Thursday, 23 December 2010
Youth Events by Stars News Team
We have had some great achievements during this year. Pride of place goes to Rebecca Sullivan and Brooke and Carrigan Gristock who represented Wales in the NACYP International Athletics Championships becoming the first from Eastmoors to represent Wales and gain International vests. This year we hope to have a few more.
In the Cardiff Youth Events, we also had a number of successes, singer Ellie Hanson was the Cardiff junior singing champion and dancers Amy Atkinson, Ellie Hanson, Courtney James and Savannah Reed won the junior Cardiff Streetdance and went to the National Finals in Newtown. They were also joined by the junior football team who were Cardiff youth events winners.
In our own talent competition, Savannah Reed (singing) had a standing ovation as she won the junior catagory with dancer James Murphy runner up and Courtney Bush gave the judges ‘shivers’ singing her way to victory with Paige Courtney runner up. Our two teams also done well in the D of E cooking competition as did our pool players with Billy Hall leading the way for the boys and Nicole Davies the girls.
In our presentation awards this year, junior boy of the year was Billy Hall, junior girl Carrigan Gristock and senior boy was Michael Broad with a joint senior girl award going to Courtney Bush and Sophie Lacey. This year there will be a much harder test to choose the winners with so many wonderful young people achieving so much.
A final word of congratulations to Luke Sheppard who followed up last years award of D of E participant of the year with a brilliant achievement of Cardiff Youth Worker of the year. Well done Luke, we are all very proud of you.
In the Cardiff Youth Events, we also had a number of successes, singer Ellie Hanson was the Cardiff junior singing champion and dancers Amy Atkinson, Ellie Hanson, Courtney James and Savannah Reed won the junior Cardiff Streetdance and went to the National Finals in Newtown. They were also joined by the junior football team who were Cardiff youth events winners.
In our own talent competition, Savannah Reed (singing) had a standing ovation as she won the junior catagory with dancer James Murphy runner up and Courtney Bush gave the judges ‘shivers’ singing her way to victory with Paige Courtney runner up. Our two teams also done well in the D of E cooking competition as did our pool players with Billy Hall leading the way for the boys and Nicole Davies the girls.
In our presentation awards this year, junior boy of the year was Billy Hall, junior girl Carrigan Gristock and senior boy was Michael Broad with a joint senior girl award going to Courtney Bush and Sophie Lacey. This year there will be a much harder test to choose the winners with so many wonderful young people achieving so much.
A final word of congratulations to Luke Sheppard who followed up last years award of D of E participant of the year with a brilliant achievement of Cardiff Youth Worker of the year. Well done Luke, we are all very proud of you.
InterACT Project - by Micheal Broad
InterACT is a community project funded by the Citizenship foundation, the project works with young people from different backgrounds and minorities. Their purpose is to create a better community in which they live. The project was run by Eastmoors youth worker Luke Sheppard and Victoria Jones from the ESOL Service. The project started in June and has been going on for sixth months, in the process new friends were created. A news paper entitled ‘InterACT news’ was created. Luke Sheppard one of the project leaders said “I had previously worked with a group of asylum seeker refugees with an ESOL group from the parade and when I was given the opportunity to support local young people working with Asylum seeker refugees together to run their own social action project I jumped at the chance!”
As a group I feel the most important thing InterACT has achieved is allowing us to make friends with different people from different backgrounds, helping us learn of different cultures and learn that people from different countries aren’t as bad as they are made out to be by people from some parts of our community. We also created a newspaper which lets us show the community what us as youths have done to improve our community, we did this to help change the stereotypes that all youths are bad.
We made the news paper in Talgart in Brecon on a brilliant and fun residential. On the Residential we got to go to Llangorse activity centre were we crossed high ropes and experienced the climbing walls. Apart from having lots of funthe point of the residential was to write the InterACT newspaper.
On one day we gathered together and discussed what to write in our newspaper, we decided that the main point was our community, what it has to offer and what we have done for our community. We then wrote drafts of our Articles.
Im glad we got the opputunity to take part in the project and the residential as the people on our trip were from different countries and backgrounds, this meant we got to try different types of food from all over the world.
Our finished newspaper was printed in December and we had a launch party to celebrate!
As a group I feel the most important thing InterACT has achieved is allowing us to make friends with different people from different backgrounds, helping us learn of different cultures and learn that people from different countries aren’t as bad as they are made out to be by people from some parts of our community. We also created a newspaper which lets us show the community what us as youths have done to improve our community, we did this to help change the stereotypes that all youths are bad.
We made the news paper in Talgart in Brecon on a brilliant and fun residential. On the Residential we got to go to Llangorse activity centre were we crossed high ropes and experienced the climbing walls. Apart from having lots of funthe point of the residential was to write the InterACT newspaper.
On one day we gathered together and discussed what to write in our newspaper, we decided that the main point was our community, what it has to offer and what we have done for our community. We then wrote drafts of our Articles.
Im glad we got the opputunity to take part in the project and the residential as the people on our trip were from different countries and backgrounds, this meant we got to try different types of food from all over the world.
Our finished newspaper was printed in December and we had a launch party to celebrate!
Summer Review - Eastmoors hits the parks!
Summer Review
Arson reduction project
Thanks to a £10,000 pound Arson reduction grant in conjunction with Communities First Eastmoors Youth Centre ran six outreach sessions in the local parks. We ran many different workshops with an Arson Reduction message at the core of all the activities. We had face painting, special effects wounds, tee-shirt designing, poster making and football to name just a few of the activities on offer.
We also had visits from the local fire fighters and their fire truck, which were a great hit with the kids and grownups alike. The project was a great success with approximately 60 children and young people attending.
Art in the park
Throughout the summer the young people who attend Adamsdown youth provision were involved in an art project to enhance Helen Park. We had an artist come to work with them to create pottery tiles and wood carvings and at the end of the summer all the work was put on display for the public with a big launch party.
It’s a knockout
This was the end of our summer programme and with Communities First and other agencies we ran a community event the likes of never seen before in the area, with giant inflatablefree face painting, rock climbing and laser tag. Although it rained on and off it didn’t dampen the fun had by both competitors and spectators. The whole event was free to the community who turned out on mass to support the 8 teams that took part. We estimated around 600 spectators turned up to this fantastic event. We hope that we can repeat this event this summer and make it an annual event, but we will need support from all the local community to make this happen.
Arson reduction project
Thanks to a £10,000 pound Arson reduction grant in conjunction with Communities First Eastmoors Youth Centre ran six outreach sessions in the local parks. We ran many different workshops with an Arson Reduction message at the core of all the activities. We had face painting, special effects wounds, tee-shirt designing, poster making and football to name just a few of the activities on offer.
We also had visits from the local fire fighters and their fire truck, which were a great hit with the kids and grownups alike. The project was a great success with approximately 60 children and young people attending.
Art in the park
Throughout the summer the young people who attend Adamsdown youth provision were involved in an art project to enhance Helen Park. We had an artist come to work with them to create pottery tiles and wood carvings and at the end of the summer all the work was put on display for the public with a big launch party.
It’s a knockout
This was the end of our summer programme and with Communities First and other agencies we ran a community event the likes of never seen before in the area, with giant inflatablefree face painting, rock climbing and laser tag. Although it rained on and off it didn’t dampen the fun had by both competitors and spectators. The whole event was free to the community who turned out on mass to support the 8 teams that took part. We estimated around 600 spectators turned up to this fantastic event. We hope that we can repeat this event this summer and make it an annual event, but we will need support from all the local community to make this happen.
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Eastmoors does Europe.
The European Youth in Action programme has completely transformed the youth provisions at Eastmoors, Tremorfa and Adamsdown. The youth in Action 1.2 youth initiatives give young people a real opportunity to develop projects that really interest them. This newspaper is one of those projects that has been provided with a grant that allows them to produce over 1000 copies of the paper every three months for a year.
It has allowed them to go on a group residential for three days prior to the production of each newspaper and has provided the materials and equipment to make this a long last and exciting project. There are also two other exciting youth intitives running, the first is a drama project which will end in ou own production called ‘Gross’ not ‘Grease’ to be performed for the whole community in April with singing and dancing by our brilliant performers. We have another project teaching other young people across not only Cardiff but the rest of Wales, on how to use the brilliant Youth in Action programme.
We are currently waiting on a forth project to develop a great programme aimed at teenage girls.
Another action 1.1 youth exchanges, is also helping to change and shape the lives of young people in Splott, Adamsdown and Tremorfa. Last March a group went to Norway to do snow activities and this January another group will go to Lithuania to learn about mental health and welfare and in February some of our fantastic singers and dancers are going to Latvia for 11 days on a drama project. 14 year old Sophie Lacey , one of the Latvia participants said “ I really can’t wait to go, it looks like a fun experience and educational meeting new people from lots of other countries.”
We have had guests to Eastmoors from as far away as Russia, Bosnia and Serbia to name a few, on a range of projects that have included a study visit, a job shadow, a training course and a feasibility visit and we have much planned for 2011.
It has allowed them to go on a group residential for three days prior to the production of each newspaper and has provided the materials and equipment to make this a long last and exciting project. There are also two other exciting youth intitives running, the first is a drama project which will end in ou own production called ‘Gross’ not ‘Grease’ to be performed for the whole community in April with singing and dancing by our brilliant performers. We have another project teaching other young people across not only Cardiff but the rest of Wales, on how to use the brilliant Youth in Action programme.
We are currently waiting on a forth project to develop a great programme aimed at teenage girls.
Another action 1.1 youth exchanges, is also helping to change and shape the lives of young people in Splott, Adamsdown and Tremorfa. Last March a group went to Norway to do snow activities and this January another group will go to Lithuania to learn about mental health and welfare and in February some of our fantastic singers and dancers are going to Latvia for 11 days on a drama project. 14 year old Sophie Lacey , one of the Latvia participants said “ I really can’t wait to go, it looks like a fun experience and educational meeting new people from lots of other countries.”
We have had guests to Eastmoors from as far away as Russia, Bosnia and Serbia to name a few, on a range of projects that have included a study visit, a job shadow, a training course and a feasibility visit and we have much planned for 2011.
What are the Eastmoors Stars?
The STARS Youth group are a committee of young people from Splott Tremorfa, Adamsdown and Roath aged between 13 and 25 years old who represent the young people of these communities.
We are constituted with their own bank account which allows them to apply for a range of grants that help improve the provisions and activities as well as adding vital resources to the local youth clubs such as hair and beauty materials, reality babies, music equipment and pool tables.
We are currently creating our own newspaper for our youth clubs to let the local community and other young people know what activities are are involved in. We are putting all our articles, videos and pictures on this blog so we can reach a wider audience.
We are constituted with their own bank account which allows them to apply for a range of grants that help improve the provisions and activities as well as adding vital resources to the local youth clubs such as hair and beauty materials, reality babies, music equipment and pool tables.
We are currently creating our own newspaper for our youth clubs to let the local community and other young people know what activities are are involved in. We are putting all our articles, videos and pictures on this blog so we can reach a wider audience.
Tremorfa Youth Club by Chealsa Copp and Alisha Bellsymthe
Tremorfa Youth Club
Tremorfa youth club is the local youth club for the Tremorfa area. The youth club is a good way to get teens of the streets, its open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights from 7:45-9:45pm and the age range is 13-25 year olds. At the moment there is not much equipment, we would like to have more activities to do, and more equipment in the youth club.
The youth club gets a lot of people off the streets at the moment and we know if we can get more money then we would get a lot more young people coming in. It is a friendly place to be and everyone is welcome we have a different range of ages that currently go.
It’s a bit hard to put nice stuff in our youth club because there is a play centre in there in the day and the youngest in there in the day is 5 years of age and they might destroy our property.
We do a lot of activities in the youth club including D of E, baby course, aqua fit, teen fit, Christmas cards, wood burning, arts and crafts and loads of others. Chelsea Copp said "I love going on residential’s its a lot of fun I wish I could go every weekend”. Duke of Edinburgh is a popular activity at Tremorfa, 13 young people completed D of E this year Alisha Bellsmythe said "I completed my D of E it was the best thing I ever done”.
I regularly go to Tremorfa youth club, I find it amazing that we have now got a youth club in our area it keeps me and my friends off the streets and from getting into trouble. It keeps me busy by doing all different activities. The centre is clean and tidy, the young people are easy to talk to. All the youth workers are trust worthy and they are always there if you need them or if you need to talk to.
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