Things are changing at YPOS

YPOS Drop-in - 4.00 - 5.30 pm at the Pavilion - in term time

This is the time to grab a snack and hang out in a safe and fun space if you’re 10 years old or above.

If you come regularly please get your parents or carers to fill out our consent form. That way we can let you and them know what is going on, contact them in an emergency and return any thing you might leave behind!

Special Interest Groups and Workshops 5.30 - 6.30 at the Pavillion

These will be an opportunity for anyone over 9 years old to learn something new or just share an interest you already have - from Circus Skills … to garden club … to Karaoke … to music club to Lego Club … to Repair and mend workshops. You will have a chance to choose a topic and we will try and find someone to lead it. Your parents will need to fill out our our consent form.

Over the next few weeks our special interests are Circus skills and Making a bird box to go into Craggy woodland.

In the future

Finally, we hope to open the Pavilion from 6.30 to 7.30 pm as a meeting place for older young people. Adults will be at hand but it will be your space to develop. If you’re between 13 and 17 years old drop by and see what is going on and have your say. On the second Friday each month we’ll have to finish at 7 pm.

Holiday and Weekend Activities

Our first event was the Roller Disco. Watch this space for more opportunities.

Contact us at youngpeopleofstaveley@gmail.com or euphoriccircusyt@gmail.com to find out more.

All events are run by Euphoric Circus CIC supported by local volunteers.

It all started when year 6 at Staveley CE Primary school (now in year 8 in secondary school) told the Community Plan Group they wanted a chill out space in the village. This is one of our Action Priorities in the Community Plan.

But where’d we get the money? Staveley Parish Council and SENS (Sustainable Staveley) applied for some money from Westmorland and Furness Climate and Nature Partnership fund. We asked for money to establish a Youth Forum where young people could meet, enjoy themselves and express their views. We were successful.

Then we ran the Pizza Pop up and 38 young people came along and agreed that they needed a chill-out space to meet and connect. As well as giving us loads of other ideas.

Toni, Lizzy, Ruby and Sharon from U-4-X (Euphoric Circus) agreed to help us.

The Friday drop-in was born on 20 September at Staveley Pavillion so we could try and include as many of the young peoples ideas as we could. It includes creative, fun challenges and sporting activities as well as a focus on environmental projects. Danni, from the Cumbria Wildlife Trust is often at the drop-in and showcases some of her work.

Staveley with Ings Parish Council gave us money for two additional drop-ins so we kept going until Christmas.

We are now ready to go forward and have a grant that should pay for youth workers for three whole years from Better Tomorrow’s grant. We also have a year’s funding for hiring the room and paying for some of the refreshments.

We still need young leaders and adults have volunteered to support the drop-in.

THANKS!

We want to make the drop-in even better as we take it forward. We hope to have two groups in the future - one for year 6 to year 8 (11 - 14) and one for year 9 plus (14+)

SOME IDEAS

More plants, Lego, making stress toys, games, activities and sports on the field, speakers for the music, stuff in the woods, park and around the village, skate park, rounders on the field, food activities , comfy seats

and much, much more.

Help

The Better Tomorrows grant provides youth worker (s) to organise and plan and make sure things happen. They will also help run activities during the holidays and at weekends. It will be up to the young people themselves to make the decisions.

Westmorland and Furness Council have provided money for equipment refreshments and consumables.

We need volunteers to help on the day and with admin.

MOST OF ALL we need support from the SVA to ensure that we have a suitable room that we can afford and somewhere to store our stuff.

Staveley with Ings Together (SWIT) are the organising body but we have commissioned Euphoric Circus CIC to run the sessions, supported by volunteers. They are a charitable incorporated organisation that promotes the physical and social-emotional wellbeing of young people aged 5-25, through a range of programmes and projects linking them up with their communities.

Lizzy, Ruby, Toni, Sharon and a number of volunteers are running our YPOS Sessions.