Youth Groups

Youth Group



Youth Group


Our youth groups are run by young people for young people. We help children manage the club, facilitate their committee meetings and help them get the resources they need to do the activities they want.

Our youth club provision helps young people build resilience as well as create positive experiences, develop employability and enhance their well-being. We're continually refining the tailored, blended approach of door step engagement, face to face sessions and online delivery to ensure we exceed the expectations of our community.
You can read about our pilot youth club project here.

Autumn 2021

Children want us to remove barriers to accessing employment, raise aspirations, help them build self belief and give them a platform to raise their voice. 

We delivered  an exhibition on experiences of being Deaf at the Science and Media Museum. Children spent months preparing their exhibition poster and developing their oracy skills so they could explaining their experience of being Deaf to the general public and described how their sensory impairment impacts on their lives.

We hired a professional audiologist and conducted demonstration hearing tests using medical grade audiometers and other instruments, which participants got to use. They also had the chance to take ear moulds using medical putty. 



Spring-Summer 2021


Our participants have been focusing on developing their transferable skills and alleviating stress from the lockdown through cooking and craft projects.

These include making models of the covid virus, building robots and cooking.



Why We're Cooking!


Our participants loved cooking, so we're doing more of it.  In addition we are using our cooking activities to build resilience by nurturing skills in self care.  

Through our cooking activities we are generating positive outcomes through individual skill development. This is achieved by enabling children to enhance positive relationships at home, better accessing those support structures that may have been strained by the covid-19 lockdowns. 

As part of our cooking activities we also share resources, which allow those families experiencing financial hardship to meet their basic needs. To be inclusive and ensure people don't feel singled out, we ensure all families have access to high quality ingredients through our food provision. 

For us, being inclusive means we also value the cultural identity of our participants and cooking is a great way to celebrate the diversity of our community. This is also helping us engage and support our participants in conversations about inequality in our society and how they feel about it.

Easter Holiday Cooking Activities 2021


We know that lockdown has increased stress and anxiety in our communities. At the same time, young people told us they wanted to do more activities at home with their families. So, we supported positive family activities through Easter whilst helping young people build resilience and transferable skills.


 As part of this activity, young people planned a menu, researched food hygiene standards and cooking techniques. They worked with us to source ingredients and worked with family members to prepare the meals. They kept a record of what they did and even managed to clean up and wash up after themselves. s

 

International Women's Day 2021


After a year of upheaval and now in the third lockdown, we needed some inspiration. So, we asked our beneficiaries to write about or draw an inspirational female role model. We're delighted with what they came up with.  

Diversity and inclusion are important to us


From March 2021 we will cater for the needs of D/deaf children and those with more complex needs.



Please contact us to enquire about access arrangements. 

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