CYPP Updates and Voluntary Youth Sector e-Briefings
Youth Flintshire Active Communities Team Outreach Roadshow
Our aim is to promote better understanding of all the facets of the community, and all its people regardless of race, faith & age.
By involving the Youth of Flintshire in every-day life, showing them that the community is theirs too, that they can help shape it, make it a better and safer place in which they want to be, we hope to reach this goal.
Working together brings people closer and help them understand each other. This applies to all generations, create respect between them, and make a better place to live in for all.
The Mynydd Isa Field for Youth (MiffY) project and its partners have organised a celebration to commemorate the refurbishment of the Bonc Recreational Area.
This opening event is scheduled to take place on the 15th July 2010, and will see the Duke of Westminster, the Rt. Hon. Lord Barry Jones, President of Flintshire Neighbourhood Watch Association, his wife Lady Janet Jones, High Sheriff of Clwyd, Cllr Owen Thomas, Chair of Flintshire County Council, and many other dignitaries join in the celebration.
A complete list of the attendees at this moment is available here, and details about the day's programme here.
This event took place in Hawarden High School on Tuesday 15th September 2009.
The Y-factor Mobile unit is the final result of a project born from the Views of Young People.
You can find out more about how FNWA went about creating this unit, from its concept to its final result, its main objectives and those who were involved, in our Y-Factor Mobile Concept document.
The aim of the Y-factor Mobile Bus unit is to "engage the Youth of Flintshire, Building Respect, Caring for our Schools & Environment" in several ways:
· To encourage the younger members of the public to play their part, and
· Provide reassurance to residents through building respect between generations.
· Engage young people in helping to reduce arson & criminal damage which specifically target schools, the environment and surrounding neighbourhoods.
External livery with the help of Digital Vinyl Sign
What it was all about
The pupils of Hawarden High School, introducing the Y-Factor
President of FNWA, the Rt. Hon. Lord Barry Jones PC, and Lady Jones
The RT Hon Lord Jones PC, president of Flintshire Neighbourhood Watch Association was present to witness the occasion, along with North-Wales police, members of Parliament and of the Welsh Assembly.
Find out more about it here, see the
photos. The Y-factor Mobile Bus has also made it to YouTube, in an Independent Production by John Butler.
Just click on the video screen below to see it.
This is what Calais Smith, FNWA's Youth Project Administrator, said about this event:
"Flintshire Neighbourhood Watch Association would like to thank you for attending the launch of the Y-Factor Unit.
The turn out on the day was brilliant and feedback was very positive.
A big thank you to Hawarden High School for being the venue for the launch and for the refreshments.
Thank you to the Right Honourable Lord Jones PC for his heartfelt speech.
We hope those of you who attended enjoyed the launch and all of us here at Flintshire Neighbourhood Watch Association look forward to seeing you all soon."
Report
So, great! Now we have a Y-Factor Unit! Ok, what is it for then?
Well, here is an opportunity for you all to find out what the Y-Factor Unit has been doing.
Calais Smith has written a report that shows how the Unit has been used as part of the Arson Small Grants Program during 2009 - 2010.
Read it here, and who knows, you might even see yourself in it!
In the exact spirit of what our new Youth Mobile Unit will try and spread around, the young people of Penyfford, the Pen-Y crew, participated in a Youth & Community initiative supporting SAFER NEIGHBOURS, by getting involved in a project to tackle arson in the area.
Flintshire Neighbourhood Watch Association supported them throughout and we are proud to make available this booklet (in PDF format) which describes their efforts and the results that followed.
We are all affected by our environment, and the Y-factor is doing its part in making it better for all of us. This is why we have set up the Eco Y-Factor.
Do you like a bit - or a lot - of fishing? It's fun, it's time spent with your friends, so it must be time well spent!
Get Hooked On Fishing is coming to Wales, and Allan Ellis, our Youth & Environmental Development Worker, is working hard at setting up this new project in Flintshire.
So whether you are "hooked on fishing" already or want to know more, have a look here. There's information on the project, a survey that you can fill online (and see the results), photos, links to other websites that all have to do with fishing.
You can review the report of activities for 2008 - 2009 that was presented at this year's Annual General Meeting. The complete document is available here.
You can review the report of activities for
