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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
It seems like only yesterday that I was writing to celebrate the Youth Club's
annual Pantomime in a Day in January and now it is the end of April and
the start of the summer term!
The Youth Club has of course been busy in the interim, with the Yr 8s+
going on what now feels as if it will be an annual residential to London (if
the funds can be found/raised), all members enjoying a swim at the
Victorian Barn and completing an art project to make a Cabinet of
Curiosities which will go on show at the County Museum.
Youth Club members and volunteers have been working extremely hard on
the Community allotment, and I would like to thank Brad Perrett for his
support in clearing away the rubbish from the site that the young people
uncovered over the last 9 months! The Allotment is now clear, and having
had some lovely well-rotted manure donated and delivered, the young
people have been working to create some no dig beds, sow seeds, fence
the pond and make some climbing structures. The Youth Club will be using
the allotment throughout the summer, but if there is anyone in the
Community that would like to join us please feel free to come along on a
Saturday morning between 10.30 - 12.00 for the allotment club (those aged
9 and under must be accompanied by an adult).
Our summer programme is action packed and I'm looking forward to seeing
the sunrise over Buckland Newton at the Wild Camp (as long as it doesn't
rain).
With so many young people now attending the Youth Club, the volunteers
took the decision to split the Club into two groups. Yrs 6 & 7 now meet
between 1800 - 1930 and Yrs 8 + meet between 1930 - 2100. Whilst there
has been some concern expressed about this decision, the volunteers felt
it was no longer safe or manageable to have 40 young people all in the
Hall together, particularly when the older group are so much bigger
physically than some of the Yr 6s. Whenever possible, the Youth Club will
meet together for joint activities such as the Halloween Party and the
drama workshops/pantomime, but for Club nights in the Hall the group will
be broken into two.
Following its music project with BSharp in October, 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.
Kate Parish
Buckland Newton Community Website
in the heart of rural Dorset
