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.
Here we are in November! This year really is flying by, so much so I a couple of months late writing my quarterly blog (better late than never though...Right!?).
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!
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 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.
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.
Thatcham Youth have this month started a trial of carrying out outreach Youth Work on the streets of Thatcham. The project, which is a brand new concept for Thatcham Youth, will mean that youth workers are on the streets of Thatcham two evenings a week, engaging directly with young people.
We are excited to announce our Summer School Holiday Events that will take place during August of this year.
We kick off with an Animal Handling Session on 13th August. We then have our ever popular Summer Fun Day on 21st August and we round off with a show from Fred in the Shed on 28th August.
All events will be held at Moorside Community Centre, Urquhart Road, Thatcham. We will reveal more details closer to the time but keep an eye on our Facebook page for more.
Thatcham saw the return on Thatcham Youth's annual Easter Family Fun Day and what a great day it was! With over 400 local residents turning up at Moorside Community Centre throughout the day, taking advantage of the free easter themed arts & crafts, sports and bouncy castles on offer and a movie morning.
We’re joining UK Youth, a leading national charity that reaches 1.5 million young people across the UK, for #StopLookListen19 this National Safeguarding Week.