Chapeltown Young Peoples Club

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  • Purpose
    In 2003, the Chapeltown Young People’s 10-2 Club applied to West Yorkshire Connexions for a grant towards a series of 3 weekend residentials over a 12-month period, to learn more about Connexions and to reinforce the Club’s efforts to develop young people as youth committee members, and as individuals who could begin to take on some of the voluntary and paid management tasks and responsibilities of running the Club and its projects and programmes, including its Youth Enquiry Service(YES) and it’s development as a Connexions Access Point.

Objectives

The objectives of the 3-residentials were to provide facilitated information and training for the target group on a range of subjects including overviews of the 10-2 Club and YesCyberCafé, the Club’s partners, and current and proposed developments, as well as information and training around voluntary sector organisational management, Connexions, and routes for young people to become Connexions Key Workers and Personal Advisors.
Importantly, an objective of the residential programme was to understand the impact of the positive and negative aspect of the Community on a range of its young people, and gain their views for change.

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Residential Attendance
Leeds Residentials attendees, excluding training facilitators:
  13-16 17-25 Vols* Mgrs Totals
Residential 1 4 6 4 3 17
Residential 2 12 5 4 3 24
Residential 3 3 11 4 3 21
Totals 19 22 12 9 62

  *Volunteering Project Volunteers under 25 years old.

Residential Venues
  Venue Weekend
Residential 1 Herd Farm, North Leeds 30 May - 3 Jun 2003
Residential 2 YMCA, Ulverston 5-7 Dec 2003
Residential 3 Centre Parcs, Nottingham 5-7 Mar 2004

Expectations
Over the 12-month structured individual, group and organisational development period, including the residentials, participants were expected to achieve some of the following:

  • Peer Teambuilding
  • Basic Awareness / Understanding of Connexions / Access Points
  • Role of Connexions Key Workers & Personal Advisors
  • Understanding of 10-2 Club Goals / Projects
  • Understanding of 10-2 Club Management
  • Basic Understanding of Statutory Youth Work
  • Understanding of Youth Enquiry Service(YES)
    Understanding of YesCyber Management & Partner
  • Awareness of Information Systems
  • Urban Youth Awareness Exchange
    Monitoring Success
  • At appropriate times during the life of the development period, young people were monitored using:
  • Individual Learning Plans
  • Group Learning Plans against agreed Outcomes
  • Teambuilding Events Feedback / Evaluations of Facilitators and Participants
  • Feedback / Evaluations of Participant Target Groups
  • Feedback / Evaluations of Programme Supervision Teams
  • Feedback / Evaluations of Workshop / Seminar Facilitators
  • Tangible outcomes accruing to the 10-2 Club, YesCyberCafé, and individual and group participants.

What our young people said about the positive aspects of living in their Community…

  • The people
    What we have to offer
  • Safe community
    Diverse cultures
  • Multi-cultural community
  • YesCyberCafé
    Respect for the elderly
  • Talent
  • Pride
  • Access to a health centre
  • health care
  • restaurants

And the negatives…

  • No lollipop person on Chapeltown Road
  • People do not want to accept change (all age groups)
  • People do not want to move out of their comfort zones
  • Drug selling
  • No community spirit/vibe/togetherness; not enough love
  • Racism – indirect
  • Harassment - racial
  • Police
  • Too many bookies
  • Not enough black owned businesses
  • No clubs for recreation and entertainment
  • Nowhere to go for fun
    Impact
    March 2004 NEW GROUP IN CHAPELTOWN! 9 young people aged 13-19 from the Chapeltown area have come together to form Project7.

The 9 Members group's aims are to:

  • give young people in the area somewhere to go other than on the streets
  • help youths with education and training
  • meet with other young people from other areas
    organise residentials to explore joint projects
  • give advice to young people
    help young people with employment
  • help young people with ambition, goals and potential 

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The Chapeltown Young People's 10-2 Club
Established in 1992, the Chapeltown Young People’s 10-2 Club was formed in response to the acute boredom experienced by young people, particularly black boys and young men in the Chapeltown area, and the lack of social, leisure and vocational facilities to enable and empower them towards positive opportunities and a better future. The Chapeltown Young Peoples 10-2 Club is currently celebrating its 14th anniversary.

YesCyberCafe
YesCyberCafé and its 3-satellites awarded Connexions Access Points!
YES@Palace - YES@MandelaCentre - YES@PrincePhilipCentre

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