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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
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