News, stories & updates

Last week, our Community Youth Club team took part in LGBTQ+ training.

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The LGBTQ+ training was delivered to our staff at Ashton Vale Club for Young People by Off The Record - a mental health social movement for young people aged 11-25.

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During the training, the team looked at the importance of identity and pronouns, initial perceptions when you first meet people and assumptions that could be made. 

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This training was beneficial for our team and helped them to gain confidence when engaging in conversations with young people around this topic. The group even looked at some scenarios and how they would safely and appropriately approach each situation.

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Thank you Off The Record for delivering an amazing session of LGBTQ+ training. It was great for the team to get together and discuss the topic and how they can apply this training in our Community Youth Clubs.

This week, The Grove @ Bedminster Down joined a number of different youth clubs to take part in the final session of NatWest Thrive with Marcus Rashford!

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Our first group of young people this year have graduated from the NatWest Thrive programme with Marcus Rashford! This amazing programme has helped young people at The Grove think about their goals, learn new life skills and develop good money habits.

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

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The team at The Grove won a prize for finding the most things around their club starting with the letter "t". They smashed this activity by finding an outstanding 34 items around the club!

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This was a night to remember for Sennen as she won a Natwest Thrive award. Sennen was nominated for this award for her commitment throughout the Thrive programme. She put in 100% effort into all of the sessions and saw an increase in her financial literacy skills as result of the programme.

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Thank you to NatWest, NYA and Marcus Rashford for hosting the NatWest Thrive programme. This has helped our young people build self-belief and money knowhow, so they feel confident to reach for their dreams!

This week, Young Bristol were delighted to host our Golf Day and Dinner. We invited 40 golfers to Long Ashton Golf Course, to take part in the club's 18-hole course.

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Guests started the day with a bacon roll, hot drink and goody bag! Lots of our teams arrived early, eager to start their day of golf! While teams waited for their tee time, they had the opportunity to network and mingle with other teams. Tee off began from 1:00pm!

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Once teams began to return from the 18-hole course, teams tucked into their choice of dinners. Teams chose from lasagna, Steak and Ale pie or Ham, egg and chips!

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After all our teams had their dinner, we announced the winners of our golf day. The winning team received a bottle of prosecco, golf club covers and a sleeve of YB branded balls. The runners up of the competition won golf club covers and a sleeve of YB branded balls. Third places winners won a sleeve of YB branded balls. Congratulations to our top 3 teams for winning their prizes.

We are delighted to publish this years Impact Report 2022-23. Our Impact report demonstrates the positive impact Young Bristol continue to have on an increasing number of young people, in and around Bristol.

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This years report will be released at our Fundraising Golf Day, Monday 18th September 2023! Our Golf Day is welcoming 10 teams from a range of corporate partners to take part in an 18-hole competition at Long Ashton Golf Club.

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We cannot do this on our own, so I would like to acknowledge the incredible efforts and support offered to us by so many supporters.

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Our key highlights:

• 20,562 contacts with young people.
• 1,489 sessions delivered during 2022-23.
• 1,818 unique individuals supported
• 50 qualifications gained from our Outdoor Employment Programme
• 16 communities supported.

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"The youth club means everything to me, it literally saved me."

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Download our 2022-23 Impact Report

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Read our previous reports here.

As our Summer Holiday Provision coming to an end, we hosted an end of Summer celebration at BS14 Youth Club!

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This week, Young Bristol hosted an Interclub Summer Celebration! We had senior and junior teams from across our club network that joined up to compete in a football tournament. We then went on to host a BBQ in BS14's new wellbeing garden!

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The day brought together young people from Ashton Vale Club for Young People, BS14 Stockwood Youth Club, Hartcliffe Club for Young People and The Grove @ Bedminster Down. Young people even played against a local team of PCSO's.

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We started the morning by getting the teams together at the Stockwood Wanderers ground. A huge thank you to the team at Stockwood Wanderers for letting us use your pitches to host this activity!

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The Interclub football tournament then began with the 9 teams playing each other in a round robin format. Each game had a large group of supporters cheering them on from the sideline. While teams were playing, our other teams practiced their footballing skills on the surrounding pitches.

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After a long day of playing football, we brought everyone together to announce our finalists! The junior finals put Ashton Vale and BS14 head to head. The senior finals had Hartcliffe and The Grove playing against each other. Both our finals resulted in a penalty shoot-out! Tensions were high, with some amazing saves from our goal keepers and some great shots from the young people.

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Presentations

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After two tense penalty shoot outs, Ashton Vale were awarded the junior trophy. Hartcliffe were then awarded the Senior trophy. Congratulations to both teams!

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After the final game was over, we went on to the presentation. The referee gave the winners medals and a trophy! The trophies will be engraved with the winning clubs name and displayed in the club!

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Well done to all of our young people for taking part. We would like to thank all of the teams for showing great sportsmanship and playing so well! It was great to see them interact with young people from different clubs and making new friends.

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To find out more about our Community Youth Clubs, click here!

Young Bristol are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the NCS grant, funding a new community experience programme. This will support young people across Bristol!

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The grant is part of a significant £20 million funding package that NCS Trust have awarded to organisations across England for the delivery of community-based experiences at a local and grassroots level.

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These new experiences will complement NCS’ existing away from home residential offer by providing more opportunities for teenagers to engage in local activities that foster skills development, deepen their understanding of the community, and empower them to contribute positively to its improvement.  The grants will also support organisations that cater to specific groups of young people who may not have participated in previous NCS initiatives.

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In collaboration with the National Youth Agency and StreetGames, NCS assessed more than 400 applications and Young Bristol’s was selected as one of around 100 organisations to receive funding.

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The grant will allow Young Bristol in partnership with Youth Moves, The Robins Foundation and Bath City Foundation to deliver programmes involving young people, allowing them to benefit from a mixture of themed discussion sessions, outdoor activity sessions, physical and creative sessions.

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Young people will master new skills and form strong teams. There will be opportunities to build on teamwork and communication skills whilst doing something inspiring, motivating and fun. Built into each programme participants will be able to design, deliver and reflect on social action projects that help the local community.

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Over the past decade, more than 800,000 young people have benefitted from an NCS experience, dedicating over 18 million hours to community based social action, while gaining invaluable life experiences.

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Want to do something exciting, develop skills and make new friends all in your own locality? To find out more about programmes near you call Young Bristol on 0117 929 2513.

We are delighted to announce that Young Bristol are officially TLT's charity of the year!

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This week, the Young Bristol office team were honoured to attend TLT's Summer Fundraising Quiz. All proceeds raised will be generously donated to supporting young people!

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The quiz kicked off with 3 challenging rounds, including general knowledge, a Bristol related questions and a "how old can I..?" round.

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The groups were then able to take part in a game of "Heads or Tails". Participants competed in guessing whether a flip of a coin resulted in heads or tails. Young Bristol Corporate and Events Lead, Holly, made it to the final rounds.

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The quiz proceeded with an additional 4 rounds. The rest of the quiz consisted of a chocolate round, music round, emoji film round, and a TV round. Tenses were high as teams competed for the first place prize!

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Team Young Bristol finished the quiz in third place out of the 8 teams participating!

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Thank you TLT for putting together an amazing event in aid of Young Bristol. Our staff team really enjoyed taking part in the quiz and meeting the wider team.

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​Find out more about our corporate partners here.

Young Bristol were delighted to host Ashton Vale Club for Young People's grand re-opening, where we invited the local community!

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This week, we officially re-opened Ashton Vale Club for Young People! Local residents, councillors and the Deputy Lord Mayor joined us to tour all our new facilities.

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Young people from Ashton Vales local community were invited to join us and take part in some fun and engaging activities. We had a wide range for the whole family to take part in, from cricket and football to biscuit decorating.

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The Lord Mayor was invited to perform a ribbon-cutting ceremony, symbolising the official reopening of the club! After giving a short speech, the club was officially re-open!

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During the ribbon cutting, we awarded long serving staff at Ashton Vale a Celebration of Service Award. The certificates were given to Julie, ex club leader of Ashton Vale and Charlie, the treasurer of the club.

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Local Councillors Tessa Fitzjohn and Mark Bradshaw, as well as the Lord Mayor, decided to try out our new gym equipment!

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Thank you to everyone that attended Ashton Vales grand re-opening. It was great to see the local community engaging and enjoying the event!

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To find out more about our Community Youth Clubs, click here.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Saul Lowndes Britton, Fundraising Coordinator!

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Saul recently graduated from University of Oxford, studying English and is now studying for a Masters in International Development at University of Bristol. Despite being new to fundraising, Saul has previously gained valuable experience from volunteering for charities in the past. Saul hopes he can integrate his knowledge to help support our fundraising team.

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Saul will also be joining our youth club team. He has actively engaged with young people since the age of 17, volunteering and working at school holiday clubs. He is passionate about equality in youth provision, and making sure all young people’s needs are met.

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We hope you will join us in welcoming Saul to the Young Bristol team.