Committee: | Full Council |
Date: | 13th November 2024 |
Title of Report: | Youth Work Manager’s Update |
Context: | Brief Update on activities at Network Ryde |
Report Author: | Bex Swan |
We have continued to offer a full and varied provision to young people since we have opened including new sessions that we have not previously been able to offer in our old space. We ran a selection of activities over the October Half Term, including our first Murder Mystery Event, where Cllr May agreed to be our victim.
Sadly, in October one of our volunteers, Lou Croain, sadly died unexpectedly so this has affected both the team and the young people as Lou had volunteered with Network Ryde for nearly 3 years. We held a session, supported by The Youth Trust for the young people to come and talk and offer support where needed. This support has also been offered to the team and we are hosting Lou’s Celebration of Life at the centre on 15th November.
39 sessions delivered
91 individual young people attending 322 times Visit to exhibition at Quay Arts
2 Yes! Creative Beats drumming sessions Young People Bake Off
Bronze DofE Assessed Expedition Macmillan Coffee Morning
31 sessions delivered
82 Individual young people attended 212 times
20 Activities offered:
Murder Mystery, Theatre Trip, Halloween party and themed activities as well as a selection of other sessions.
80 individual young people attended 191 times over half term.
15 reported safeguarding incidents in September 7 reported safeguarding incidents in October
We are looking to hold our Annual Awards on Thursday 12th December at the centre and we hope to award over 20 Bronze Awards so keep eyes peeled for your invite to the event.
We have been successful in gaining £10k for another social action project and this has now started with a new group of young people.
This is a fashion project being run from September – November looking at what youth work means to young people through the medium of fashion. We have 8 young people taking part and there will be a catwalk show on 3rd December.
We have been given some money to run cooking sessions for young people and we have a chef coming in to run three 6 week courses for us starting after half term and running until March 25 and we only have 4 spaces left!