| St Christopher's Youth Project |
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 St Christopher's Youth Project works in Holme Wood, South East Bradford. We are based at, and part of St Christopher's Church situated in the centre of the Holme Wood housing estate. We have a strong focus on performing arts, through which we work with young people aged 5 to 18, developing new skills, self esteem, training opportunities and have lots of fun. We also explore the Christian faith with young people in small groups and are working on a new supported housing scheme.
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| Fusion Youth Project |
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Fusion mainly works with young men in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, helping them challenge assumptions and to raise aspirations and self esteem through an open youth group, off site activities and residential outward bound weekends. The demographic of the youth club users gives the project a good insight into the young people’s culture locally, and the project is able to address and challenge attitudes in this group, which is not always easy to reach.
Work with young women has been limited to short health initiatives and to outreach work in schools, but recent Children in Need funding will be used to work with them to develop their own programme to meet their own needs. Again, the focus is
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| Ivy Street Family Centre |
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The Ivy St Centre was started in 1981 to meet some of the needs of children under 5 and their carers in Hoxton, London. This is still the aim today and we as a committee are thrilled to be taking the project into its 26th year.
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| e:merge |
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e:merge is located in the BD4 area of Bradford, West Yorkshire and is here to promote growth and development amongst young people by: assisting young people to find employment; providing education, training and re-training opportunities for young people; promoting education and sports as a gateway to helping young people become life long learners and citizens who make a positive contribution to their community’s.
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| Christ Church Armley Youth Project |
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 We work with young people aged 7-21 in a variety of activities - after school clubs, youth groups, focus groups (one-to-one), mentoring in schools, detached work etc. When I have more time I'll fill this in with lots of detail in the meantime, please contact us if you need any information: 0113 279 6700 / sal.ccayp@btconnect.com / www.ccayp.co.uk
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| St Philip's Youth Outreach |
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St Philip's Church is set at the heart of the West Howe estate, Bournemouth's largest council estate. Outreach youthworker, Chris Harwood, reaches out to young people on the streets enabling them to develop in relationship to themselves (self-esteem), each other (relationship skills), the wider community (social behaviour) and God (spriitual development).
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| Close House projects |
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Close House is an independent charity with an ecumenical Board of Directors, supported by churches within the City of Hereford.
Working with young people aged 13-25 our aim is to support the personal, physical, mental and spiritual development of young people.
A major part of our work is to engage with young people who are socially excluded. To this end we have set up support groups for young people with mental health issues and young people in aftercare (looked after system).
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