WB PA Summary

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Youth Club and Youth Provisions

Views from young people and adults from Icklesham Parish Communities

Findings from a participatory appraisal consultation event carried out by

Hastings Trust and Youth in Motion with support from Icklesham Parish Council

Winchelsea Beach Community Hall Friday 9th

November 2012


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Table of ContentsBackground ............................................................................................................................................. 3

Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 4

Comments ........................................................................................................................................... 4

The Consultation ..................................................................................................................................... 5

Main objectives of the Evening ........................................................................................................... 5

Attendees ............................................................................................................................................ 5

World Cafe Tables; .............................................................................................................................. 6

Resources ........................................................................................................................................ 6

Cost /Entry fee ................................................................................................................................ 8

Fundraising Ideas: ....................................................................................................................... 8

Communication ............................................................................................................................. 10

Access - Preferred time and day and transport needs ................................................................. 12

Winchelsea Beach ..................................................................................................................... 12

Icklesham .................................................................................................................................. 12

Help - Timeline .............................................................................................................................. 13

Testimonials .......................................................................................................................................... 15


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BackgroundCouncillor Sue Lyward approached Flora Williams from the Neighbourhood Enablers (NE) project

with the idea of setting up a group to help deliver a youth provision/club in Winchelsea Beach. Initial

discussions identified the need and desire to engage with the young people of Icklesham Parish, to

ask them their ideas on the subject of setting up a new youth club in the parish. Sue and othervolunteers from the Winchelsea Beach community are interested in helping to set up and run a new

youth club/provision, so it was proposed that it would be sited in this locality. Flora approached

Youth in Motion (YIM), a not for profit organisation that specialises in youth and community work

across the south east of England, to help assist in the process of engaging with the young people of

Icklesham Parish. A consultation exercise was planned by Flora with help from YIM and Icklesham

Parish Council (IPC) where the young people from the parish would have the opportunity to get

across their ideas, suggestions and any issues or concerns they may have on the subject of a new

youth club/provision. Flora proposed that a Participatory Appraisal process be used to collect and

collate the information.


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Executive Summary

Main findings from the participatory research carried out by Neighbourhood

Enablers team

Everybody agreed there was a definite need for a youth club in the Parish. Everybody wasadvised at the beginning of the evening that Winchelsea Beach had already been identified

as the location for the first youth Club due to Volunteer interest within the Community.

All the young people discussed extensively their ideas for setting up a youth club, includingdiscussions on Resources, Costs, and Communications.

All those attending from Icklesham expressed a need for transport to and from the youthclub. If this service was made available all the young people from Icklesham said they would

be more than happy to use the community transport service.

A vast majority of the young people said they were interested in volunteering to help set upand run the youth club. It was very apparent that all the young people wanted to be

involved in the decision making process.

Facebook was identified by all the young people as the most preferred method ofcommunication. The Neighbourhood Enablers team have informed everybody who attended

the evening that a summary of the evening and its findings will be posted on the NE

facebook page.

Comments

Neighbourhood Enablers will be working with community volunteers to put together a project

proposal and access start-up funds.

IPC will be approached for funding to cover training / supporting and mentoring local volunteers

over a one year period.

YIM have already prepared a business plan to outline the costs for providing the training and

mentoring volunteer service.

Throughout the evening several adults showed an interest in volunteering at a youth provision in

Winchelsea beach and one volunteer came forward from Icklesham.


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Need a youth club that is led by the young people where the kids make the decisions (adult

comment).

Volunteers would be more forthcoming if they were offered support and training (adult comment).


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Cost /Entry fee

Why do we need to charge? What are the benefits?So we can keep doing the youth club More money to spend on equipment

Help to pay for food People come out moreTo appreciate it Pay for pool table

For better things in the youth club Tuck money

So we can buy more stuff Be able to invest for future needs or wants

So we can hire out services for the youth

club

Stuff being looked after

Pay on a membership basis Young enterprise scheme (adult)

Have a tuck shop

Additional comments:

Make a charge for the pool table & table tennis

Everyone seemed to agree there should be an entrance charge and estimates varied between

0.50p and 3 per session.

There were lots of ideas around saving up for days out.

Some of the fundraising money could go towards paying for skate-parks and/or football areas, mini

bus money and tuck shop.The need for another skate park came up repeatedly.

Fundraising Ideas:Cake sale

Boot fair

Sponsored run

Sponsored walk/run/swim

Talent Show

Help OAPs with shopping

Raffle

Tombola

Bag packing at supermarket

Sponsoring activities

Throw eggs at peopleQuiz nights

Bingo nights

Stocks

Poppy collecting

Table/cake sales etc

Sponsored skate/scoot

Charging the council for a 2 mile beach clean up

Walking peoples dogs

Car washing

Tuck shop

Film nightCharity fun day


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Some innovative ideas came out of this exercise, including the suggestion of bag packing at the local

supermarket. Another important finding was that all fundraising ideas suggested by the young

people were ones that they themselves could do, as opposed to other people or their peers. This

exercise also clearly illustrates how they are already aware of the need for further fundraising

activities after the club is open, and how willing and committed they all are to participating and

leading extra fundraising projects.


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Communication

What is the best form of

communication for young people?

Why/comments

Facebook Because Im on it all the time, because we all

have phones, easier to understandTwitter

E-mail

Face to face Attention grabbing, able to ask if theres

something you dont understand

Local shop Visited often, one local shop in Icklesham,

everyone uses it, flyers & leaflets displayed at

shop, then word of mouth gets information

round the community

More meetings Face to face, can talk to them, if held on a

regular basis, got skatepark following meetingface to face meetings with the council, they

thought that if they continued with meetings

they could get more

Flyers/leaflets See Local shop

Text messages Used to pass on information throughout the

community, all have phones

Video to advertise the youth fun ideas

Adult comment: Smartphone Apps & Interactive message board

Additional Comments:

Every young person agreed that communication through facebook was one of the best ways of

communicating, as they all had it and all look and read new/events etc. every day..."Facebook is

cool, so if something is on it we are more likely to pay attention to it, but newsletters aren't cool".

The young people thought that meetings/consultations with councillors was a really effective way of

communicating; they have had meetings/consultation with councillors in the past and told them

what they felt they needed and wanted in their area, resulting in them receiving a park, rope swings,

skate park and basketball court. Their only criticism on this form of communication was that even

though it had worked (skate park), it was taken away from them not long after because the

councillors said they didn't use it enough, which in the young people's opinions was incorrect. So

their idea would be for them and the councillors to have regular meetings/consultations so they can

share their opinions and thoughts on a regular basis.

Many of the young people thought that advertising/ putting flyers and leaflets in local shops in the

areas was another effective way of communicating with them as they all use the local shops on a

daily basis, before and after school.


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Access - Preferred time and day and transport needs

Winchelsea Beach

Times: 7pm-9pm

Days: Friday or Saturday

Transport: Not required as youth club will be sited in Winchelsea Beach

Icklesham

Times: 5:30pm 7:30pm was most popular; other suggestions were 6:30pm 8:30pm & 8pm-9pm

Days: Friday was most popular, other suggestions were mainly weekends, or any day after school,

except Wednesdays.

Transport: Everyone from Icklesham required transport to the youth club assuming it was initially

based in Winchelsea Beach. The majority of young people said they were happy to use community

transport to get to a youth club if it wasnt located in their locality.


Majority of young people indicated they were happy to help out at the youth club, particularly

joining a youth council and in helping to set up talent shows.

Majority of young people would like to see a skate-park similar to the one at Peasmarsh.


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Help - Timeline

The following is a list topics that the young people identified as needing to be discussed, decided,

and planned prior to the opening of a new youth club:

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4Skate-park Staff , adult or teens Advertisement What day

Decorations Activities Transport Pay for trips & maybe

transport

Facilities Space/venue Set a date & time Time

Fundraising activities Facilities, pool, table

tennis etc

Flyers to kids Entrance fee

Entrance fee Table Tennis, easy

storage

Staff Transport

Play Doh Needs planning more Money Staff, volunteers

Badges Wifi Organising Teams Logo sweatshirt

Put it in Icklesham Limited number of

people 5-20

Fundraising for days

out

Crafts & Arts

Advertising Fundraising Monthly/weekly

membership 1-3

Music

Tuck Shop Fri/Sat 7-9 Leadership Tuck

Minibus Food & drink Helpers/volunteers Pay to get in

Skate-park Memberships, no

holidaymakers

Sponsors/fundraising Design a name & logo

1-2 entrance fee Help out Fundraising

How many kids can

come

Open day Rotas for games

Workers, who will be

working here

Food or not Friday night disco

Open day


Every group said they were interested in volunteering and helping to set-up and run the youth club.

Every group said they were happy to use community transport to go to a youth club if it wasnt

based in their community.


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Testimonials

"It was great to see so many of our young people so enthusiastically engaged in expressing

what facilities they wanted, how they would get there, how this should be run & how it

should be paid for. I congratulate all involved in setting up & running this event and for the

young people & adults who took part."

Councillor Sue Lyward has had a vision for some time to create better facilities for young

people in the Parish of Icklesham. At her instigation the Parish council has worked with

Neighbourhood Enablers and Youth in Motion to consult young people and find out what

they would like. Flora Williams from Neighbourhood Enablers and James Brill from Youth in

Motion organised with Sue Lyward and Steve Foreman the consultation event on Friday 9th

November 2012. Staff from both organisations met young people and adults who may

volunteer to help run a youth club. Using Planning for Real type techniques Flora and others

encouraged people to fully express their views. This has resulted in a clear picture of what

those young people in the villages of Icklesham would like the Parish Council to do. The

Parish Council is now in a much stronger position to provide the services that young people

want and will value.

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