April 17, 2023

Young Bristol's Easter Holiday Provision 2023!

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This Easter Holiday, we saw 2 weeks of Holiday Clubs delivered across Young Bristol’s Community Youth Club's and outdoor activity centre. We worked with new and existing young people, providing them with exciting and enriching new opportunities and provide them with a hot, healthy meals.

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Young Bristol’s Easter Holiday Clubs for 8 – 19 year olds are located in many areas across Bristol. During the holidays, our Community Youth Clubs and Outdoor Activities Team ran sessions both during the day and in the evening. Our team provided young people with activities, free prepared meals and a safe space to have fun! Our programmes had a focus on supporting those who receive free school meals.

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This Easter, Young Bristol saw:

  • 139 young people.
  • 645 contacts with young people.
  • 22 sessions delivered.
  • 4 communities supported.

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This Easter Holiday, our programmes supported children and young people to:

  • Take part in new and exciting opportunities,
  • Learn new skills and increase their confidence,
  • Make new friendships.

It was amazing to offer a wide range of activities for young people to enjoy! Ranging from sports to creative and even some Easter themed activities. Young Bristol also hosted an Interclub Arts Day, for young people across our network to enjoy! Throughout the Easter Holiday, we offered young people a free prepared meal. One of our clubs even finished the week with a BBQ!

Young Bristol would like to thank our staff team, partner organisations and funders for helping to make this Easter one to remember! We would also like to thank the Your Holiday Hub Bristol Programme, supported by Bristol City Council and The Department for Education. This helped support 4 of our Community Youth Clubs over the Easter Half Term.

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March 15, 2024

Our Easter Holiday Clubs 2024!

Join Young Bristol and take part in our FREE Easter Holiday Clubs! We are open to all young people aged 8-19 across various of our Community Youth Clubs. From sporting activities to creative workshops, we have something on offer for everyone! A free hot meal will be provided to all young people.

Our Easter Half Term activities are kindly funded by the Holiday Activity Fund, supported by Bristol City Council, The Department for Education and Your Holiday Hub!

Please find below the current list of dates for our Easter Half term activities:

Ashton Vale Club for Young People

  • Tuesday 2nd April, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
  • Tuesday 9th April, 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Ashton Vale Club for Young People are open to young people aged 8-19, with a focus on those in receipt of free school meals. No booking required, just turn up!

Address: Ashton Vale Club for Young People, Silbury Road, Ashton Vale, BS3 2QE

Hartcliffe Club for Young People

  • Thursday 4th April, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
  • Friday 5th April, 10:00am - 2:00pm
  • Saturday 6th April, 10:00am - 3:00pm - Barber project
  • Monday 8th April, 10:00am - 2:00pm
  • Wednesday 10th April, trip to Crealy (spaces limited)
  • Friday 12th April, 10:00am, 2:00pm

Hartcliffe Club for Young People is open to young people aged 8-19. Booking is required for selected sessions, please attend the club directly for more information and to sign up!

Address: Hartcliffe Club for Young People, Gatehouse Avenue, Hartcliffe, BS13 9AN

The Grove @ Bedminster Down

  • Wednesday 3rd April, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
  • Wednesday 10th April, 5:30pm - 8:30pm

The Grove @ Bedminster Down are open to young people in year groups 6 and 7, with a focus on those in receipt of free school meals. No booking required, just turn up!

Address: The Grove @ Bedminster Down, 27A Cheddar Grove, Bedminster Down, BS13 7EN

To find out more about our Holiday Clubs, click here or contact info@youngbristol.com

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March 6, 2024

Young Bristol's Photography Competition winnner 2024!

We are delighted to announce that Gracie from BS14 Youth Club is the winner of our 2024 photography competition!

Recently, we hosted a photography competition across our Community Youth Club network. Young people from each club were encouraged to take photos in their community to be entered into our competition. The photos were then shortlisted by Club Leader’s and submitted to our judge.

We decided to choose an overall winner from the range of amazing photos young people submitted! The winner of the overall competition was Gracie from BS14 Youth Club! Gracie was awarded with a framed version of the photo she took and an Amazon gift card. Congratulations!

All runners up are due to receive a certificate for their participation in our competition! Thank you to everyone who took part!

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February 16, 2024

Young Bristol's Interclub football 2024!

This February half term, Young Bristol have offered a wide range of activities for all young people to take part in. From sporting to creative activities, we’ve had something for everyone!

This week, we hosted an Interclub football tournament at Avon Youth Club. We invited over 50 young people from across our club network that joined up to compete in the tournament. The day brought together young people from Ashton Vale Club for Young People, Avon Youth Club, BS14 Stockwood Youth Club, Hartcliffe Club for Young People, Sea Mills Boys and Girls Club and The Grove @ Bedminster Down.

The Interclub football tournament began with 11 teams playing 4-5 minute matches in a round robin format. Each game had a large group of supporters cheering them on from the sideline. While the teams were playing, Avon Youth Club had a range of activities for the young people to do while they waited their turn including football practice, pool and basketball!

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January 18, 2024

Young Bristol host 2023 Annual General Meeting

Last night, our corporate partner, Burges Salmon, kindly helped us to host our 2023 Annual General Meeting and Year In Review. The evening was well attended, with over 40 people joining us! Everyone thoroughly enjoyed hearing about our impact and upcoming opportunities.

The evening began by hearing from Young Bristol president, Jonathan Webb. He kindly welcomed everyone and thanked them for attending. Jonathan then kindly introduced Jamie Cameron and Victoria Matthews, Young Bristol Joint Chairs. They outlined the progress we have made with the Young Bristol strategy 2022-25 and the impact we have had across our Community Youth Club network.

Throughout the evening, we heard from Young Bristol’s office staff, who discussed the future plans for Young Bristol in 2024. We heard about some exciting upcoming developments including our new website, Theory of Change and the potential release of a new podcast!

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December 21, 2023

The Grove's annual Christmas Fair!

This week, The Grove @ Bedminster Down hosted their second annual Christmas Fair at Bedminster Down Ex Service Club! Over 150 local residents came through the doors, enjoying all of the stalls and activities we had on offer.

Our stalls ranged from Tarot Card readings, wax melts and food stalls. Everyone was also able to enjoy our range of activities such as; guess the sweets and bottle tombola! We were lucky enough to even be visited by Santa and his elves, who hosted a Grotto to help raise money for The Grove!

To finish off the Christmas Fair, the raffle ticket winners were announced, winning some of the amazing prizes, some of which had been kindly donated by some local businesses! Some of these included: Next, Asda and local food restaurants. Thank you to everyone who donated a raffle prize!

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December 18, 2023

Ashton Vale’s Natwest Thrive Graduation with Marcus Rashford!

Last week, Ashton Vale Club for Young People joined a number of different youth clubs to take part in the final session of NatWest Thrive with Marcus Rashford!

Our first group of young people from Ashton Vale Club for Young People have graduated from the NatWest Thrive programme with Marcus Rashford! This amazing programme has helped young people think about their goals, learn new life skills and develop valuable money habits.

We heard some inspiring words for Luke Vernon, who hosted the NatWest Thrive graduation. He recognised young peoples achievements across the programme, and the group enjoyed virtually interacting across a Zoom call.

The group at Ashton Vale won a signed book after finding the most things around their club starting with the letter "t". They were able to collect 15 items in order to win the prize!

To make it a night to remember, our young people had a pizza party to celebrate in style! All graduates received a backpack filled with exclusive NatWest Thrive goodies in recognition of their achievements and dedication to the programme.

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December 12, 2023

Inspiring the next generation of Engineers!

Over the last few months, we have been working with University of Bristol Engineering and Bristol Composites Institute, to deliver our co-created programme, Discover Composites!

The aim of the programme is to spark curiosity in young people from various hard-to-reach communities across Bristol and inspire the next generation of composite engineers. The programme has been directly ran from our Youth Club On Wheels!

As a result of this programme, the NextCOMP team are working on a "workshop in a box". This will include a range of activities and guidance documents, which can be delivered to young people by non-technical specialists! The team have created the box to be accessible to every environment while still making sure it is interesting.

We hope the "workshop in a box" can be delivered across our Community Youth Clubs and other youth groups across Bristol.

"Working with Young Bristol has been inspiring. I have learnt so much and continue to learn. The most important lesson is that there are plenty of budding composite engineers out there, we just need to find the funds and novel ways to get materials and engineering out into the community."

Richard Trask, Professor

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December 8, 2023

Young Bristol's Christmas Card Winners 2023!

We are delighted to announce that Rosie and Maddison from Sea Mills Boys' and Girls' Club are the winners of our 2023 Christmas Card Competition!

Last month, we hosted a Christmas Card competition across our Community Youth Club network. Young people from each club were encouraged to create a Christmas card design to be entered into our competition. The designs were then shortlisted by Club Leader's and submitted to our judge.

Nick from Olas Art chose the winners from the 15 entries that were shortlisted and submitted. He chose a junior and senior winner from the range of amazing designs young people created!

"I love the colour in these both and they have captured that cheery Christmas spirit. Well done to everyone who took part, and Merry Christmas to you!" Nick, Olas Art

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November 16, 2023

Young Bristol celebrates 10 years of supporting young people into employment!

This week Young Bristol celebrated our Outdoor Employment Programme reaching its tenth year of helping young people to build a positive future into employment.

The Outdoor Employment Programme (formerly known as the Instructor Training Scheme), was first piloted in 2013 and since its launch has helped over 280 young people aged 16 – 25 into employment within the outdoor industry and further education. The entirely free scheme aims to remove the barriers that young people are facing today when accessing employment and training opportunities.

The need for employability focused youth work has only increased over the years. A recent cost of living crisis as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and Ukraine war has had an increased impact on families and young people across the UK. This pressure has been most damaging to young people in already disadvantaged situations, and we are seeing this through the number of young people aged 16 – 17 in Bristol who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET).

Dan, a former trainee on the Outdoor Employment Programme in 2019 said:

"The programme definitely came at the right time as it helped me to experience what it was like to hold down a job. It raised my self confidence!”

The scheme has seen outstanding successes throughout its delivery, with at least 80% of the trainees starting further education, training or employment within a year of their first session. The programme has provided 230 hours of training each year and awarded 750 Instructor and NGB Qualifications to trainees in 10 years, in areas including High Ropes, Archery, Canoeing, and as Outdoor First Aiders.

Not only have trainees gained skills and qualifications, but they have also been provided with volunteering opportunities on Young Bristol’s programmes, allowing them to give back and support other young people on their journey, in-turn breaking down social barriers.

Joshua, a former trainee on the programme in 2013 said:

"It's no exaggeration that the good I've done in this world has stemmed from the opportunity Young Bristol and the programme gave me. At a time when I felt I deserved nothing, they gave me everything!”

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To celebrate the programme’s 10-years of success, on Wednesday 15th November Young Bristol invited past and present trainees, funders, partners and supporters along to an evening of celebrations to highlight the stories of those impacted and the work that the initiative continues to do throughout the city.

The event was kindly hosted by the SS Great Britain Trust who have directly supported over 70 trainees through the Go Aloft! Programme, which has supported around 15,000 people to climb the rigging of the SS Great Britain. Following 9 years of collaboration on the Go Aloft! programme over 98% of those employed through the partnership remain in employment or have moved into full time education – an incredible testament to the programme’s continual success.

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