Here are the key details for each project.
Royal Society of Blind Children – Eye Connect Cymru.
- A partnership with RSBC, CWVYS and the Wales Council for the Blind.
- A free online training session is available for both Voluntary and Statutory Youth Service providers.
- To ensure all staff and volunteers are confident and trained to include visually impaired young people in their activities, can assess and adapt their environment, and have information to appropriate and accessible equipment and practical guidance on delivering a variety of interests from specialist providers.
- Organisations can then undertake Kitemark accreditation, which promotes their professional achievement.
- Be included in a searchable map for young people, families and support services to highlight more opportunities for VI young people to explore interests, make new friends, and participate in mainstream activities – these could be face-to-face or online.
- To register your team members for training, please go to Making your activities inclusive – Royal Society for Blind Children
- These services will be monitored by a forum of VI young people to promote successes and inform RSBC for development needs and future plans. Guidance for visually impaired young people to register to be part of the panel is attached and further information is available at youth.forum@rsbc.org.uk. If young people would like to speak to someone about this opportunity, please contact Juliette via Juliette.Parfitt@rsbc.org.uk, or phone 0203198022 / 07818591610.
Children in Need Grantees Free Youth Work Qualifications.
- A partnership with Children in Need, CWVYS and McDonald’s, delivered by Adult Learning Wales and YMCA Swansea.
- Free accredited Levels 2 & 3 Youth Work qualifications for staff and volunteers working for organisations currently funded by CiN in Wales – available in person, online, in English and Welsh. (A maximum number of learners per organisation/per year applies).
- To upskill individuals with professionally recognised qualifications and strengthen and improve youth work services.
- Linking up with local McDonald’s restaurants to use as a safe, familiar space to deliver outreach work, build relationships with young people to divert them from negative influences and engage with youth services.
- Eligible individuals can register via Children in Need at Free Youth Work qualifications for CiN grantees.
Bytes Project – Voices for Impact.
- A partnership Led by Bytes (Northern Ireland), with Boys & Girls Clubs (Northen Ireland), Youth Initiatives (Northern Ireland), YMCA (Republic of Ireland/Northen Ireland), National Youth Council of Ireland (Republic of Ireland), YouthLink (Scotland) and CWVYS (Wales).
- Via a digital democracy platform, this survey empowers young people to share their views on important themes which are aligned with six of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Wellbeing of Future Generations Wales.
- Voluntary and Statutory Youth Services can register to work with young people to prepare them to anonymously and confidently respond to the survey.
- Free training, resources and guidance is available to youth work providers in how support young people and then use the survey results to inform and develop local services.
- We also need a small advisory panel of young people to represent their peers, where they will analyse the responses and trends and then use this data to create any form of media to advocate for change and investment on behalf of their communities and all young people across Wales. Young people can apply to be part of the panel via Youth Advisory Panel Application Form. (Poster also attached).
- To register your organisation and your young people to complete the survey on the Voices for Impact platform, go to Capturing Children and Young People’s Voices For Impact