Young people from the first Net Assets meeting have requested another to see how the campaign can be taken forward.
With this in mind we we will be hanging out and doing a mini-film project to kickstart our campaign.
Sat 21st April at the RYWU Offices, 11am – 4pm
Lunch is included.
Click here to get the flyer and promote to your young people!
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From the 9th-11th March, 19 young people attended a residential weekend at Brathay as part of the Truth About Youth project.
17 were new young people who have not previously been directly involved in Truth About Youth. The weekend consisted of outdoor activities where young people challenged themselves and also lots of planning for the upcoming year.
All the young people will join the Truth About Youth steering group and take on responsibility for planning events and projects.
See images of the weekend by clicking here.
Posted by Ria | 0 commentsThe RYWU-NE are delighted to announce the addition of another young person to our staff team. Katy Portrey has been employed as a Peer Coordinator Apprentice to coordinate and support the programme of work being delivered by the North East Youth Network. Katy will be working with the Network to further develop the groups campaign on youth unemployment; ‘Reducing the Gap’. If you are a young person and would like to be part of the Network’s steering group or are a practitioner who is interested in this piece of work and would like to contribute to it, please get in touch with Neil Burke on neil@rywu.org.uk or 0191 4404410.
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NE-Generation is committed to equipping the Cultural Sector to work with young people in an more meaningful way and have been offering Participation Training for the Cultural and Youth sector over the past two months. The training is progressing well and meeting the aims of the participants and NE-Generation. Evaluations at the end of the sessions and on-line anonymous feedback are very positive and 57 people have taken part across the 4 sessions to date. We have covered Developing as well as Implementing a Youth Participation Strategy.
Coming up in April there is a session on Evaluating a Youth Participation Strategy and in May there is a session on Sustaining a Youth Participation Strategy. To book places on this training please visit - http://negeneration.
NE-Generation has also extended an offer to participants to receive a haf day bespoke, more practical training for their organisations and colleagues.
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On Friday 17th February 2012, 17 young people aged 16-25 gathered in Newcastle City Learning Centre to learn valuable media skills, provided by the ComMediaN (Community Media Network) Project. The day, which began at 11am and ended at 4pm, included workshops focusing on creative photography, video interviewing, video editing and writing for media. The project aims to help young people that have a passion for creative media to develop their skills and provide them with opportunities to use these skills, such as reporting at events and film-making.
ComMediaN is part of the Truth About Youth project, which is the Co-operative Foundation’s three year project in Tyne and Wear, being run in partnership with the Regional Youth Work Unit – North East to challenge and change the widespread negative perception of young people. ComMediaN helps young people develop media skills, such as photography, film making and media writing, to enable them to document and promote the fantastic work that young people are doing throughout the region.
Jamie Mercer, aged 24 and the ComMediaN Development worker said: “I think it has been a very successful event and everyone who has attended will have taken something away from it – and not just the certificate! I have got to thank the volunteers who have really put a lot of time and effort into making the workshops both educational and informative and I think the young people who attended enjoyed being able to create something out of nothing – whether that was a video interview, a trailer for a movie, photos or press releases. We are hopeful that by putting on such a strong array of workshops that we can encourage some of the young attendees to get involved with the project so we can really promote all of the good work that young people are doing in the North East.”
Rachel Byrne, 19 and a media student from Newcastle said:
“I’ve really enjoyed the opportunity to let my media skills grow and I hope to continue to be a part of ComMediaN in the future and practice my new skills”.
To get involved with ComMediaN contact Jamie on jamie@rywu.org.uk or call 01914404410
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On the 14th February Truth About Youth held a swimathon fund raising event at the East End Pool in Newcastle in aid of Breast Cancer Care. The East End Pool provided a lane free of charge to show their support for the event.
Around 25 young people engaged in the fund raiser; some swam and others took to the streets with collection boxes and breast cancer pins to sell. The young people that swam took it in turns to swim in two hour time slots from 7am-6pm swimming breast stroke hence our slogan “Breast Stroke 4 Breast Cancer”. There was also a Just Giving page set up so that people could donate via text or online and our target was £500 of which we have raised £314 with more still to be collected in.
If you wish to donate please click here.
There was a great response from the public in terms of donations and the change of perceptions of young people; Carol Lovejoy Duty Manager said;
“It was great to see so many young people give up their free time to raise money for a good cause; it just shows that there are some very kind and caring young people out there who do a lot for society. We were very happy to help.”
To view the video of the swimathon click here
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Last week (Monday 13th February) Net Assets had it’s first meeting with young people. After two successful meetings with professionals regarding their use of social media young people came together to discuss their views as well as developing plans for how to take the campaign forward. The campaign chosen was Youth Unemployment and interesting discussion was had over the course of the meeting with young people highlighting their top five areas they would like to promote as well as the top five ways in order to do this. A page has been formed on Facebook for other young people to join and share their views and experiences. Join by clicking here
One young person said -
“[The session was] very motivational to the young people and gives us hope that we can do something about the issues.”
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This weekend Five Ring Circus presented the Circadium seeing over 900 people roll up to join in the circus fun. The arches of the Great Hall at Discovery Museum became beautiful backdrop for 2 days of multicoloured circus skills. Five Ring Circus worked with somewhereto_NE to offer free activities to young people of all ages and abilities. From juggling to unicycling and from stilts to the German Wheel, there were lots of opportunities to explore circus in a fun and safe environment. somewhereto_ is a Legacy Trust UK Programme, which aims to provide spaces to young people in order for them to do the things they love doing.
Five Ring Circus, is a collection of youth circus clubs across the region offering young people the chance to learn circus skills and is supported by Let’s Circus and North East Circus Development Trust.
To find out more about the activities they offer head to http://www.fiveringcircus.net/
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‘Introduction to Keyfund’ training qualifies you as a Keyfund Facilitator and a member of a Keyfund network. Once you have attended you can add the Keyfund process to your youth work toolkit to enhance the work that you are already doing with Young People.
The Unit is hosting the training session on 19th March 2012 9.30am – 4.30pm at their offices in Felling, Gateshead. RYWU-NE is the licensee for Keyfund Participate NE.
Keyfund Participate NE is open to young people aged 11 to 25 who live in the North East and are engaged with or wish to be engaged with the Regional Youth Work Unit North East’s designated programmes, which are currently:
Truth About Youth – Challenging and changing the negative perceptions about young people. To engage with this programme a press release must be issued about the Keyfund projects work, illustrating how it has challenged and changed negative perceptions.
North East Youth Network – Providing young people with a voice to influence decisions on issues which affect them.
somewhereto_ – Giving young people the opportunity to access spaces to do the thing they love doing.
NE-Generation – Changing the way young people and the cultural sector work together in the North East.
To book on to this training click - http://www.keyfund.org.uk/training/213/introduction-to-keyfund-training or if you have any questions contact the Unit on 01914404410 or email Michele Deans on mdeansy@yahoo.co.uk.
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