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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 on the 24th & 25th February    

 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

Youth Alliance Mapping Survey

As part of our ambition to develop a Youth Alliance for Wakefield we are keen to capture all of the existing youth provision for 11 – 19 years (up to 25 with SEND) across Wakefield District as of December 2024. Please can you complete the following survey by Monday 6th January 2025 to help us identify the fantastic work that is already happening across the district and to help us to understand areas where there might be gaps in provision. This will help inform the work and strategic direction of the Youth Alliance as it embeds.

The survey is open to VCSE organisations, Businesses, Schools & Colleges, Uniformed groups, Faith groups, Health, Parish & Town Councils, Criminal Justice organisations , Local Authority teams or anyone who offers a service to the specified age group.

 Survey Monkey Link: https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/CVLBN6N

A worrying new report from the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) reveals that nearly half of teenage children who have been in a relationship have experienced violent or controlling behaviours from a partner. 

Based on a survey of 10,000 children aged 13 to 17 across England and Wales, the report examines how boys and girls experience violence. It found that 27% of teens have been in a relationship over the past year, and of those, 49% experience some form of violent or controlling behaviour. 

For further information Click here

We are creating a signposting document that pulls together all the voluntary sector organisations working in the fields of mental health and wellbeing who offer physical activity / moving more activities.

We know the hugely positive impact moving more can have for both physical and mental health, they are inextricably linked.

A Wakefield based research project is happening in March 2025 called SPACES, which works with adults with a severe mental illness diagnosis to move more and adopt more positive lifestyle habits. As part of the 18-week programme participants will be encouraged to find community-based activity options they can continue after the programme ends.

 This is where the resource plays a vital role.

 If you have an activity offer, you’d like including, please send the details below through to Rachel: Rachel.hale@nova-wd.org.uk who is collating the document.

 Organisation name

• A brief description of your organisation & the activity offer
• Activity offer available – days, times, venue, cost etc if stable (long term), alternatively a link to website or social media where details can be found.
• How do people access your offer?
• Photos of what you do.

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

Earlier this year, a skills audit of the Early Help Partnership was undertaken to identify areas of development to support all our work. As some development sessions have now taken place, WFT are repeating this survey to understand how confident you are in those topics, to signpost families to support. They would also like to know if there are any other areas of development you would be interested in knowing more about and how we can best support the delivery of the upcoming sessions.

Please can you share this survey amongst your teams and complete the following survey by close of play Friday 13 December: https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/2M9GVG6

Funding

The Youth Voice – Creative & Active Fund

We would love to hear from you, what ideas do you have to support young people  in your community? Here is your chance…

The Youth Voice – Creative & Active Fund gives young people in Wakefield the opportunity to apply for funding to spend on creative and active opportunities that will benefit other young people and make a real difference to their communities. 

The fund is to support the ideas and activities from young people as part of the youth voice work taking place across the district, particularly in relation to developing and delivering creative and active opportunities for young people. 

• The funding available to young people, aged 11 to 19 years old, or up to 25 with a disability, who live in Wakefield. 
• The fund is totally youth-led. Young people think of the project ideas, write the bids, and run the projects. They are helped by a supporting organisation.

There are 2 streams of funding that are available:

1. Build Our Futures - Each individual application can be for up to £2,000
2. Healthy & Sustainable Communities – this is to support 10 areas - Each area can apply for £1,000, details for this funding pot will be circulated to groups within the 10 priority areas, Public Health have identified.

Please read through the guidance notes and return your application to BuildOurFutures@wakefield.gov.uk 

Guidance Build Our Futures

Application Form

Applications can also be made via a video – please see the attached questions to follow.  Video Application

 The closing date for bids 10^th January 2025.

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

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

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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