As it got closer to Christmas we held a Grotto for the service users with young families like the year before. We gave away a small wrapped gift to each family member and let the parents go into the IT room to pick out a few of the remaining toys we were donated.
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As a Christmas treat, the volunteers decided that they'd like to have a Christmas dinner together. Sadly, not all of them were able to make it in the end, but the ones that could had a blast! The food was great and the company was even better - we're hoping to find a better time or event to host next year so more of them can pop by.
We'd like to give a huge thank you to the Salvation Army and the Freemasons for their generous donations of toys, gifts and chocolates to go towards our service users. It's a fantastic addition to the help we offer at Christmas and they were all so grateful, it'll really help life a weight off their shoulders.
We're grateful to have been able to put together 20+ Christmas Hampers this year for our service users with families in need. The packs included roasties, veg, turkey crown, yorkshire puds, mince pies, gravy, box of chocolates, pigs in blankets and stuffing. Giving them out this early mean that the service users have time to get anything extra that they think they might need for the day, but with a weight lifted off their shoulders that the majority is already available to them. Thank you to our funders for making this possible! And thank you to our lovely volunteer for turning up out of the blue and sticking around to help out for the last hour - it was all done a lot faster with an extra pair of organised hands.
We've been going through healthy relationships in the sessions in the lead up to White Ribbon Day, as well as for the 16 days of activism afterwards. We've discussed gender stereotypes, what the young people would do if they received a negative text from their partners, and had a 'court debate' about healthy relationships with the older boys arguing for and against the points brought up.
They also discussed ways we can be helpful to others as part of White Ribbon, and looked at unhealthy relationships in the media and had the young people think of healthier scenarios. Thank you De La Pole Lodge 1605 and Dave Duffill for the lovely donation of £50 raised from collecting cans. We're also grateful for the huge collection of brand new books that were gifted by your book club to be put towards our Santa's Grotto; we know they'll go down a treat.
Congratulations to our Christmas card competition winners! We're so grateful for all of the help we've had from our service users, the amount of effort put into the funders & supporters cards could be seen in the quality and we'll be proudly sending them off next month. We picked three names from a hat from everyone that pitched in and bought the winners personalised gifts - sadly the young person that won too was too eager to start using her hot chocolate kit that we never had chance to get a photo!
We're celebrating #YouthWorkWeek this year in all of our sessions and across the community as youth work has a positive impact on more than just the young people we see in our sessions. We had our service users answer the questions "Why is youth work important in our community?", "What would it be like without youth work?", and "Why is youth work important to me?" and then recorded some of the answers. We put them together in a compilation so we could see what benefit youth work is bringing our area - or more specifically what benefit has been recognised.
The young people also put a video together that showed off all of the rooms in our building that get used day to day in Youth Work aka every single one!
The lead up to Halloween was a fun one at Network! We had tons of games, snacks and mocktails for the young people and community lot to have a go at.
We were so impressed by the costumes everyone came in we wish we'd done a competition. |
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