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The online resource for children and young people in Wakefield

www.WF-I Can Emotional Wellbeing Resource for young people.

The website was developed during COVID in response to young people saying they wanted a space with reliable information, we worked with YP, VCSE Public Health and 22 organisations and service areas to develop the site.

We are currently refreshing the website and would like to welcome organisations involved in working with young people to take part. 

Got a question about this? Email: info@ylc.org.uk

Training and Workshops

Young Lives is currently offering a Two-day ASIST training course.

 What is ASIST?

 An accredited two-day, interactive training that prepares professionals to provide suicide first aid interventions.

 Who can attend ASIST?

 Anyone over 16 can learn to use the ASIST model. No previous mental health or suicide prevention experience is necessary.

Attached is further information regarding the course and the expression of interest form.

 https://forms.office.com/e/WaCja7tYbt?origin=lprLink

  ASIST Poster

We are currently taking expressions of interest for the ASIST training programme, find out more about the training via this link scroll to the bottom of the page to register your interest for either your team or individuals.

Know what to do if someone is thinking about suicide by following the easy-to-remember TALK steps - Tell, Ask, Listen, and keep safe.

Alternatively, if you would like to host a SafeTALK session please do let us know via info@ylc.org.uk

The Risk and Resilience Framework - increase confidence in using the framework

  Tuesday 5th February. 09:30 - 15:30 Wakefield One. WF1 2EB   

The session will enable you to increase confidence in using the framework, recognise how it can complement your work, identify and overcome barriers to using it, and share best practices.

Please note that this training is delivered with Public Health, as such your details will be shared with Wakefield Council to book you on the training. 

To book your free place please visit:    www.younglives.net/events/calendar/ 

 News

The Team at Young Lives have recently given our office a new lease of life and have been busy redecorating the office, based at Lightwaves Leisure Centre.  

A huge thank you to our Volunteer Eve Johnson who has produced the art work and to Chris Croxall and Justine Hughes from WDH for linking us in with the Bell Group, who kindly supplied the paint.     

Our Business Operations Manager, Paul Collier will Brave the Shave on Friday 29th November at the Waterloo Inn to help raise funds for Macmillan.    

 To donate and see the before and after pictures  Click here

 CPD sessions and dynamic talks around cultural capital and are open to educators across the district. The Wakefield Curriculum resource that has been co-produced with teachers from the district and has three central themes; Coal Mining, Sculpture and The Local Environment.

Our Year Educators’ Conference: Creativity and Culture in Education 

Early Years & Primary, 8:45am-4:30pm, 5^th December,

at Wakefield Exchange 

A dynamic day dedicated to weaving creativity and cultural understanding into school environments. This full-day professional development even features an inspiring keynote by artist Jason Wilsher-Mills, engaging hands-on workshops launching the Wakefield Curriculum with themes like Coal Mining, Sculpture, and Environment, and a thought-provoking Cultural Capital panel with prominent voices including Professor Abigail Harrison Moore, Susan Coles, Nathan Heath and Kelly Ashton. With the lively Hywel Roberts compering, this conference offers a unique chance to connect with cultural partners and explore Wakefield’s rich heritage. 

Free Admission & Lunch included. Book through:

Our Year Educators' Conference: Celebrating Wakefield’s Creativity and Culture in Education | Wakefield Traded Services 

or contact ouryearschools@wakefield.gov.uk

Our Year Network & Showcase for Secondary Educators 

Secondary Educators, 4pm – 7:30pm, 5^th December 

at Wakefield Exchange 

This event provides secondary educators with an excellent opportunity to connect with local cultural organisations and fellow teachers. Start with a vibrant marketplace, followed by an inspiring showcase highlighting the powerful role of arts and humanities in Wakefield district projects. Enjoy an evening of networking, insightful discussions, and refreshments. Plus, a surprise art installation!

Free Admission & Refreshments included. Book through:

Our Year Network & Showcase for Secondary Educators: Celebrating Wakefield’s Creativity and Culture in Education | Wakefield Traded Services

or contact ouryearschools@wakefield.gov.uk

 Children and Young Peoples Plan 2025- 28

WMDC are currently consulting with children, young people and families about the new Children and Young Peoples Plan 2025- 28.

They want to hear from children of all ages and from all areas of the district.   

Click here : Children and Young People Plan - CYP Survey   

Who's in Charge

Star Bereavement has a ‘jamboard’ feedback forum on the website where anyone can leave a note. This could be positive, something to improve, or anything else Star welcome all feedback so please visit www.starbereavement.org.uk and leave us a post it, doodle or message 😊

The Cost of Living crisis toolkit is accessible digitally or can be used more traditionally and provides comprehensive guidance, activities and resources for youth workers to use with young people

Discover twelve session plans covering various cost of living aspects, empowering young minds to navigate complexities and build resilience

Cost of Living Crisis

Funding

Small Charities Can Apply Soon for Core Funding to Support Young People, Disadvantaged Families, Prisoners

The Woodward Charitable Trust, a grant-making trust, is one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. Twice a year it awards grants to UK registered charities with an annual turnover of less than £200,000 who are making ‘a real difference in their communities and who stand out in the work that they do’.

The funding is for charitable organisations in the UK working in the following areas:

• Children and young people (up to 25 years) who are isolated, at risk of exclusion or involved in antisocial behaviour. This covers gang violence and knife crime, education and mentoring, as well as projects that work to raise self-esteem and employment opportunities and encourage an active involvement in and contribution towards the local community.
• Disadvantaged families. This covers parenting support and guidance, mental health, food poverty, refuges and domestic violence projects.
• Prisoners and ex-offenders and specifically projects that maintain and develop contact with prisoners' families and help with the rehabilitation and resettlement of prisoners and/or ex-offenders after their release.

The majority of an applicant's beneficiaries (more than 50%) must be within at least one of these areas to be eligible.

Although grants of up to £3,000 are available, most grants are for £1,000 or less. The Trustees favour small-scale, locally based initiatives and most grants are only for one year.

The grants are for core costs rather than specific projects and will cover staff salaries, rent, utilities, general office costs, accountancy/audit costs, fundraising, governance and compliance, and costs supporting the core programmes of the organisation.

Applications will be considered from UK registered charities, charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs), community interest companies (CICs) and exempt charities with an annual turnover of less than £200,000.

Organisations may apply for a grant for up to three years in a row, or three times within a five-year period. Once this has been reached they must wait two years before reapplying.

There are two application windows each year with applications usually considered in March and November.

The next round will open for applications on 4 November 2024 and close on 13 December 2024 (noon). 

General Application Guidelines – The Woodward Charitable Trust

Youth Endowment Fund Launches Open Call Funding Round

The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) invites proposals from delivery organisations across England and/or Wales that work to reduce young people’s involvement in violence and are ready for rigorous evaluation.

The aim of this open call is to fund and evaluate projects that will help YEF build strong evidence for practices and approaches in areas where clear gaps exist.

The funding is for projects which are ready for an impact evaluation with an experimental design (ie, randomised control trial) or a quasi-experimental design. 

The funding can be for both the delivery of the intervention and the evaluation itself.

Projects need to primarily support children and young people (aged 10 to 18 years) who are either:

• At risk of crime or violence (‘secondary prevention’), or
• Already affected by violence, offending or exploitation (‘tertiary prevention’).

Projects also need to be working in one of the following sectors:  

• Youth sector
• Children’s services
• Youth Justice
• Policing
• Neighbourhoods
• Health
• Education

YEF is interested in proposals from both:

• Delivery organisations currently delivering an evaluable project, service or intervention.
• Partnerships between delivery organisations and YEF Evaluator panel members.

Applications will be considered from registered charities, companies, statutory bodies and community interest companies (CICs) supporting children and young people in England and/or Wales. 

There is no set grant limit.  Applicants need to provide 20% of delivery costs themselves either through supplementary funding or in-kind provision.  Organisations led by representatives of Black and/or racially minoritised communities who are unable to meet the 20% supplementary and in-kind target should apply as their application will be assessed separately.

There are no deadlines for this open call.

Homepage | Youth Endowment Fund

Young Gamechangers Fund Accepting Applications for 2024 Funding Round

Co-op Foundation, in partnership with Co-op and the #iwill Fund, is offering grants of up to £20,000 for youth-led groups across the UK to support social action projects and activities that create positive social change in their communities through activism, awareness training, campaigning, disrupting and challenging norms, and building co-operation.

Through the Young Gamechangers Fund, funding is available for groups with an annual income of less than £100,000 that can demonstrate that 75% of their leadership are young people aged between 10 and 25, and are committed to building community cohesion, bringing people together, and designing or testing innovative approaches to established challenges.

In this round, priority will be given to applications from young people with experience of:

• The criminal justice system.
• Barriers to accessing education.
• Living in rural/isolated communities.
• Living in coastal towns and communities.
• Seeking asylum, being a refugee.
• Social and financial barriers to accessing opportunities.

There are funding streams for organisations:

• Project grants can be used to cover the costs of a particular programme activity, such as materials and resources, promotion, venue hire, transport, or staff time spent only on the project. Project grants are only available for groups in England.
• Unrestricted flexible grants can be used for costs such as staff salaries, organisational overheads, maintenance of equipment and venues, and other general running costs. Unrestricted grants are available for groups across the UK.

In addition to funding, successful applicants also get access to peer support networks, training and mentoring.

There is a two-stage application process. Groups must first complete an online eligibility checker before being invited to submit a full application.

The deadline to submit to complete the eligibility checker is 4 December 2024.

 £4.5m Young Gamechangers Fund - Co-op Foundation

For further funding opportunities

 Jobs

Spectrum are creating a new lived experience volunteer group.

 We’re looking for a group of people who have experience of accessing a GP practice, sexual health services, substance misuse services and custodial and non-custodial services who would become our Lived Experience experts as part of our Working Together volunteer scheme.

  Here is a link to the website: https://spectrum-cic.org.uk/working-together-volunteer/

Youth Engagement Worker - Potential Secondment Opportunity             Wakefield Council CYP Early Intervention and Prevention is offering a six month secondment opportunity either full time or part time for any Youth Workers currently working in the VCSE sector. 

Contact Darrel Robinson for further information or  click here: Job Description                          

Useful information and Articles

Spice Awareness 

Turning Point Inspiring Recovery & Inspiring Futures Wakefield has developed guidance on Spice awareness, its impact on people, and support for practitioners and people in the community.

Please see the link for further information.

 Support for people over 16

Turning Point Talking Therapies: On Demand Core Service Free Wellbeing Workshops

Charity Insurance - Specialist Advisers to the Third Sector organisations  

https://www.ladbrook.co.uk/

 Free UK Charity Web Hosting

https://www.kualo.co.uk/free-charity-hosting#eligibility

 Wakefield Recovery & Discovery College 

Further information regarding Citizen Coin 

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