those which help develop young people’s skills and promote healthy attitudes and behaviours.
Here we also share ideas from some of the most inspiring and give information on how to run, fund and assess your own programme.
In fact, whether you’re a teacher, community worker, parent or young person you’ll find helpful guidance and information about alcohol and how to go about protecting our children and young people from its harmful effects – both now and in their future lives.
For more information please visit: www.champawards.org.uk