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Charity Update - July 2020

So it's been a while since we last wrote on the website. From all of us here at Thatcham Youth, we hope you and your families are doing well during this difficult time. All of our activities have been closed due to the pandemic, but we are hoping that will soon change.

The Zone for 11-14 year olds has been running virtually for the last few weeks and is well attended and enjoyed by the young people who take part. Its completely free to join in and anyone aged 11-14 is welcome, so get in touch with us to find out how to get involved!

Thatcham Youth Awards

Do you know a young person or a youth leader in Thatcham who deserves to be recognised for something they do or have done?

In 2020, Thatcham Youth will be celebrating 10 years since it first launched as a small fortnightly youth club and we are going to be holding a celebration evening in April which will involve an awards evening open to all Thatcham Residents.

If you can think of someone, keep them in mind and nominate them! We will have the following award categories:

- Inspirational Young Person - Age categories of under 11, 12-14 & 15-18

Christmas Message

Christmas Message from the Head of Youth Activities - Dan Carter

From myself, all of the staff & volunteers here at Thatcham Youth, we would like to wish every a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. 

And to all of the children, young people & families who have attended our youth clubs, roller disco or free school holiday events, we are looking forward to seeing you back in the new year, with 2020 set to be our best year yet! 

Thatcham Youth Awards Night 2020

Do you know a young person or a youth leader in Thatcham who deserves to be recognised for something they do or have done?

Next year Thatcham Youth are celebrating 10 years since we first launched as a small fortnightly youth club and we are going to be holding a celebration evening in April which will involve an awards evening open to all Thatcham Residents.

Free Summer events a success!

During the summer holidays Thatcham has benefited from some free activities for young people & families thanks to Thatcham Youth who ran three free events. The first was a reptile handling session, everyone enjoyed getting to handle and learn about the snakes, tortoises, lizard and more! There was then the annual Summer Family Fun Day with a whole range of arts & crafts, sports, bouncy castles and bouncy castles and the final event was a comedy show from Fred in the Shed which went do a treat with lots of audience participation from children and adults alike! 

Summer of Fun Events

Thatcham Youth are proud to be a hosting three FREE events during the summer school holidays. All of these will be held at Moorside Community Centre, Uruqhart Road, Thatcham, RG19 4RE. The Family Fun Day has been kindly funded by Newbury Building Society and the Animal Handling & Fred in the Shed show have been funded directly by Thatcham Youth. 

We're Recruiting!

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our youth club teams.

The post is 6 hours per week - Working at both our G-STAX & Vision Youth Club

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate experience in:

- Managing and delivering a varied and engaging range of activities to young people in a youth setting.

- Being able to engage young people in activities and actively seeking their input to design activity programmes based around them.

Dan's Blog - June 2019

Here we are at the end of June and this year is just flying by! Its been as busy as ever here at Thatcham Youth.

Since my last blog we ran our annual Easter Family Fun Day in April, which was our busiest yet! We saw hundreds of people through the doors enjoying the free offering of arts & crafts, sports from Berkshire Youth’s SPLAT team and bouncy castles. It was a great day for it too with the sun shining! We received lots of great and positive feedback about the day, my thanks go out to the volunteers who came on the day to make it all possible.

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