- Area:
- Wales
- Programme:
- Young People's Fund Make it Happen
- Release date:
- 24 5 2007
An action-packed summer is on the cards for hoards of South Wales youngsters, thanks to a cash injection of nearly £20,000 from the Big Lottery Fund to four projects developed by young people.
The projects will share in a total of £19,140 awarded through the Make It Happen strand of the Young People’s Fund programme, which helps make positive changes to young people aged 10–19 in Wales.
From adventure activities to drug awareness workshops, youngsters in Ceredigion, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Swansea and the Vale of Glamorgan will have a summer to remember thanks to the money.
With the £4,333 they received, Beaufort Youth Theatre Experience will provide summer activities for young people in the St Julians area of Newport, which will include trips to London, Oakwood and West Midlands Safari Park and activities such as quad-biking, paintballing and surfing.
Youngsters in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion will let their creative juices flow through a series of fun and educational workshops. A £5,000 award will allow the Travellers School Charity to run a project that will enable young travellers to provide a health awareness and confidence-building activity space for teenagers at two summer events. The project will also include drug awareness workshops that will get messages across through film and artwork.
The Down To Earth Project in Swansea will spend its £4,920 award enabling a group of disengaged young people to consolidate the skills acquired on an alternative curriculum programme and attend a four day camping and activity residential to strengthen their ability to work in a group.
Youngsters in Penarth, The Vale of Glamorgan, will mix and learn new skills at a festival that will provide them with a fun-packed feast of urban culture. The Penarth Youth Project Limited has received £4,887 to provide a “youth festival day” and activities that will include DJ workshops, skateboarding on professional ramps, art workshops, breakdancing, ASBO workshops, substance missuse workshops and an information stand.
Highlighting the importance of the Make it Happen programme, Big Lottery Fund Wales Committee member and Chair of the Young People’s Fund Committee, Mike Theodoulou, said: “I’m sure it will be an unforgettable summer for these youngsters. The projects will provide them with an opportunity to learn valuable new lessons, be creative, develop new and exciting skills and express themselves in a safe environment. The message these grants send to other groups is clear: If you think that between £500 and £5,000 in cash can help your group develop a range of skills and take part in a variety of activities, then get your application in to BIG.”
Further information
For further information about the projects, and contact details for the groups and organisations involved, please contact the Big Lottery Fund Wales press office by email or on the numbers below.
For further information about the Young People’s Fund and how your group can apply for funding, log onto the Big Lottery Fund website www.biglotteryfund.org.uk and use the ‘Wales’ specific search facility. Alternatively, you can telephone the Big Lottery Fund office on 01686 611 700.
Big Lottery Fund Press Office: 02920 678 207
Out of hours contact: 07760 171431
Public Enquiries Line: 08454 102030
Textphone: 0845 6021 659
Full details of the Big Lottery Fund programmes and grant awards are available on the website at www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Notes to Editors:
- On 28 November the Big Lottery Fund (Prescribed Expenditure) Order 2006 completed its Parliamentary passage and came into force Friday 1 December at which point the National Lottery Distributors Dissolution Order 2006 also came into effect dissolving the National Lottery Charities Board (Community Fund) the New Opportunities Fund, and the Millennium Commission.
- The Big Lottery Fund - the biggest of the Lottery good cause distributors - has been the joint operating name of the New Opportunities Fund, the National Lottery Charities Board (which made grants under the name of the Community Fund) since June 2004.
- The Big Lottery Fund is building on the experience and best practice of the merged bodies to simplify funding in those areas where they overlap and to ensure Lottery funding provides the best possible value for money.
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