AGM Report 2020-21
www.thewayzyouth.co.uk
Annual General Meeting 26th January 2022
About The Wayz...
The Wayz is a fun, safe and welcoming place for young people from across Bracknell Forest to attend. There are a variety of projects available in order to cater for a wider variety of young people. These young people attend in order to enjoy and partake in leisure time activities, as well as gain the opportunity to try new things. We feel our role is to support and empower them through their own development; through a consistent and positive pathway of new opportunities, challenges, experiences, training, self– reflection and awareness. All of which is designed to develop each young person in regards to their own needs and aspirations. This provides an arena to help support young people gain the confidence and understanding when dealing with current issues and challenges in their lives.
Current Projects Running consist of;
Juniors, Inters, Seniors, Chill Out, Hang Out, Day Camps Activity Scheme, Volunteer Programme, 14-17yrs old Offer, Community Programme and our Mobile Youth Hub ; working in schools and detached within the community.
The Wayz has continued as an offer which enables and empowers young people to engage and take ownership of a number of responsibilities. The young people continue to drive the programmes which are important to them. Through activities and informal discussions, the young people contribute in identifying topics and create a programme which helps tackle the challenges but also offers opportunities for young people to attend and have fun. Through discussions the young people have held individually, or as a collective, they have identified their own focus areas; as well as the impact on the community around them. This promotes engagement and prevents young people being excluded from the group or programme. The Wayz strongly believes young people have interests so it is important to encourage young people to exercise that interest in some form which integrates the group and benefits and supports their personal, social and educational development. It has been a very different and challenging year. Our offer has allowed our team, young people and community to witness some great events, activities and contributions from our young people and supporters. We hope that this highlights the potential to other young people and community stakeholders of the opportunities which are/can be offered by The Wayz and its young people.
The Wayz Management Committee Board
David Seward (Chair), Bianca Askew-Gallipoli (Vice Chair), Carol Staniford (Trustee), Cllr Chris Turrell (Trustee), Danielle Lane (Committee Member), Katrina David (Committee Member), Louise Gould (Trustee) Amy Wallbanks (Youth Committee Member) and Alicia Moore (Youth Committee Member)
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The Wayz Youth Worker and Centre Manager
Centre Admin & Data Manager Sessional LIC
Co-Worker
Volunteers
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The Wayz 2020-21
170 975
Different Young people
Session Engagements
engaged in centre
250+
Detached Hours
39
Day Camps
Engagements
17
Volunteers Youth Volunteers
68
Agency Referrals
100+
Mobile Hub YP
“Creating Opportunities for Youth Development”
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“I am enjoying my volunteering and have gained lots of confidence, I enjoyed the
residential and am looking forward to completing the Youth Achievement Award and being
a Mental Health Youth Champion”
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Chair of Trustees Report
We cannot start this report without acknowledging the pressure young people have been under with the restrictions associated to Covid, which has introduced so many new methods of working and learning, bringing school into the home. Without doubt the experience has been different for every young person, but for those who do not have the resources or support at home this has increased levels of anxiety. What we can be proud of is the adaption of the team at The Wayz, the staff have been magnificent in trying to continue that support for young people, to stay in contact through, online meetings, online youth clubs, one to one support in the parks and outside the young peoples own homes, all the team have adapted and we are rightly so proud.
The centre has not stood still though and we are delighted to have been able to support young people to access additional Accreditations: 15 Youth Achievement Awards , 20 Futureproof 10 young people qualified as first aiders, 10 updated there Health and Safety skills and 8young people completed the Elevate training. The team have continue to deliver Social Action project, volunteering workshops and training despite lack of face to face.
We also had new funding from Barnardo’s which supported the Mobile Youth Hub (schools, detached and group work) enabling us the team to reach out to 68 new young people.
We have been Grant funded through Awards for All, Bracknell Forest Council Business Grant, Berks Comm Foundations lead to cladding of toilets, sports hall, kitchen and chillout room with the renovations to the centre continuing, it is important that the centre keeps up with expectations of society and young people.
The transition for young people out of Lockdown has been a challenge for some and the support they have had from the team at The Wayz outstanding which is demonstrated by the self-reflection.
Questionnaires following Day Camps
91% felt they had increased their confidence.
100% happier to be there and doing something fun
91% felt it helped they them socially before going back to school
100% wanted to come again
100% identified and felt they had achieved something.
Finally can we say goodbye to Ollie Welch, Alfie Day, Dan White and Leanne Stock but also welcome to the team Chelsea Piggott, Layna Spiers and Lauren Costello.
The team have been truly fantastic this year against a back drop of difficulty and for that on behalf of the community I thank you all, and to Gareth Mepham on behalf of the members, family and community we give the biggest thanks for your leadership and dedication. Thank you.
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Youth Worker’s Report
This year has been a difficult and very different for The Wayz and our offer and engagement with young people and the community. Living through the Covid Pandemic, The Wayz had to react to changing guidance and access to young people. We altered our offer quickly to support young people through online Youth Sessions. Up until July, our offers were through detached, 1:1 and Zoom video calling. This had a huge impact on our numbers of engagements. It was a growingly difficult time for young people, with the lack of support (through transition between, years, schools and colleges), worries and practical challenges around changes and impact around Covid, growing challenges around Mental Health and a restricted and lack of engagement with service and opportunities, from previous networks.
We also used the time to support the community through our detached work. Our Youth Workers visited various areas across Bracknell Forest working in Partnership with local police and council teams to ensure the support and engagement was optimised.
From August, we were able to introduce face to face bubbles, bring people back into the centre and deliver face to face sessions. Unfortunately with the ever-changing guidance the centre-based engagement was very inconsistent.
We were able to offer Day Camps but at a very restricted rate of a maximum of 13 young people per week, not trip and limited activities.
As well as sessional zoom calls, we have also delivered Futureproof to a group of 8 young people with another 22 booked on to complete this by April. This looked at Community, Self Identity, Communication and Health and Well Being. This is followed by the young people completing either Challenge, Bronze or Silver levels in Youth Achievement Awards.
The Wayz have been able to offer a ‘Your Move’ Programme to our young people 14-17years. Through Get Berkshire Active funding, The Wayz were able to support young people in learning about Emotional Intelligence and it’s ability to support them in becoming ‘Work Ready’. Delivered over 9 weeks of Zoom sessions, by Lee from Mobile Team Challenge, a company using experiential learning and appreciative inquiry, young people developed their ability to recognise, understand and handle their own emotions and others emotions too. So far young people have learnt about self-awareness, communication, and taking personal responsibility for their leadership performance. It has been amazing to see the continued engagement from the young people and seeing them explore and challenge themselves and each other. At a time when next steps for young people are sometimes overlooked this is a creative support and development tool for the now and the future.
Through Berkshire Youth and Barnardo’s, we have been able to enhance our 1:1 work with young people, through zoom, school, community and within the centre. We have supported young people with transitions from school, family life, well being, confidence and identity and esteem, and more.
Our Senior group have been working on well-being a lot. We set daily challenges for three weeks which they have all worked on and shared evidence. This ranged from walking steps, sleep patterns, relation, community based, reflection tool and trying new things.
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Youth Worker’s Report
Since September we have also been running the Mobile Hub in school. Paige and I visited Brakenhale, Easthampstead Park Community School and Harmans Water as part of the offer. Working with the school and young people to support their transition. Working at lunch times and afternoons (EPCS) to support young people and just see how they are doing. It has been useful to direct some of the detached work as we are finding out locations of groups hanging around and then they are familiar with some of the staff they are seeing in different settings
The volunteer programme has gained £5k funding from Silva Homes and has been able to support young people into volunteering opportunities. These have been more along social action rather than in sessions each week. They have also been able to do training and workshops around their volunteering development. We have been able to support some doing youth achievement awards too.
In July our volunteers ran a cake sale and promoted this locally. They generated £82 in sales and donations. This is to provide a number of care packages to local elderly residents. They also accrued six bags of food for the local foodbank.
Since July we have had a new adult volunteer who has supported our detached and junior/inters bubble session. This has proven a great help to us but also they have suggested they have benefitted hugely from it too.
17 Youth Volunteers
12 different volunteers in opportunities
One social action event (60 hours engagement in total)
9 training sessions completed
14 volunteer zoom sessions.
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Theory of Change
The Wayz - Theory of Change
| Evidence | Evidence | Evidence | Evidence | Evidence | Evidence | Evidence | Evidence | Evidence | |||
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| Aim | Support and Empower Young People to direct their own Personal, Social and Educational Development |
•Beneficiary case studies/ testimonials |
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| Impacts | Improved Health and Well-Being | •Parent/ guardian and stakeholder |
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| Increased Awareness and Access to Positive Lifestyle Opportunities | feedback/ testimonials. |
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| Increased Positive Relationships | •Underpinning research |
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| Increased Community Belonging, Social Inclusion and Perceived Value | evidence supported by |
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| Increased Independence | quality assured outcome data |
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| Increased Ability to Reflect and Make Positive Decisions | |||||||||||
| Outcomes | Activity Specific Outcomes Accreditations/Qualifications •Qualification records •Activity specific questionnaires |
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| Communication | •Distance |
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| Confidence and Agency | travelled: post- participant |
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| Planning and Problem Solving | reflection tool compared to pre- |
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| Relationship and Leadership | Seven Core Capabilities |
participant reflection tool. |
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| Creativity | •Case studies | ||||||||||
| Resilience and Determination | |||||||||||
| Managing Feelings | |||||||||||
| Attendance Figures and Satisfaction Rates •Attendance records •Satisfaction levels from post- session feedback questionnaire |
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| Activities/ Approach |
Youth Work |
Day Camps/ Holiday Provision |
Schools | Social | Volunteer | EET | Healthy | •Session plans/ activity descriptions •Job descriptions |
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| 1:1 | Action | Workshops | Development | Lifestyle | |||||||
| Support | Projects | Programmes | |||||||||
| Youth Club Based and Outreach Leisure Time Activities for Young People | |||||||||||
| Leisure Time Activities Community Activities Volunteering and Training Opportunities Topical/ Focused Interventions •Staff/volunteer resources •Infrastructure resources |
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| Inputs | |||||||||||
| Context & Needs |
Young people stated needs, e.g.: • Relationships • Self-Esteem • Behaviour • Emotional Health |
Societal, Community, School Needs, e.g.: • Multiple Deprivation • Educational Attainment • Mental Health • Risk Taking Behaviour • Physical Health (e.g. Obesity and Sexual Health) • Vulnerability (e.g. to CSE or Radicalisation) |
•Young people – pre-participant reflection tool etc. •Parent/guardian, referrer and stakeholder feedback •Partner data (IMD, JSNA, research reports etc.) |
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Statement’s
YP Statement: ‘ Volunteering at The Wayz this summer has been a great experience. Before I started, Berkshire Youth ran and organised training sessions in Water Safety, Safeguarding and Equality and Diversity which really helped build my confidence and prepare me for the different roles. Gareth and all the staff were extremely welcoming and supportive and despite restrictions due to COVID-19 I was able to engage in both detached and sessional work. I’ve really enjoyed getting out and about and checking in with young people in the local area, it’s given me the opportunity to interact with children in a completely different setting to anything I’ve done before. Helping at the juniors and inters session on a Tuesday evening is also great because you get to have a more long term interaction with the young people and I’m looking forward to continuing with these sessions along with any other opportunities that are available in the future.’
Parent Statement: ‘During the summer of 2020 The Wayz were able to offer us a subsidised place for both my sons Harry and George. Without help towards the cost of youth club, both Harry and George would not have been able to attend. As a lot of families, we were on a reduced income due to Covid19 and with Gareth being able to offer us a reduced rate that was affordable for us, we were over the moon that the boys could attend. Harry and George often attend The Wayz over school holidays and also during term time when the Tuesday night session is on. This has enabled both boys to enhance their social skills and gain some independence because of the activities that are on offer. We really appreciate being able to have reduced rates when available. This is because sending both boys can be quite expensive, and we are a low-income family.
As a family we really appreciated the benefit of Harry and George being able to attend youth club over the summer period. After lockdown both boys needed to have some social interaction and time out of our house. They were both quite anxious after spending such a long time away from school and I feel that the time they spent at The Wayz over the summer holidays helped them a great deal with transitioning back to school in September.
George has Autism and to have a break from some of his behaviours allowed his siblings some 1-1 time with me. It also allowed us to do activities that we would find hard to do with George at home. I believe The Wayz offers a safe space for George to interact with children from mainstream school which is a huge benefit as George now attends specialist provision.
I believe that youth services are vital to young people and with lack of funding it is hard to reach out to all children that need it. I feel that The Wayz do a vital job for the children in Bracknell Forest and if any funding is available it is much needed and greatly appreciated by the staff at The Wayz.’
YP statement: ‘I really enjoyed The Wayz, it was fun and I met two new friends. It is good being out and back seeing people. I really enjoyed the trip to the wood and winning points in the ball challenge’
Parent Statement: ‘ I just wanted to say thanks so much for yesterday - Libby LOVED the Youth Club! She was really proud of herself when she came out so I was really pleased - we are definitely going to keep coming!’
S. Buchanan Easthampstead Park Community School: ‘ The Wayz have been a fantastic support over the last term for a number of vulnerable young people within year 9.
The young people have looked forward every week to the opportunity to meet Garth and have valued the opportunity to talk about issues impacting them in a safe environment. It has allowed them to have time to process their emotions and deal with frustrations both at home and at school in the current challenging times. They will actively seek out to check he is in school weekly to ensure they have their session which demonstrates the value they place on the support he has offered. This support has been the most effective to date in engaging our students.
The program and the co-ordination of logistics has helped the smooth running of the delivery of this intervention.’
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Gareth Mepham
Area Youth and Community Worker
E: gareth.mepham@berkshireyouth.co.uk
T: 07928 816 186
The Wayz Youth Centre Calfridus Way Bracknell Berkshire RG12 9ET
T: 01344 483596
www.thewayzyouth.co.uk Registered Charity No. 1181340
Acknowledgements and How to be involved?
As a centre, The Wayz is highly reliant on community investment and genuine support towards our intentions, focus and young people. When I refer to investment it is obvious financial investment is reassuring; however it is often the investment in people’s time and openness to work with us and commit to our young people. The Wayz has made a great impact towards the community and young people over the years, with each year getting stronger. Whilst we hope for this to continue I think it is important we recognise the contributions made over the past 12 months.
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Bracknell Forest Council
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Silva Homes
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Rotary Club of Easthampstead
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Bracknell Town Council
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Cadence
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Berkshire Community Foundation
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Bracknell Twinning Association
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Shanley Foundation
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Berkshire Youth
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Thames Valley Police
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Involve
As our offer moves forward we welcome support and input from others to ensure the quality on offer to young people. If you would like to be involved in supporting us, we are very happy to explore this with any individual or organisation that may have something to offer our projects. We are very proud of our members, volunteers, staff and supporters and are excited moving forward. For more information please refer to the contact details above.
The Wayz Offer is Supported by...
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