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The work of FYDP is only made possible by our amazing team of volunteers.
Over the past year an incredible 102 people have given their time to help us out – quite simply we couldn’t do it without them. Altogether they have donated 1000 hours of work, which equals 143 working days.
This is an amazing resource, without which we none of our projects would happen – including taking out our bus every Friday, running Farfield Fun youth club, or organising the annual Community Festival.
If you would like to find out more about giving some of your time to help out at FYDP, then we’d love to hear from you.
Get in touch with our Project Co-ordinator Howard Bradley by emailing fydpteam@gmail.com.
FYDP is partnering with Priesthorpe College to work on a new course with 10 young people.
For four hours a week over the next two years they will identify projects that they can get stuck in to in order to help out in their local community.
Plans already include helping to tidy up the local area, planting flowers in gardens and holding outdoor cinema events for local people.
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.
A group of young people who work with FYDP are spearheading an exciting new project – a specially created community radio station.
They are gathering support and raising funding for the scheme, which will aim to serve the people of Farsley by creating original programmes for podcasts and CDs. Once a year they will also look to gain a local radio licence to be able to transmit programmes on the radio over a two week period.
The aim of the station will be to create a space in which everyone in the area can talk about the issues that matter to them in the local community. Who knows – before too long you could hear your voice on the radio!
It’s that time of year again! For one day only Hainsworth Park in Farsley is being transformed into a sun-soaked festival of fun and activities – all for free. This year FYDP have teamed up with I love West Love Leeds to make this year’s Farsley Community Festival bigger and better than ever.
There’ll be loads of stuff for people of all ages to enjoy – all of it delightful, ridiculous and a little bit extraordinary. There’s artist’s sheds and teepees to explore, live music, food from local businesses and fantastic entertainment from some pesky mountain gorillas (don’t bring any bananas), underpant escapology and some intriguing vegetable nannies, who will have you changing nappies on courgettes and bottle feeding baby aubergines.
Plus there’s old-fashioned fete games, free workshops, banana splits, a pamper zone, 5-a-side football, arts and crafts, the Old Smoothie bar, wacky walkabouts and the return of Farsley’s famous beach resort – this time with a full-sized boat!
Join us on Saturday 4 July from 1 – 5pm.
FYDP has been set up to support the young people of Farsley and help make the community a better place. But we haven’t got all the answers. So we want to make sure we keep finding ways of people telling us what’s needed.
One of the new ways we’ve come up with to help them do this is through the group that looks after all the overall direction of where FYDP is heading. We’re therefore very proud to announce that, following his election at the AGM, Ben Harrison will be taking a place on the FYDP Management Committee.
Better known to his friends as “Beanhead” (!), Ben is one of the young people we’ve worked with for the past few years on the Sub bus, and now he’ll be giving his time to help us make sure that we stay responsive to the needs of the young people we work with. Welcome aboard, Ben!
Thursday 2 April sees the launch of Farfield Fun – a new youth club for 8-13 year olds. Farfield Fun has been set up as a partnership between Farsley Farfield Primary School, FYDP and local people who want to see more exciting opportunities for young people in the community.
Howard Bradley, the FYDP Manager, said “This is going to be a brilliant club with loads going on. Each week will be different. Sometimes we’ll focus on sports, sometimes on arts and crafts and each month we’ll set up a cinema – complete with popcorn of course!”
The club will be based at Farsley Farfield Primary School and will run from 6.00 -7.30pm every Thursday.
Please get in touch if you want to find out more about the club. We are also still looking for local parents to get involved.
To contact us call Howard on 0777216211 or Loraine on 0113 2146084.
Saturday, 28 March saw a great afternoon of sport for FYDP young people, workers and volunteers alike.
Five teams fought to become the winners of the first FYDP five-a-side tournament. There was lots of footy skills on show and goals a-plenty during the course of the three hour session at Soccer City. Every team was up for a great game of competitive football – but always with a sense of fair play and enjoyment.
Our winning team was made up of Chris, Steve, Jordan, Isaac and Howard. Well done! We want to say a big thank you to Soccer City who made the tournament possible. We have already had loads of positive feedback from the young people so it looks like this could become a regular event. Watch this space to find out when the next dose of footy fun is planned.
