What would you do with your share of £100,000?
Start a business, fund a dream project, plan an event?
The Stake is a unique, interactive online competition, which enables young people to pitch bright ideas you'd like to become a reality. You must plan and budget for your idea and gain support from your peers. You can also get involved by backing ideas on the site you’d like to win. You back ideas with stakes, which can be earned by completing a series of money related challenges. The Stake includes mentors such as lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox, MP Esther McVey and SBTV founder Jamal Edwards, who all give top tips on how to create and back great ideas.
Who: Anyone aged between 16 and 21 years of age can submit ideas about how they would spend a share of the money, be it a start up business, a new school skate ramp, one-off event – or anything in between. To increase their chances of winning, entrants will need to carry out a series of online challenges including winning public support and setting out financial plans, which show their idea can be a success.
How: There are two ways that young people can take part: you can submit your own idea or by registering as a stakeholder you can have a say in whose idea wins. Stakeholders can increase their voting power by completing fun money challenges, which are based on the Barclays Money Skills programme and designed to build their financial knowledge and skills.
When: The top 20 ideas with the most stakes by 11:59pm on the 23 December will be shortlisted and judged by a panel from Channel 4 Education and Barclays. More info: The Stake
Date for your diary – 
YMCA Foyer / HYPP and practitioners from other agencies are working together to plan a city wide event that will take place on World Homelessness Day 2012 similar to the recent successful Health Housing and Happiness Event. If you’d like to be involved in the planning of this event email Dave McCreedy or Mickey Waters.
Outdoor offers UK Youth's national activity centre, Avon Tyrrell, is offering discounted activity breaks over the winter. If your group needs some leadership training, team bonding or just to have some fun, we can offer considerable winter discounts. Avon Tyrrell is a fully accessible site and has all the facilities and specialised equipment necessary for mixed ability groups. Click here for more information or if you would like to contact them directly Email Kathryn Wentworth to find out about the discounted rates.
Truth About Youth - North East Highly Commended in Children and Young People Now Awards 2011 Truth About Youth North East traveled down to London on Thursday (17th November) to collect their certificate for being highly commended in the Children and Young People Now Awards 2011, for the Volunteering and Youth Participation category. They were just pipped to the post by Youth Voice, from Your Homes Newcastle. This is the second high profile award that TAY have been recognised for in 2011, so they are delighted!
New measures to boost Apprenticeships announced by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills include - the Government will offer employers with up to 50 employees an incentive payment of up to £1,500. Apprenticeship providers will be required to offer training in English and Maths up to the standard of a good GCSE (level 2) for all apprenticeships. More information
VCS hub links schools and groups offering extra-curricular activities ContinYou and their partners, the University of the First Age, QiSS and 4Children, are working with the Department for Education to enable schools to easily find high-quality extra-curricular activities and programmes for their KS1, KS2 or KS3 pupils or their SEN pupils up to age 16.
To achieve this, the Learning Exchange has developed a new database called the VCS Hub which holds the profiles of quality-checked voluntary and community sector organisations offering extra-curricular activities (after-school, holiday clubs etc) to pupils aged 5 – 14 years, and up to 16 for pupils with special needs. On joining the VCS Hub, an organisation becomes a member of the Learning Exchange and can then take advantage of the free resources, support and training they offer. To find out more visit website.
Find out Whos who in youth services by clicking here!
|
Just £167+VAT for a 5 day residential At Weardale House
We strongly believe in offering the very best value for money. That is why we are offering an unbeatable price for bookings 5 day/4night outdoor residential courses in March, April and November 2012 – just £167+VAT.
Why consider Weardale House?
• Highly competitive pricing
• Committed to an outdoor education philosophy… (not just an activity centre)
• Fantastic food
• 20 years of experience
• All staff are multi qualified, with enhanced CRB disclosures
• We recently achieved Sunderland Safeguarding Certificate • In an area of outstanding natural beauty
• With excellent local resources for education and adventure
• AALS licensed
• 68 bed residential centre
• Great onsite facilities
Plus, we’re flexible and can adapt to your needs.
NEW for 2012 In 2011 we re-introduced Mine Exploration to our programmes – this has gone down extremely well with clients. In 2012 we plan to introduce caving. Both caving and mine exploration offer all year round, all weather adventure. Not only that, but every trip underground is an amazing educational experience which can link directly to the science and geology/geography syllabi.
Click here for more information
 The Underground are now offering accredited music courses for young people aged 16-18 years old who have left school and are not currently signed up to any other City of Sunderland college course.
Courses available:
VRQ Level 2 Stewarding at spectator events
NCFE Level 2 Performance through music
NCFE Level 2 event planning
NCFE Level 1 music technology
C+G Level 1 employability & personal development
These qualifications can be gained through practicing and recording music, organising gigs and performing at gigs with full support given from trained youth work staff and college lecturers. Through taking part in VRQ Level 2 stewarding at spectator events you could gain the knowledge and practical skills to gain employment at many different organised events, these could include:
• Metro Arena concerts
• Sunderland Empire
• O2 academy Newcastle
• Stadium of Light (Match day & Concerts)
• Great North Run
• Mouth of the Tyne festival
• Fair grounds (Hoppin’s, Houghton feast)
• Summer music festivals
C+G Level 1 in employability & personal development
• CV building
• Job search
• Interview skills and techniques
We can deliver these courses at your youth project if needed .
Course dates are not yet decided but places are limited so Please email Ricky at theunderground1@live.co.uk or call 07921210989 for more information
Free festive Fun 
‘Tis the season to be jolly and all that, so this month Vanessa Rogers is giving away three FREE seasonal games to add sparkle to your celebrations! Appropriate for young people who celebrate Christmas and those that don’t, these activities offer an opportunity to have fun and get into the festive spirit! To get yours enter the VR Virtual Resource Library by clicking here and download. Whilst you are there why not consider joining the other hundreds of youth workers worldwide and become a member? Taking out an annual subscription from only £49.99 means that you can download as many resources as you like from the 2000+ on offer as often as you like.
To tie in with this month's book offer Vanessa is also offering an exclusive discount on her newly updated ‘Cyberbullying Training’. This can be delivered to professionals, or adapted for young people where it can be developed into a peer education ‘train the trainer’ session. Book this month for only £35 per person! Bookings are for a minimum of 10 people and must be made before 06.01.12, but the training can take place on any weekday up until the end of May 2012. Limited availability so book early to get the most out of this special offer.
To see details of this training, and the NEW Youth Work & Social Networking (offered in partnership with Cariad Marketing)
Strike savings going to good causes
Newcastle City Council has decided to hand over the wages it saves as a result of Wednesday’s national strike to the Newcastle Fund. To find out more visit www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/north-east-news/ or go direct via http://web.digbig.com/5bfdxs
Send your footprint to Downing Street with your message for the Prime Minister!
An opportunity for YOU to celebrate 20 Years of Children’s Rights and push for even more change for children. If you are a child or young person (under 18 years) draw around one of your feet on a piece of card (a cereal box will be ideal), colour it in and/or write a message to the Prime Minister David Cameron telling him why children's rights are important to you.
When you are happy with your footprint, send it to:
Pupil Voice & Participation
England
6 Albion Place
Hartley Wintney
Hook
Hants RG27 8RL
...to arrive no later than Monday 12th December 2011. Your footprint will then be taken to 10 Downing Street on Friday 16th December2011. The photos will be posed the next day on www.ry4c.org.uk! Get creating!
Free online legal advice service for VCS launched by LawWorks. - Re-launched its free online legal advice service Initial Electronic Advice. You can submit legal questions via the website to be answered by volunteer legal advisers. The service is free but you need to register. To find out more visit the website
Do you have a tale to tell via the community sector tales? Urban Forum wants to bring to life the brilliant work that community sector organisations do. They are asking people to send in links to pictures, videos, drawings and speech-based work that are available online. They'll collate them into a social reporting project that will bring this content together in one place. To find out more visit the website
GOTO Meeting 1 year subscription is now available through the CTX programme. THe GOTOmeeting can be used to have meetings with up to 15 people and a host to meet and collaborate securely on the web and on the phone. Click here to find out more |
