Community Connect Foundation Winter 2024

We will offer a diverse range of activities to engage and inspire young people, including hobby crafts, exercise sessions, arts and crafts, creating cards and decorations, and playing games like musical chairs. Physical activities will feature indoor dodgeball, table tennis, exercise workshops, and other fun fitness challenges.
Our programme will also include issue-focused and target-based workshops, alongside interactive sessions designed to develop skills, build confidence, and provide mentoring and advisory services. These will support young people transitioning from secondary school to further education or apprenticeship opportunities. In addition to creative and physical activities, we’ll incorporate sessions around nutrition, including preparing and enjoying a variety of healthy snacks and planning weekly meals. These sessions aim to build practical skills and encourage healthier eating habits.
Club activities will also address key topics such as mental health, bullying, crime, stress, and online safety. Through discussions and engagement, young people will gain valuable insights while participating in hobby crafts, model-making, multi-sports, and other group interactions.
Our activities will challenge attendees to solve problems independently and collaboratively, promoting critical thinking, teamwork, and social bonding. Every young person will feel included, encouraged to make new friends, and develop their social skills in a supportive environment.
We aim to empower young people to build resilience, strengthen their character, and enjoy personal growth during the programme. Rewards and treats will incentivise participation, ensuring consistent attendance and engagement. To assess the programme’s impact, we’ll collect feedback after each session to understand how participants have improved in areas such as nutrition, food budgeting, and personal development over the holiday period.

We want to offer as many opportunities as possible to the young people, therefore creating an impact and noticing a difference in a young person’s character and skills ability. We want to see young people engage in fun and interactive activities, as its the holiday period, instead of young people sitting at home, we want them to stay active, eat well and be social and engage with their peers, build on their social and character development skills. Our centre is ideally situated to create that environment as we have trained staff and centre provision with all the youth club resources for young people to use and learn whilst having fun and rewarding time at our centre. Our enrichment activities include physical as well as education allowing young people to extend on their capacity and broaden their understanding and knowledge. We want young people to eat well stay fit and healthy, and exercise their mind as well as their body. We will promote healthy eating foods and drinks at the club, create a culturally inclusive food and drink environment. Create positive eating habits. These activities are excellent ways for young people to develop an appreciation for a variety of foods. We will provide a number of issue and target based workshops, provide mentoring sessions and life coaching sessions for young people moving on from primary age to secondary age to young adulthood.

We are community based, most of our young people live in close proximity to the centre, easily accessible and open to all groups. We have trained youth staff who support and encourage young people to build their confidence.

Our community centre is committed to inclusivity, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, or beliefs. We have actively reached out to hard-to-reach individuals, carried out outreach work, and recruited for various projects.

We have trained and experienced youth staff who have many years experience with young people with varying abilities. We have served young people with special needs, some with physical disabilities to and challenging behaviours. Our centre is accessible with accessible toilet facilities and tables and chairs, we also have spare room available for 121 support, space available for extra privacy, staff are well knowledge in signposting and referring to other service providers, such as health and social care, education needs, employment, training, welfare just to name a few. We will carry out assessment on an individual basis considering the additional needs required such as staff awareness and resources availability.

Our service caters to people of all ages, including young people and older adults. We prioritise inclusion and have made efforts to integrate new immigrants into our community. Our staff is trained in different languages and cultures, and we provide diversity training. We have an equal opportunity policy in place and continuously monitor participation, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to take part. Please contact the provider for any further information. Please contact the provider for any additional information.