The Brizen Young People's Centre and the Gloucestershire Youth Service (GYS) offers:
The Brizen Youth Club - Planned Programme (13 to 19 year old age group)
Apart from all the routine activities and pastimes at the Monday and Wednesday youth club evenings at The Brizen Young People's Centre, the Gloucestershire Youth Service (youth leader Karen Smith) has a planned programmed of events and themes throughout the year.The current programme, from April until June 2010, is as follows:-
Monday, 19th April 2010 - Welcome Back & Project Planning
Wednesday, 21st April 2010 - Cultural Cooking Wk 1 - English St. George's Day
Monday, 26th April 2010 - Pool Tournament
Wednesday, 28th April 2010 - Cultural Cooking Wk 2 - Indian
Monday 3rd May 2010 - Closed: Bank Holiday
Wednesday 5th May 2010 - Cultural Cooking Week 3 - Mexican
Monday, 10th May 2010 - Board Game Mental
Wednesday, 12th May 2010 - Cultural Cooking Wk 4 - Italian
Monday, 17th May 2010 - Cricket/Rounders
Monday, 19th May 2010 - Cultural Cooking Wk 5 - Chinese
Monday, 24th May 2010 - Chat & Chill
Wednesday, 26th May 2010 - Cultural Cooking Wk 6 - French
Monday, 31st May 2010 - Closed: Bank Holiday
Wednesday, 2nd June 2010 - Cultural Cooking Wk 7 - Swedish
Monday 7th June 2010 - Volunteer Week Session
Wednesday 9th June 2010 - Cultural Cooking Week 8 - Caribbean
Monday, 14th June 2010 - Refugee Week Session & Father's Day Cards
Wednesday, 16th June 2010 - Cultural Cooking Wk 9 - Polish
Monday, 21st June 2010 - Bring Your Teddy Bear to Youth Club***
Wednesday, 23rd June 2010 - Cultural Cooking Wk 10 - American
Monday, 28th June 2010 - Deaf Awareness Week - learning sign language
Wednesday, 30th June 2010 - Cultural Cooking Wk 11 - The Best Of !!
***Note: Bring your teddy bear to youth club and pay 50p, and help raise money for the research into children's diseases.
The Brizen Young People are now also developing their own web site: click HERE to visit their site.
The Brizen Youth Club – “LITTER PICK” - Good Friday, 2nd April 2010
And now for something completely different……
The Brizen recreation field that surrounds The Brizen Young Peoples Centre was beginning to look a little untidy and so The Chair of Leckhampton With Warden Hill Parish Council - Paul Ryder & Karen Smith, Project Youth Leader of Gloucestershire Youth Service got together and organised a “Litter Pick” of the “whole field” on Good Friday.
The litter pick also qualified for special ”STARS” :
GYS is currently running a ”STARS” scheme for the young people on an individual basis – each time they earn a “STAR” it is added to their sheet and they can then exchange “STARS” for trips into the countryside, to a theme park, sea fishing trips or other healthy activities.
In atrocious weather conditions - it tipped down with rain all of the time that they were working, 6 young persons and one “not so young person” set about cleaning up ALL of the litter on the site. Using equipment supplied, on loan, from Cheltenham Borough Council Green Open Spaces Department (special thanks to John Rees).
Supervised by Karen & Paul, and with assistance by Committee Member John Heasman, the 7 intrepid “Pickers” (including Committee Member Allan Knight) cleared up a scrap mini-scooter, shopping baskets and over 10 black sacks of waste paper, crisp packets, drinks cartons and bottles/cans. It took them just 2 hours to clean up the area which is used by local residents and dog walkers.
Lots of “STARS” were earned and each young person was given an Easter egg as a token of appreciation for their hard work for the community of Leckhampton With Warden Hill Parish (even the not so young person had one as well!).
