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Category: Youth Skills

Young people want to take more control of their lives and are shaping a youth service that works for them. We’re investing to make sure this happens – we have even given young people £5k a year for them to decide how to spend it on their community!

Youth Connect South West – Silent Sounds

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Youth Connect South West have reported on their Dragons’ Den project to purchase dj equipment and run an event: Radstock fair- Over the day about 100 people accessed the head phones and two young people monitored the space.  Young people also got to DJ and thought that was fun, it was more focused in the
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Skate Skills

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PARC Skate School CIC Delivers Successful Community Skate Project Thanks to £1,000 Big Local Funding PARC Skate School CIC is proud to announce the successful completion of its Community Skate Sessions in Radstock and Westfield, made possible by a £1,000 grant from Radstock and Westfield Big Local. The funding supported the delivery of inclusive skateboarding
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Fosseway Get Green Fingers

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We received a lovely report from Dragons’ Den 10 winner, Fosseway School: Here is the report for the Dragons Den regarding your donation to Welton Primary School.  Unfortunately, we no longer have the allotment, as it became too logistically challenging for us to manage. We tried to encourage families to attend and explored various ways
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Young people have an upgraded music room!

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One of the winners of our 10th Dragons’ Den, Youth Connect used the money to rennovate their dilapidated music room, for the benefit of young people’s creativity. They’ve been in touch to let us know that it has already had a positive impact on both the young people involved and the wider community. For the
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Silver Band Teaches Young People a Lesson

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What an absolute joy it was to take so many young people with us to the Areas this year! They played a key part in us securing second place and will be coming to the national finals with us this September! This would not have been possible without support for tuition and room hire! Word
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Listening Support Sessions

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Off The Record were one of the winners at our 10th Dragon’s Den and have now completed their project to listen to young people to support their mental health. Here’s their report: Two BCAP trained counsellors delivered 12 weeks of 1:1 50-minute sessions (approx. 96). Young people aged 10 – 25 received a minimum of
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YCSW Positively Blooming

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A really lovely report with some great reflections from Youth Connect South West on their gardening group project, part funded by their Dragons’ Den 9 win:   Age group: 11-19 Young people involved in the project: 27 Number of sessions: 4x2hours dedicated project session with YP, 4x2hours open access session, 2hours weekly with YP June-September,
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Support for Young People

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Off The Record successfully applied to our Small Fund to provide a mental health support service to young people in our community. They’re been running the sessions out of Hope House Centre during 2022/23. Here’s what they have reported:   The introduction of OTR’s listening services in Radstock has evidently met a need amongst local
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Graffiti in Radstock

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Youth Connect South West, with the help of some of their young people, gave a brilliant pitch at our 8th Dragons’ Den, and won a grant of £500 towards a graffiti project, here’s their report…   The youth team at Radstock have been able to offer a summer graffiti project on the hoarding at Radco,
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