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Project News
August newsletter - news of what we have been up to over the summer
Website Development - Our media group has been working hard to produce our own websit. Please take a look and leave us some feedback!!!
Award Winners - The Box Youth Project received a Here to Help Award of £3,000 from Save the Children to improve their youth building. As a result of the work undertaken by our youth group, our project was nominated for an award "in recognition for outstanding services to children.” We won the category and two young people travelled down to the Houses of Parliament in London with a worker to receive the award on behalf of the Box Youth Project. The Save the Children Programme Manager, Roxanne Brown said in her speech" this group has made the biggest contribution to improving the local environment for children and young people living in their community." Our local MP, Fraser Kemp attended the presentation event and congratulated the young people representing the Box Youth Project.
Play Consultation - The Box Youth Project was commissioned by Community & Cultural Services to undertake a consultation with young people regarding the development of play facilities on St Matthew’s Field in Doxford Park. This piece of work has given young people from the area an opportunity to say what type of play/leisure facilities they would like to have in their area. We ran 5 focus groups with 69 young people and we also completed a door-to-door survey with local residents who live in the immediate vicinity of the proposed facilities. Young people will be invited back to comment upon the plans once they have been developed by CCS………WATCH THIS SPACE!!!! |
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Address of Organisation:
The Box Youth Project
Hall Farm Road
Hall Farm
Sunderland SR3 2UY
Telephone No:
0191 5225031
Fax No:
0191 5228460 |
Email Address: |
theboxyouthproject@googlemail.com |
Website Address: |
www.theboxyouthproject.co.uk |
Name of Manager :
Lisa Wilson
(David and Lisa) |
Name of Person responsible for work with Young People:
Melanie Pounder |
Status of Organisation: |
Company Limited by Guarantee
Registered Charity: 1098708 |
Year organisation was
established: |
2002 |
Areas of
Sunderland you
work in: |
Doxford, St Chads and Silksworth Wards |
No. F/T employees |
1 |
No. P/T employees |
10 |
No. Volunteers |
1 |
| Annual Turnover |
£216k |
Funding sources: |
Commissioning contracts with City Council (Youth work, GO4IT), City Council SIB, Connexions, Gentoo, Extended Schools, Trusts and Charities, |
Key partners: |
Children’s Services, Connexions, Farringdon Community Sports College, Gentoo, Extended Schools, Community & Cultural Services |
Mechanisms for Quality
Assurance: |
- Youth
Development Group QA Framework (youth work)
- 14-19
QA Framework (Silver Standard) (educational work)
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Involvement in local / city networks: |
- Trustee
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Sunderland Voluntary Sector Youth Forum
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Nature of work with Young People |
Age range of young
people engaged: |
8-19 years |
Specific target groups: |
- All young people living in the electoral wards of Doxford and St Chad’s.
- Young people who are NEET or at risk of becoming NEET Young
- people who are at risk of exclusion from mainstream education.
- Young parents
- Looked After Young People
- Young people who are involved in or at risk of becoming involved in anti-social behaviour
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Project venues /
locations: |
- Box Youth Project
- Farringdon School
- Jubilee Centre, Farringdon
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Average no. of young people
using the project/week: |
80 |
Core work programme:
- Centre based youth club activities (4 evenings/wk) These sessions incorporate a range of activities that include music, sport, arts activities, drama & media projects etc. The activities offered are changed regularly in response to the changing needs and expectations of the young people.
- Girls work - one evening / week.
- Youth Committee
- SHOWT Drop-in
- Detached youth work (2 evenings / wk)
- Alternative education provision for young people at risk of exclusion from school
- Personal development programmes to support young people who are NEET (not in education, employment or training) to re-engage.
- Weekend and school holiday activity programmes .
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Accredited outcomes
offered: |
- ASDAN Liferoutes
- ASDAN Short Courses
- ASDAN (CoPE)
- Duke of Edinburgh Award
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