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Everybody loves a good meal and a film so come and get yourselves down to The Community cafe’ at Farfield School. From 8pm on Saturday 16th July a lovely meal will be prepared at the community cafe’ at a price of ONLY £10 all of the funds that are raised will be put towards the work of FYDP. There is a limit of 60 places for the lovely prepared meal so call us now on 0113 3200732 or drop us an email at festival@fydp.org.uk. Following the meal at 10pm a 5 meter tall outdoor screen will be showing the smash hit film INCEPTION (Cert 12A) for FREE. We look forward to seeing you all there.
Hi Guys and Girls
So, Farfield fun, an hour and a half on a Thursday evening where FYDP and Farfield primary school work in partnership to give young people a chance to have fun make new friends and learn new things.
They are given a variety of opportunities and choices of activities to engage in. It is a place where they can enjoy life and gain support if necessary.
The young people range from ages 8 – 13 years old
Farfield fun was a fantastic, wonderful and very overwhelming experiece for me to engage in as a lot of my personal passions where covered. I learnt alot from this activity about myself, the career I want to go into and also how schools and communities can work together to strive to provide the young people with an opportunity to build them selves a better life and a better and brighter future.
“One step at a time”
Georgi
Hi guys and gals,
Mojo’s was one of our first projects given to us by Howard Bradley (Project manager).
For 8 weeks on a Wednesday FYDP will be running an exclusive girls club for up to 10 girls between the ages of 15 and 17. It is currently titled mojo’s girls, however we are hoping that once the project begins the girls involved will come up with their own name for the club, to make it more exclusive and specific to them.
The sessions will be held on a Wednesday night 5pm – 7pm starting on Wednesday 16th march 2011 and will be held at mojo’s hair salon in Farsley. This location was chosen for its appeal to young girls alongside its positioning right in the centre of farsley and at the heart of where the young people live.
During this programme we will strive to provide a variety of sessions to build up their confidence, self-esteem, knowledge, social and personal safety awareness, keeping fit and being healthy. Each session will be unique with a variety of activities from making their own fruit cocktails’ and naming them, learning how to do different hair styles to a professional standard and have discussions with the police and fire safety officers.
We want to provide a service which is tailored to each individual therefore the session outlines are only guidelines. All young girls will have an opportunity to change what is included in each session.
We hope mojo’s will be a great success, supporting young girls and allowing them space to make new friends, build their confidence, have fun and learning a variety of life skills.
“One step at a time”
Georgi
FYDP is currently partnering with Priesthorpe Community College to deliver the XL Club – a new course offering young people extra support in getting some qualifications. We spend a day every week with eight young people taking part in an alternative curriculum.
Together we’ve identified projects that they can get stuck in to in order to help out in their local community, including helping to tidy up the local area, making hanging baskets for local people and producing posters giving advice to young people on issues like drugs misuse. At the end of the course the young people involved will gain qualifications that will help them move on as they look towards future employment.
At FYDP we know that moving on in life can be tricky. Changing schools or starting to look for a job can be a stressful time. It is at these points we want to give young people a helping hand. That is why we are starting a new mentoring scheme, that will pair up young people with more experienced members of the community. They will be able to offer support in writing CVs, learning interview techniques and much more.
We first realised this would be an important way to help young people after we spent some time with a young person helping him put together a CV. He has now been employed for a number of months, having been given an interview on the strength of the document we produced. FYDP manager Howard Bradley said
“In the last year we have supported a number of young people into employment and my hope is that this scheme will help us to support more young people in the coming months.”
FYDP will shortly be launching a pilot scheme for the full project. If you think you could be a mentor, then please contact us.
