Youth Club

Buckland Newton Youth Club is a new

initiative run voluntarily by villagers

for the young people of the village. It

aims to provide a safe and stimulating

environment for 11-16 year olds to

meet, relax and have the opportunity to

join in a variety of structured activities

including music sessions, film nights,

bake-offs and sport events. The club

will also endeavour to foster strong

links with all age groups within the

village through organising special

events for the community.

Buckland Newton Youth Club meets on a Tuesday evening between 18.30 and 20.00 in Buckland Newton Village Hall, during term time. If you have or are a young person who would like to join Buckland Newton Youth Club, you must be in Yrs 6 - Yr 12 from Buckland Newton and the surrounding parishes, and is run by local volunteers . Some additional help to run the Buckland Newton Youth Club is needed. Could you help? Please get in touch with Kate Parish on 07860 582362 / 01300 345497 or e-mail BucklandNewtonYC@gmail.com Congratulations to Buckland Newton Youth Club volunteer team who have been nominated for a BBC Make a Difference Award. Buckland Newton Youth Club quite literally kicked off the summer holiday with Project Dance, in partnership with Artsreach, providing a dance workshop to 16 young people from not only Buckland Newton but also as far as Child Okeford, Yetminster and Dorchester! A slightly quieter Kite Making Workshop then took place on the 29th July for younger children and families with the ever-creative Charlotte Marshall, experimenting with gelli plates to make beautiful bug prints and tails for kites. 16 parents and 17 young people then took part in a day trip to Brownsea Island where we rather randomly bumped into other residents of Buckland Newton too. The weather was beautiful, not too hot, and people did lots of walking and exploring, and some even had a dip in the sea! Wednesday 12th August was another collaboration with Artsreach. The Treehouse Theatre Company came to Buckland Newton Village Hall to perform Alice in Wonderland, which we followed up with a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. The show had a maximum ticket number of 60, and we had 57 bums on seats. That was a HOT day, and the rocket ice lollies afterwards were greatly appreciated by all. Most recently Debbie Clark from Creative Clay has run a Clay Workshop, continuing our support for the National Year of Reading, 14 young people made clay books depicting sea monsters, mermaids and a vampire fairy! I can't wait to see them all when they return from Debbie's kiln. Our last activity of the summer will be an evening walk, followed by pizza making, smoothies, a film and general evening of chilling out on the bean bags on Wednesday 26 August. Everything provided by Buckland Newton Youth Club is planned and facilitated by volunteers and grants have enabled us to buy in experts in their field to deliver a wide range of activities not just during the school holidays but year-round. It is therefore extremely sad that this year the grant Buckland Newton Youth Club receives from Dorset Council's Youth Fund has fallen from £8,000 to £4,000 which is going to make the range of activities that we can deliver in the academic year 2026/27 more challenging. Whilst we have a small buffer, once this has been used up next year it will make things extremely tight. Thank heavens we don't have to factor in paying staff each week too. To support our fundraising we have scheduled TWO car washes in the coming year, and I would urge everyone to come and get their car washed and support your local Youth Club. The dates are: Saturday 24 October 2026 between 0930 - 1230 Saturday 20 February 2027 between 0930 - 1230 You can of course make a donation to Buckland Newton Youth Club at any time and help us to continue our work. If you would like to do this, please email us at bucklandnewtonyc@gmail.com for details of how to donate. In the meantime if you have a young person who would like to join us for the Autumn term, they need to be in Yr 6 or above and aged 10+. Kate Parish Lead Youth Worker bucklandnewtonyc@gmail.com Following its music project with BSharp in October 2025, Buckland Newton Youth Club now has a video (well two actually) and a theme tune! You can find them both here on the Buckland Newton Community website. Click here for Video 1 and here for Video 2 and see what they have done. With a growing membership adult help is always greatly appreciated, and one of our regular volunteers is about to commence Dorset Council's free youth work training. This is a great example of how volunteering can provide the opportunity to learn new skills and provide free accredited training, that can lead to paid employment in the future. Regular volunteers will be required to have a DBS check.

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