Reaching Out: Empowering Young People
Grants awarded up to May 2013
Project
Name
Area
Project Summary
Liberty
Consortium
L/Derry
Phoenix
ADHD
Project
Limited
Based in
Coleraine,
covering Co
Antrim & Co
L/Derry
Ballymena
Family &
Addicts
Support
Group
Ballymena
Forth Spring
Inter
Community
Group
Belfast
The charity is running horticulture training and education programmes for vulnerable
young people aged 15-19 with learning disabilities, giving them the opportunity to
achieve their goals and aspirations when they move into adult life. The project will
improve young people’s skills and education, boost their confidence and self-esteem and
improve their chances of gaining employment.
The charity is running programmes supporting young people with Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), helping them remain in education, achieve their potential
and stay away from anti-social behaviour and crime. The project also works with parents
and teachers to ensure that young people have the support and understanding they need
in school, as well as group and one to one parenting programmes tackling problems such
as managing behaviours and other issues associated with ADHD.
The project will provide support to young people whose lives are affected by drug and
alcohol addiction and their families. It will offer help, advice and a range of activities
and rehabilitation support services for young people involved in crime because of their
own addiction, and young people who have a parent with an addiction. It will also offer
services, support and advice to family members who are dealing with an addiction. The
project will improve young people’s health, fitness and self esteem, offering them
stability and trust in their lives and helping to bring families closer together.
The organisation is located on the Falls/Shankill interface. The project will support 1000
disadvantaged young people from both sides of the community, running a range of
activities, courses and services to help improve their lives and opportunities and build
understanding and tolerance between them. Work will include detached youth work on
the streets, and setting up a young people’s steering group to manage a youth drop in
centre offering a range of education courses and advice on issues such as housing, health,
social services, training and employment.
Grant
Award
£444,264
£499,911
£320,480
£458,578
Include
Youth
Rathbone
Training
Afasic
Mind Wise
New Vision
Based at
centres in
Armagh,
Ballymena,
Belfast,
L/Derry
Belfast
Antrim,
Armagh,
Belfast,
Down,
Fermanagh,
L/Derry
Antrim,
Belfast,
L/Derry
The project will aim to improve the essential skills (literacy, numeracy ICT) and job skills £490,012
of vulnerable and disadvantaged young people involved in their award winning Give and
Take Scheme (GTS). The training, to be delivered at the organisations five centres in
Armagh, Ballymena, Belfast, and L/Derry, will increase the young people’s self-esteem
and confidence, give them an appreciation of learning, and help them gain qualifications
so they can move into training, education or employment.
The project will work with 2000 young people aged 14-20, from disadvantaged parts of £484,938
North and West Belfast and Lisburn, who are Not in Education Employment or Training
(NEET), and are in danger of getting involved in anti-social behaviour and crime. Staff
will carry out detached youth work on the streets to build relationships and trust with
young people, and will then offer them a range of support services, education and
training courses, job advice and personal development programmes covering areas such
drugs, alcohol and suicide and assertiveness.
The organisation will use the grant to improve the lives of hundreds of young people
£382,021
across Northern Ireland who have speech, language and communication needs. The
project will run a range of activities and services to improve the confidence, self-esteem
and social skills of the young people, improving their opportunities in life. The project is
already being run in the South Eastern area, so the funding will be used to expand it
across the rest of Northern Ireland. Project officers will run a range of support services
including monthly youth groups covering areas such as bullying and fears for the future, a
week long summer programme preparing young people as they move from primary to
secondary school and activity days to build friendships.
The organisation will use the grant to work with young people, aged 13-20, who have
£488,683
been detained and charged in police custody but not yet appeared in court to be
sentenced. The NI Appropriate Adult Scheme (NIAAS), which provides support for young
people when they are detained in police custody, will refer young people from custody
suites in L’Derry, Musgrave Street in Belfast and Antrim police station. Project workers
will then offer the young people support services and activities to stop them from
reoffending and help them deal with the issues affecting their lives such as mental ill
health, anxiety and depression.
Northern
Ireland
Association for
the Care and
Resettlement
of Offenders
(NIACRO)
Belfast
MACS
Supporting
Young People
Belfast,
Downpatrick
Opportunity
Youth
Belfast,
L/Derry
The organisation will use the grant to run a mentoring and befriending scheme to improve
the lives of young people aged 13-18 in the Belfast, North Down, Down and Armagh areas
who have offended or are at risk of offending and have been excluded from education. The
project has three elements. A volunteer will work with a young person at risk of offending to
develop a plan of support to help them improve their opportunities and move away from
negative activities such anti-social behaviour, alcohol and drugs. The volunteer will then
get the young person involved in a positive community activity like a sports team or youth
club, or help them get involved in education. And it will also provide support for young
offenders leaving prison, helping them find accommodation, get involved in education and
find a job.
The organisation will use the grant to employ four Trainee Participations Workers to provide
guidance and a range of activities and services to improve the opportunities of vulnerable
young people who are in care, are not involved in education, are involved in anti-social
behaviour, or are dealing with issues such mental ill health, suicide or a family break up.
The Participation Workers, all of whom will also be young people aged 16-20 and have been
in care themselves, will use their own experiences of feeling isolated and vulnerable to
support the young people involved, while their trainee mentor roles will also help them
improve their confidence skills and job opportunities.
The organisation will use the grant to provide support to young people aged 15-21 in greater
Belfast and L/Derry after they leave custody to prevent them from reoffending. The young
person will be matched with a volunteer mentor who will work with them to develop a plan
to help them achieve their goals and aspirations. They will hold counselling sessions where
the young person can talk about their issues and feelings, they will help the young person
find accommodation, they will encourage them to get involved in community activities and
they will help them get involved in education and find employment.
£499,950
£321,278
£500,000
Youthlife
Limited
L’Derry,
Coleraine,
Limavady,
Magherafelt,
Omagh,
Strabane
Voice of Young
People In Care
(VOYPIC)
NI-wide
Youth Concern
Whitehead
Whitehead
The organisation will use the grant to support young people who have experienced a
bereavement or family break-up, are not involved in education, are involved in crime and
antisocial behaviour, are dealing with mental ill health, or are in care. The project will offer
a range of support services and activities that will help the young people involved cope with
their difficulties, as well as improving their health and self esteem, education, social skills
and future opportunities. Part of the grant will be used to set up a Youth Health Cafe at
their premises in Derry City where young people can build friendships and develop their
social skills. After coming along to the cafe they will be encouraged to take part in a range
of services to boost their self-esteem and skills.
The organisation will use the grant to help improve the lives and opportunities of over 1,500
young people in care in Northern Ireland. The project will provide each young person with a
Participation Worker who will work closely with them to find out what their issues are, how
they feel and what their goals are in life. They will then provide a range of support services
and activities to help improve their opportunities including job skills, education courses,
cooking, driving theory and teen parenting. The project will help improve the education and
self-esteem of the young people, giving them the skills and opportunities to make something
of their lives.
The organisation will use part of the funding to continue to run the Genesis Drop-In Centre,
providing a safe place where young people can go to meet friends, stay off the streets and
take part in a range of activities including projects bringing together young and older
people, film making and the groups community radio station Tune FM. They will also use the
grant to fund two detached youth workers who will go out onto the streets to build up
relationships with young people, encouraging them to get involved in programmes addressing
issues such as drugs and sexual health and playing a positive role in their communities.
£490,403
£499,688
£127,882
Shankill
Women’s
Centre
Belfast
Upper
Andersonstown
Community
Forum Ltd
Belfast
HURT (Have
Your
Tomorrow’s)
L/Derry
Rainbow Health
Limited
L/Derry
The community organisation will use the grant to run a project that will improve the
education, self esteem and self worth and job skills of vulnerable young people who are
at risk of or have already dropped out of secondary school. They will expand their ‘Young
People’s Empowerment’ project which up to now has run education and life skills
courses for young people in the Greater Shankill area. They will now be able to offer a
wider range of courses and activities to improve the education and job opportunities of
young people across Belfast, as well as helping young people deal with issues such as
peer pressure, unplanned pregnancies, substance misuse and mental ill health.
The community organisation will use the grant to offer education courses and activities
to isolated and vulnerable young people aged 8-20 in the Andersonstown area who are
not in education or employment and are at risk of getting involved in anti-social
behaviour and crime. The project will offer a range of education and job skills courses
covering topics including essential skills and IT, while they will provide 30 after school
places where young people will get help with homework and literacy and numeracy
skills. They will also provide a wide range of activities aimed at increasing young
people’s self esteem and job opportunities and encouraging them to make positive
choices in their lives such as drama, sports, art workshops and drugs awareness.
The charity will use the grant to provide support at their L’Derry, Limavady and Strabane
centres for vulnerable young people whose lives have been affected by their own or their
families’ alcohol or drug misuse. As well as running a preventative course teaching
young people in local schools about the dangers of drug and alcohol misuse, the project
will run innovative life skills training to help young people dealing with addiction make
better choices in the lives. It was also offer the young people counselling sessions and
complimentary therapies and the chance to improve their education and job
opportunities by gaining community and youth leader qualifications.
The grant is being used to run education courses and personal development programmes
for young people aged 15-20 at its centre. The courses will help increase the self worth,
education and job opportunities of young people who have left school at 16 or younger,
or have dropped out of higher education because of homophobic bullying. While the
personal development programmes will offer counselling and advice to help the young
people deal with feelings such as low self-esteem and self worth. The project will also
run a youth group where young people can meet friends and share experiences and
volunteer peer mentors will also be trained to offer the young people support and
advice.
£499,728
£291,896
£498,820
£155,737
Lurgan Young
Men’s Christian
Association
Lurgan
Monkstown
Amateur Boxing
Club
N’abbey
ADDNI Limited
NI Wide
The grant is being used to run a range of activities, courses and training to improve the
education and job opportunities of young people who have dropped out of school and are
at risk of getting involved in anti-social behaviour and crime. The project will initially
work with the young people to find out what they want to achieve in their lives, and as
they progress they will be offered the chance to take part in workshops covering topics
including personal development, numeracy, literacy and IT, employment support and an
OCN course in youth work. The services offered by the project will help to boost the
young people’s self esteem and self worth and discourage them from moving on to more
serious crime.
The club will use the grant to work with young people in the local area who are not
involved in education, employment or training (NEETs) and are at risk of getting involved
in anti-social behaviour and crime. The project will give the young the chance to be
mentored and coached in sports such as boxing and fitness activities, and it is hoped that
this will then encourage them to get involved in courses and activities that will improve
their education, boost their self esteem and self worth and improve their job
opportunities. Their Kids Gloves scheme will support young people aged 11-16 who have
been referred from local schools in the area, offering homework support and literacy and
numeracy training at local community centre. While the Box Clever scheme will support
young people aged 16-20 who will be offered support to find employment, get IT skills
training and gain qualifications.
The organisation will use the grant to offer a range of support services and courses to
improve the education, self esteem and opportunities of young people with Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) who have dropped out of education, who are
involved in or are at risk of getting involved in crime and young people who are in care.
The project will help isolated young people in Northern Ireland cope with their
disability, manage their behaviour and build their self-esteem and self worth. They will
also give young people who have been through the programme the chance to work as
peer mentors and continue to be involved and offer advice and guidance to other young
people taking part.
£327,551
£377,690
£364,813
NI Youth
Forum
NI Wide
NI Rape Crisis
Association
Western &
Southern
Health
Trusts
Women's Aid
Antrim,
Ballymena,
Carrickfergus,
Larne and
N’abbey
Antrim,
Ballymena,
Carrick,
Larne,
N’abbey
Autism NI
(PAPA)
Belfast
The organisation will use the grant to provide courses and activities to improve the lives
of young people in Northern Ireland who are not in education, employment or training
(NEET). The project will be run in 16 Bytes project centres across Northern Ireland and
will offer a range of activities, courses and services to improve the young people’s
aspirations, feelings of self-worth and relationships with their peers. The young people
will be encouraged to become positive role models in their own communities and will
learn to take part in and offer their opinions and ideas on in decision-making processes,
taking a lead on issues that affect them.
The organisation will use the grant to support vulnerable and isolated young people in
the Western and Southern Health and Social Service Trust areas. The project will work to
increase the self esteem and self worth of young people in or leaving care as well as
teaching them about the dangers of sexual exploitation and where to get help if they
need it, and it will also run education and personal development programmes to teach
parenting skills to teenage parents. It will also provide education courses teaching young
people with learning difficulties how to act in social situations, as well as running a
preventative education programme for young people across the trusts, teaching them
how to use computers and social media appropriately.
The organisation will use the grant to run training programmes, tutoring sessions and
mentoring support at their centres in Antrim, Ballymena, Carrick, Larne and
Newtownabbey for young people a whose experience of domestic violence has caused
them to underachieve at school or leave education. The support services will help to
boost the young people’s self esteem and improve their social skills, teach them about
healthy relationships and provide them with teaching and training so they can return to
education or go on to find jobs.
The organisation will use the funding to run workshops with young people in Belfast with
Autism about social skills, as well as providing a range of opportunities aimed at boosting
their confidence. In addition Autism NI will provide awareness training with a range of
Criminal Justice Agencies. The funding will offer an opportunity to raise awareness of
Autism, work directly with young people with Autism and provide specialist training for
the PSNI in Belfast.
£485,908
£221,076
£499,997
£300,990
The Extern
Organisation
Limited
Belfast
Youth
Initiatives
Belfast
The Prince’s
Trust
Belfast,
Craigavon,
Newry &
Mourne
Young Men’s
Christian
Association
(Lisburn) Ltd
Lisburn
The organisation will use the grant to provide support services for young people and
their carers involved in its kinship placements programme, an initiative in which a family
member takes responsibility to foster a young person rather than a stranger. The project
will run a range of services for both the young person being fostered and their family
carers to help build trusts and relationships, offer counselling, advice and guidance, and
help to prevent the placements from breaking down. They will also get the chance to
take part in respite and family activities where they can meet other young people and
carers going through similar situations.
The organisation will use the grant to run a range of activities and courses aimed at
preventing young people in west Belfast and east Belfast from dropping out of education
and getting involved in antisocial behaviour and crime. Youth workers from the project
will go out on to the streets to encourage young people to get involved in social
activities at community venues in Belfast, and they will also visit local schools to
encourage young people to take part. Once the young people are involved in the project
they will be offered the opportunity to take part in programmes aimed at encouraging
them to stay in education, improve their qualifications and make the right choices in
life.
The organisation will use the grant to run a wide range of training and mentoring courses
to improve the self esteem, confidence, education and job opportunities of young
people in Belfast, Craigavon and Newry who have been involved in crime, are leaving
care or are not involved in education. As well as practical course related activities such
as IT, film and animation, the young people will explore issues affecting their lives such
as drugs and alcohol, sexual health and emotional well-being.
The organisation will use the grant to give young people who have been involved in
crime and anti-social behaviour or are not involved in education the opportunity to plan,
develop, manage and maintain a 600 square foot allotment site in the Whitemountain
area of Lisburn. As well as working on the allotment, the young people will also get the
chance to take part in a range of courses to improve their confidence, education and job
opportunities including courses covering horticulture, leadership and budgeting, and
practical skills such as organising tools and equipment, lawn mowing and making flower
beds and baskets.
£494,911
£436,194
£484,319
£498,700
The Advantage
Foundation
Limited
Newry and
Mourne
Co-Operative
Limited
NI-wide
Armagh,
Banbridge
Newry &
Mourne
Oasis Caring in
Action
Antrim
Headliners (UK)
Belfast,
Derry’
Limavady,
Strabane
The organisation will use the grant to run education and employment training
programmes for young people in Hydebank Wood Young Offenders’ Centre, boosting
their self esteem and giving them the skills, confidence and work experience to find jobs
after their release. The project will include employability training programmes, talks
from role models who have gone through similar experiences and meet the employer
workshops. They also plan to get the young people involved in two social enterprise
businesses to teach them key business skills such as value for money, dealing with
customers and providing quality products.
The organisation will use the grant to run the Work4Uplus programme which will run a
range of training and support services for vulnerable and isolated young people aged 1418 in disadvantaged areas of Newry and Mourne, Banbridge and Armagh who are not
involved in education or training and are at risk of turning to anti-social behaviour or
criminal activity. Services and activities offered to the young people involved will
include pre-employment training, mentoring support, social activities and personal
development courses.
The organisation will use the grant to develop a programme in its premises at 10d High
Street Antrim to support young people, aged 14-16, disengaged in education. The centre
will run a resilience programme for young people aged 14-16 that will include outdoor
activities and team building, a structured education timetable, personal development
courses, a job and training programme that includes work experience and drug and
alcohol awareness classes. The centre will also develop a Youth Forum where the young
people involved can have their say on the issues affecting their lives and help to develop
and improve the support they are given.
The organisation will use the grant to run the Voices for Change project which will work
with young people in the Limavady, Strabane, L/Derry and Belfast areas who are not
involved in education or training, who are in or are leaving care, or have been involved
in anti-social behaviour or crime. The young people involved will take part in creative
journalism and media projects where they will work in groups to create a written
article, radio report, film or set of photographs on the issues affecting their lives. The
project will help the young people tell their story and share their opinions, learn new
skills and improve their lives by returning to education, getting involved in further
training or volunteering or finding a job.
£491,441
£498,650
£499,976
£499,610
Business in the
Community
Headway
Belfast
Off The Street
Community
Youth Initiative
The Royal
National
Institute of
Blind People
Belfast,
Down,
Lisburn,
Newtowna
rds, North
Down
Belfast,
Lisburn,
Newtowna
rds
Derry
NI-wide
The organisation’s Aiming Higher project will provide mentoring support and work
experience opportunities for young people aged 16-20 in the South Eastern Health Trust
area – which includes the Down area – and the Belfast Health Trust area. The project will
recruit and train business mentors who will be matched with a young person and provide
them with support and training. The young people involved will also have the
opportunity to gain work experience with local companies.
The organisation will use the grant to run its Younger Person’s Network project, the first
programme of its kind in Northern Ireland to provide specialist support services to
improve the lives and opportunities of young people aged between 16 and 20 living with
acquired brain injury (ABI). The project, which will support young people from the
Newtownards, Lisburn and Belfast areas, will run a personal development programme for
each young person involved. The young person will meet one-to-one with a clinical
psychologist and take part in group activities and life skills training in local community
venues that will include outdoor sports and activities, communication skills,
relationships, healthy lifestyles, substance misuse, personal finances, independent
living, IT and digital media and physiotherapy.
The organisation will use the grant to continue to expand the support services and
activities it runs for young people in the local area. The new S'UP (Support Under
Pressure) project will run support programmes aimed at improving the lives of young
people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET), and those involved in
anti-social behaviour and crime. The project will develop three annual programmes.
Young people involved in anti social or crime will be offered activities including outdoor
challenges and personal development programmes. Young people with poor literacy and
numeracy skills will be supported to develop their Maths and English, and young people
who have dropped out of education will take part in an education and mentoring
programme at St Brigid's College, Carnhill.
The organisation will use the grant to run the Realise project which will improve the
education and job opportunities of young people in Northern Ireland who are blind and
partially sighted. The projects will provide a range of support services for blind and
partially sighted young people aged eight to 20 including courses in confidence building
and assertiveness, support with job searches and application forms, ICT training, a Duke
of Edinburgh scheme and training in using assistive technology such as computer
software that writes what a person says.
£188,400
£495,559
£499,830
£493,465
Greenlight
Gateway
Ballymena
Ballymony
Coleraine
and Moyle
The Terry
Enright
Foundation
Belfast
Causeway Rural
& Urban
Network
Coleraine
Laurencetown,
Lenaderg and
Tullylish
Community
Association
Craigavon
The organisation, based in Ballycastle, will use the grant to run support services and
£497,838
activities for vulnerable young people aged 12-20 with learning difficulties or special
educational needs in the Ballymoney and Moyle, Ballymena and Coleraine areas who are
not in education, employment or training (NEET) or are at risk of becoming NEET. The
project will run a range of services aimed at giving the young people the confidence,
skills and qualifications they need to make the move from school into jobs and adult life
including homework clubs, work experience, advice groups, art, music and movie
programmes and catering and food hygiene training.
The charity will use the grant to work with isolated young people in interface £213,985
communities across Belfast who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) and
are at risk of getting involved in anti social behaviour or crime. The project will offer
young people a range of services and activities at community venues throughout Belfast
including personal development, peer mentoring, programmes like conflict resolution
and citzenship, outdoor education and careers advice, informal education programmes,
workshops and weekend residentials, the project will increase young people's
confidence, knowledge and skills.
The organisation will use the grant to run services and activities aimed at supporting £495,343
vulnerable young people, aged 12-17, in the Coleraine, Portstewart and Portrush areas
who are not involved in education, employment or training (NEET) and are involved in,
or at risk of getting involved in, anti-social behaviour or crime. Youth workers from the
project will go out to areas where support is needed, approach young people and build
trust with them, then encourage them to get involved in training and activities at the
organisation’s centre in Coleraine including youth and IT qualifications, alcohol and drug
awareness courses and job skills and interview technique training.
The organisation wuill use the grant to run a range of support services and activities to
£387,008
support young people in the Craigavon and Banbridge areas who are not involved in
education, employment or training (NEET) and are involved in, or at risk of getting
involved in, anti-social behaviour and crime. They will also offer training and activities
for local young people who have Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and have dropped out
of school because of their condition. For isolated young people they will run a youth
club, a community radio station and a gardening project to tidy up neighbourhoods,
careers and arts workshops and job skills, and for young people with ASD they will offer
social nights and arts projects, independent living skills, money management and digital
photography.
The Resurgam
Community
Development
Trust Limited
Lisburn
The organisation will use the grant to offer work experience, training opportunities and
services for young people in the Old Warren, Hillhall, Tonagh, Hilden and Ballymacross
areas who are not involved in education, employment or training (NEET) and are
involved in, or at risk of getting involved in, anti-social behaviour and crime.
The project will offer 12 trainee positions, lasting two to three years each, for young
people at six social enterprise businesses in the local area where they will be able to
gain work experience and complete NVQ qualifications. It will also run 12-week
programmes where young people can take part in work placements and taster sessions
covering practical jobs such as plumbing, bricklaying, joinery, and skills training covering
areas such as hygiene, money management and hospitality.
£480,670
Family Care
Society
NI wide
The organisation will sue the grant to run its ‘Life Story Project’ which will help
vulnerable young people across Northern Ireland, aged 8-20, who are in care, leaving
care or have been in care, to map their lives from birth to present. The young people
involved will create a written story in which they will explain the reasons for the moves
they have made and give information about their families. The book will help them
understand what they have been through, teach them about where they came from and
encourage them to open about their feelings and the changes in the lives.
£500,000
The Fostering
Network
NI wide
The organisation will use the grant to run a range of services and activities to support
young people aged 8-20 in foster care across Northern Ireland cope with changes in their
lives such as moving into foster care and then on into adult life and becoming
independent. The project will also support foster and kinship carers by running through
residential and group activities where they can share information and learn the skills
they need to support the young people they are looking after. The project will provide
activities such as a training and personal development programme, one-to-one support
and small group work, training programmes and qualifications, residential and peer
mentoring.
£391,789
Breakthru
Armagh,
Dunganno
n,
Fermanag
h, Omagh
Ardoyne Youth
Club
Belfast
Colin Glen
Trust
Belfast,
Lisburn
The organisation will use the grant to support young people in the Dungannon, Armagh,
Omagh and Fermanagh areas who are in care or have been in care because their parents
have misused substances such as drugs and alcohol. The project is running support
services to help the young people involved to develop coping skills and prevent them
from misusing substances themselves or getting involved in antisocial behaviour or
crime. Support will include group sessions and education programmes for young people
in care covering areas such as positive mental health and drug and alcohol education and
one-to-one counselling sessions to boost the young people’s self esteem and confidence.
Awareness sessions will be run in local schools for young people aged 10 to 13 and there
will be training for teachers and childcare staff.
The organisation will use the grant to run support services and activities for young
people who are at risk of getting involved in criminal activity in a number of interface
areas including Ardoyne, Oldpark and Cliftonville. Youth workers from the project will go
out onto the streets to encourage young people to come along to the youth club, on
Ardoyne’s Flax Street, to take part in a number of courses and activities to improve their
education, boost their mental health, confidence and self esteem, teach them skills and
help them find jobs. As well as running courses and activities, the project will also start
up a social enterprise in the youth club – a gym where the young people can get jobs and
gain the skills needed to find jobs.
The organisation will use the grant to run support services and activities in the forest
park to improve the opportunities of isolated young people who are involved in antisocial and criminal behaviour in the Colin Glen and surrounding areas of Greater Belfast
and Lisburn. A range of activities in the park are planned to improve the young people’s
skills, boost their self esteem and qualifications and help them find jobs including sports
coaching, fitness instructor awards, youth work and an outdoor activity instructor
course. There are also plans for midnight soccer, multi-skills and volunteer programmes,
workshops in drug, alcohol and suicide awareness and circuit training. Once they have
gained qualifications, the young people will be encouraged to start a social enterprise
activity club.
£485,862
£469,845
£491,122
Foyle Women’s
Aid
Derry~Lon
donderry,
Limavady,
Strabane
Leonard
Cheshire
Disability
Derry~Lon
donderry,
Fermanag
h, Omagh,
Strabane,
Lettershandone
y & District
Development
Group
Derry~Lon
donderry
The organisation will use the grant to run support services and counselling programmes
for young people in the L/Derry, Strabane and Limavady areas who have experienced
domestic violence. The project will help young people cope with their experiences and
help prevent them from becoming violent themselves, or getting involved in high risk
behaviour such as anti-social behaviour, alcohol and drugs and crime. Working with local
partners, they will run group and one-to-one support sessions in their local venue
Ashleywood House. Courses planned include anger management, confidence building,
healthy relationships and building resilience. And we’re also planning social and peer
activities to encourage the young people to mix together and boost their self esteem.
The organisation will use the grant to support young people aged 14-19 with a physical,
mental health or learning disability in the Omagh Enniskillen, Strabane, and L/Derry
areas. The organisation will tackle issues such as isolation and social exclusion to give
young disabled people greater independence and increase their opportunities for
education, employment, volunteering, mentoring and personal development. It will also
support young people not in education, employment or training. Activities planned will
include one to one and group support sessions, accredited courses, motivational speakers
and the encouragement of entrepreneurial skills for self-employment. There will also be
social activities and team building exercises, as well as volunteering opportunities.
The organisation will use the grant to run support services and activities for isolated
young people in the Lettershandoney, Caw, Eglinton, Maydown, Strathfoyle and
Newbuildings areas of L/Derry who have been, or are deemed ‘at risk’ of, being involved
in anti-social behaviour, civil disturbance or low level crime, or who have dropped out of
education. A range of activities are planned including education and training courses,
drugs and alcohol awareness sessions, job and social skills theatre, dance, music and
outdoor sports. They will also run Duke of Edinburgh Award and Millennium Volunteer
Award schemes and a Youth Forum will be set up where the young people involved in the
project can have their say on the activities being run.
£500,000
£485,677
£499,979
Rosemount and
District Welfare
Rights Group
Derry~Lon
donderry
The organisation will use the grant to continue to expand the support services and
activities it currently runs, working with young people who are at risk of becoming or are
involved in criminal and anti-social behaviour. The project will create support and safety
plans in collaboration with young people and provide weekly street outreach
programmes in different locations across the city. A core life and work skills programme
will also be developed and will include; communication skills, capacity building, mental
health, alcohol/drug awareness and anger management.
£499,666
British Deaf
Association
Across NI
£348,934
CLIC Sargent
Cancer Care for
Children
Across NI
The organisation will use the grant to run support services and activities to improve the
mental health, confidence and education opportunities of young deaf people aged 8-20
who have dropped out of education or are at risk of dropping out. The project will
support young deaf people in mainstream schools across Northern Ireland and
Jordanstown School for the Deaf and those young people who are moving from primary
to secondary school. Support services will include information sessions in venues such as
youth centres and deaf clubs, transition programmes focusing on building confidence and
coping skills, CV preparation and interview techniques, training weekends, cultural
awareness courses and Break the Barriers training to raise awareness among peers and
professionals.
The organisation will use the grant to support young people aged 16 to 20 who are going
through cancer treatment with the moves between hospital based care and their own
community. The project will also support young people with cancer to stay engaged with
education and training, something that can be very challenging during treatment. The
young people will be involved in individual and group activities, social activities and will
be offered one to one support in their local, often rural, communities. Activities run will
focus on issues such as body image, social interaction and activities, alcohol and drug
awareness, fatigue management and support to return to education, training and
employment.
£363,646
Reconciliation
Education and
Community
Training
Armagh
The grant is being used to run a new three-year support and training project for young
people at risk of getting involved in the criminal justice system and who are disengaged
from the community or from education. A range of programmes will be developed
which will support the young people in finding jobs and employment. One-to-one
mentoring will also be offered. The group will also be extending their existing Drop-In
facility, which is currently opened two evenings per week. The young people will also
take part in community projects including community clean ups, litter picks, painting
over graffiti hot spot areas and helping older people with gardening duties.
£292,917
Northern
Ireland
Alternatives Ltd
Belfast
The project will be delivered through a partnership led by Northern Ireland Alternatives
Ltd including Challenge for Youth and Community Restorative Justice Ireland. A range of
support services, programme and activities will be run for young people who are
involved in or who have had contact with the care and justice systems, and those who
are not currently in any form of education or training. Areas of support will include
skills development, physical and mental health, relationships, offending behaviour, drug
and substance misuse, accommodation and poverty. Parents and siblings will also be
involved and offered a range of support services to encourage collective family change
and problem solving. A six month plan for each young person will be developed.
£493,998
Rosario Youth
Centre
Belfast
The grant is being used to develop the 'Real Deal Programme', providing personal
development, support and education to young people aged 16 to 19 who are not in
education training or employment. The south Belfast project will target young people
mainly from Ballynafeigh, Rosetta, Shaftsbury and Botanic. The project will develop
support services and activities to address a number of issues affecting young people who
are at risk of getting involved in criminal activity and anti social behaviour. This
includes personal development plans and activities and accredited programmes covering,
mental and physical health, drug and alcohol misuse, confidence and self esteem,
parenthood, communication and resilience. The organisation will extend existing hours
of their drop-in facility, offering young people a safe and secure environment to socialise
and be kept of the streets.
£170,904
Action on
Substances
through
Community
Education and
Related
Training
Belfast
and
Newtowna
rds
The ‘Family Therapy Service - reducing the risk of offending’ project will support young
people aged 8-17 who have been identified as having multiple risk factors which may
lead to them engaging in criminal activity. The catchment area will also include Lisburn,
Down and North Down. The project will address the risk factors that lead young people
to engage in criminal activity through family therapy. A group of young people who have
taken part in the project will promote the services, share experiences and feed into the
evaluation of the project, for example producing a DVD to help communicate the
benefits of the project to other young people.
£482,927
Contact
(Northern
Ireland)
Northern
Trust area
Contact’s ‘Aggression Related Trauma - Recovery for Youth’ project will support children
and young people, aged 8-20 who are disengaged from education and/or leaving the care
system, and are at risk of engaging in criminal activity as a direct consequence of their
experience of aggression related trauma. Those who suffer this type of trauma can
experience low self esteem and mental health problems. The project will build their
coping strategies and confidence and limit risky behaviour by offering individual and age
appropriate treatments and supportive care including art, music and play therapy.
Family support will be provided to ensure a holistic approach to addressing the trauma.
£499,525
Craigavon
Intercultural
Programme
Craigavon
The 'STEP UP' project will support black and ethnic minority young people aged 11-20
who are disengaged from education or at risk of being involved in criminal activity. It
will reduce their levels of underachievement, social exclusion and involvement in
criminal activity and raise their confidence. The young people will take part in a
programme of sport, drama and personal development designed to establish positive
group dynamics. The project will run afterschool education support groups, media
workshops, day trips and one-to-one peer mentoring. There will also be information
meetings for parents on the educational and vocational opportunities available to their
children.
£405,398
Something
Special
Derry/L'de
rry
The 'Tuned-In Project' will support young people aged 14-20 with a learning disability
who have disengaged or are considered at high risk of disengaging from education. The
project will develop a training and employment programme to support them using music
and the arts for individual development and empowerment and to challenge negative
social perceptions. It will develop a social economy company through which the young
people will organise a range of events which might include, DJ/Club nights, concerts and
arts festivals. The project will build their confidence and self-esteem, employability,
and promote a positive view as contributors to the cultural and social life of their city.
£480,290
Kinship Care
Northern
Ireland Ltd
Derry/L'de
rry
The project will help young people aged 8-20 and their carers receive their proper
entitlement to therapeutic and financial support. It will create a new drop-in centre and
organise ‘Siblings Nights.’ A specialist Advocacy Service will be created and the project
will accompany members to Family Intervention Meetings if required. A Peer Support
Programme will be set up, and members will design their own web-site. The project will
help the young people gain improved confidence, self-esteem and well-being.
£442,359
Special
Educational
Needs Advice
Centre
NI Wide
The project will support young people aged 8 to19 with special educational needs and
disabilities who are in the care system or have become disengaged from school. Young
people in care do not have the same framework of family support as those young people
with parents who are motivated to seek advice, ensure learning needs are met and
support their education. A dedicated independent specialist education advocacy service
will advise young people at risk, ensuring them access to appropriate educational
support to improve their learning. The project will build direct links with social work
teams, schools, foster carers, foster agencies and youth groups to identify those who
need the project's support.
£233,081
Gerry Rogan
Initiative Trust
NI Wide
The ‘Re-Engaging Youth' project will provide support and education to young people
aged 16-20 who are not in education, employment or training. It will focus on young
people from the 36 Neighbourhood Renewal Areas or those who have left care or the
criminal justice system and will be delivered in partnership with Opportunity Youth. The
project will provide the young people with the skills and capacity to successfully reengage with education, employment or training. They will take part in a Challenge Day
at Belfast Activity Centre followed by a Challenge Week at Sheep Island View Hostel.
They will also receive one-to-one mentoring.
£499,324
Parents'
Education As
Autism
Therapists
NI Wide
The `Educational Inclusion for Young People with Autistic Spectrum Disorders project'
will provide support to young people aged 8-20 who are disengaged or at risk of
disengaging from education. People with ASD find it difficult to respond appropriately to
their environment and form relationships with others.
One-to-one support in the home/school setting will be offered and a programme of
social skills will also be planned. A range of training workshops for parents, carers and
professionals including teachers will also be run, providing the skills and tools to assist
members to re-engage in education.
£472,596
North Down
Community
Network
North
Down -
The DICE project will support young people aged 10-16 in the Kilcooley, Bloomfield,
Whitehill, Breezemount, Holywood and Clandeboye areas. It will run a range of
programmes to support young people engage with employment/training and education
and these programmes may include gardening, social care, fashion, sexual health, multimedia and numeracy and literacy skills. An assortment of programmes will be delivered
in each of the areas to encourage the young people to with one another. A volunteering
programme will also be set up.
£439,521
Lower Ormeau
Residents'
Action Group
South
Belfast
The `Engaging for Change' project will support young people aged 14-20 from the
Ballynafeigh, Shaftesbury and Botanic areas of Belfast. It will address the culture of
underachievement and unemployment, reducing levels of substance misuse, anti-social
behaviour and criminal activity. It will also address young people's isolation from their
communities and a mentoring programme will improve confidence, self-esteem, and
employability. Young people will do courses based on their interests and needs, e.g.
driving lessons, first aid at work, Health & Safety at Work, Active Leadership. A new
youth drop-in facility will also open in the Shaftesbury Community and Recreation Centre
on a Friday and Saturday evening.
£457,999
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