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We were happy to celebrate Volunteer's Week by dishing out some well deserved cards and gifts to all of our hard working volunteers. They are a great help in the sessions, the shop, the garden, and a lot of our events wouldn't be doable without their support. They're truly the backbone to our project the surrounding community and we hope we can continue to show our appreciation for them over the coming year.
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We spoke to the young people about mental health and participated in some feel good activities for Mental Health Awareness week. Yoga, gardening, ice cream and some time to chat with Youth & Community Workers! The last four months have been full of amazing volunteering opportunities; it's been a pleasure to watch our volunteers thrive in their roles and grow in confidence when tackling the difficulties they struggle with within their roles - whether that's speaking with the public, furthering their gardening skills, tackling the use of the till in the shop, etc. We hope we can continue to support them and provide an encouraging space for development for our volunteers. The community have been busy sprucing up the allotment over the last week or so while the weather has picked up. We can't wait to see what they grow this year and what fantastic ideas they come up with for the space over the summer months!
Although we weren't granted the funding this year, we decided to go ahead and celebrate British Science Week this year regardless! We looked at sports challenges and timing ourselves in the younger sessions; space travel and planets with the girls; learning about dinosaurs a long long time ago & growing up in the toddlers group and doing a few experiments on the side not related to this year's theme: Time, but just for fun. It's been a great week and very successful. We can't wait for next year! It's International School Meals Day so we're going to boast about the fantastic work our campaign group did over the last year to tackle the issue of free school meals!
Our young people wrote to supermarkets for donations to be able to provide meals over the 6 weeks holiday to 59 young people per week. They also worked with Darren from Hull Food Partnership to create their own slogan and poster for their campaign. They met with Emma Hardy MP to discuss the quality of school meals and break times and wrote to local schools to highlight issues families were experiencing around this. We've celebrated World Book Day this year by giving away books as prizes in all of our sessions, having a fortnight long book set/series sale, giving away a book with each purchase in our charity shop, and by promoting reading within the session through interactive team activities! We want our community to have the chance to discover or rediscover the joys of reading and by giving them cheap/free books it gives them an opportunity they may not have had otherwise; given how expensive books can be they're not a priority buy for many.     The youth workers have been doing some brilliant work with young people around LGBTQ+ History Month. |
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Hessle Road Network is a company limited by guarantee (No 04360117) registered in England and Wales and a registered charity (No 1097519). Registered Office : Network Young People’s Centre, 1 Massey Street, Hull HU3 3LA.