Apr

15

TAY North East’er Challenge

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An Eggcellent success! On Sunday April 15th TAY took groups of young people to Darlington town centre to take part in a day of activities ranging from treasure hunting to challenging negative perceptions of young people.  One of the challenges involved getting a photo taken with a police officer but for one team they nearly had egg on their face as they ended up in the cells at Darlington Police Station. Thankfully, this was part of a challenge and the team ended up getting a photo with four officers and in quite a unique place too!

The young people were encouraged to engage with members of the public to get their views of young people today as well as to raise awareness of Truth About Youth NE’s latest campaign – ‘AGE IS JUST A NUMBER’. The latest campaign is a bid to get rid of the age barrier between the generations and get people of all ages coming together to take part in a range of activities to prove that age is just a number and on the inside we are all the same. The innovative campaign will utilise aspects of social media as well as more physical forms of campaigning such as Flash Mobs, postcard campaigns and petitions.

To keep up to date with the latest news on Truth About Youth NE and ‘AGE IS JUST A NUMBER’ visit www.truthaboutyouth.org.uk or like their Facebook page facebook.com/truthaboutyouthne

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Mar

26

TAY Residential

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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.

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Feb

23

ComMediaN Workshops

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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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Feb

22

Superb Swimathon

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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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Feb

06

Breast Stroke 4 Breast Cancer

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Truth About Youth NE are holding a charity Swimathon this Valentines Day 14th Feb from 7am-6pm. East End Pool (Just off Byker metro)
We are looking for young people to get involved and be part of a swimming team that will raise money for Breast Cancer Care UK.
The day will be split into time slots where smaller teams will complete a number of lengths in a 25metre pool.
Young people are not expected to swim for the whole 11 hours!
If you know any young people that would be interested in taking part please contact Laura Iveson, laura@rywu.org.uk, 0191 4404410
All young people that take part will be given a Goodie in a Hoodie (Hoodie) completely free of charge.

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Feb

06

ComMediaN Workshop Event

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If you are under 25 and would like to pick up or develop media skills then the ComMediaN open day workshop could be for you. ComMediaN will be running 4 workshops including: Creative Photography, Video Interviewing, Video Editing, and Writing for Media.

If you would like to come along to this free event (including lunch) then email jamie@rywu.org.uk with your name and which 2 workshops you want to go to.

The event is being held 17th February at the Newcastle City Learning Centre, West Road, NE4 9LU and will run from 11am – 4pm. If you are attending please arrive 10 minutes before the start of the event. There is free parking at the back of the building or West Road is served by many bus routes.

ComMediaN provides those with an interest in media the opportunity to develop their knowledge and experience benefiting both themselves and the community at large. They cover community-based events and challenge the negative stereotypes of young people by reporting on all of the good work that they do.

For more information email: jamie@rywu.org.uk phone: 0191 440 4410 url: www.truthaboutyouth.org.uk

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Dec

20

The 2nd Annual PoSBOs

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The 2nd annual PoSBO (Positive Social Behaviour Order) Awards were held at the Centre for Life on 15th December where projects and young people from across the North East walked away as winners. Truth About Youth North East hosted the awards to celebrate and recognise the positive achievements of young people in the North East in a celebrity themed ceremony.

Over 100 people attended the awards and saw five finalists crowned as winners in the different categories.The awards were ;

Group Award for Dedication
Group Award for Outstanding Achievement
Group Award for Best Community Contribution
Most Creative & Unique Project
Individual Award for Inspiring Others

Click here to see the winners of the event and learn more about Truth About Youth.

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Dec

07

TAY and Street League football tournament

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Last Tuesday (29th November), over 50 young people and 10 adults took part part in a football tournament, aimed at tackling the negative stereotypes of young people that are not in education, employment or training. A group of 9 young volunteers that are involved in the football charity Street League, including David Douglass, Truth About Youth’s newest member of staff organised the event. The young people gave passionate speeches about their experience of being one of the 1 million young people aged 16 – 25 in the NEET category, then the tournament got underway. Teams included Princes Trust, Cyrenians, Crisis, Turning Point, Ingeus, Wor Hoose and Street League. The overall winners of the tournament were Turning Point, with Princes Trust winning the fair play award. Training providers also turned up on the day, including Tyne Met college, Job Centre Plus and Newcastle City Learning, to offer participants information and advice about training schemes on offer to young people.

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Dec

02

TAY Member sits on National Panel

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Rachel Blair, aged 17 from South Shields has been chosen to represent Truth About Youth – North East on the national steering group for the Truth About Youth project, which is a Co-operative Foundation project. Rachel joins 6 other young people from across the country to give her opinions on the best way to promote the project nationally, to help challenge the widespread negative perceptions of young people.

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Nov

24

Truth About Youth Young Advisors

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On Saturday 10 young people from Truth About Youth were trained as young advisor’s. The training went very well and the group are looking forward to putting their new skills into use. Young Advisor’s will be available to youth proof documents and assess service accessibility. For more information please contact tay@rywu.org.uk

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