Staff Profiles

As we find ourselves in another lockdown, I wanted to look back at some of the great work NYY did towards the end of 2020 and the plans for 2021.

North Yorkshire Youth Team would love to wish everyone a safe and happy new year!

Some of NYY’s staff recently spent a wonderful morning on Zoom learning Christmas crafts with Lucy from NYCC!

There are plenty of ways to celebrate Halloween that are slightly different from our normal house to house trick or treating.

As our youth clubs are currently unable to open due to Covid Restrictions our Youth Workers are carrying out detached youth work in the communities on youth clubs nights instead.

In line with Government and Public Health guidelines around working with young people during the current pandemic, we are still not sure when we will be able to re-open Tang Hall Youth club at the

In the last few weeks, NYY’s youth work teams have resumed street based detached work across the county.

We have been keeping ourselves busy on the coast with a variety of activities via virtual youth club and mentoring.

Wow! So, this year has been a strange one to say the least!

During these new and strange times NYY youth clubs across the region have been adapting to life in lockdown and discovering new ways of delivering youth club activities.

Here at North Yorkshire Youth we know that young people are kind, caring and determined.

During this period of social isolation that has prevented youth clubs everywhere from opening, North Yorkshire Youth’s weekly clubs have had to develop new ways of contacting and engaging with the

Coronavirus has affected us all, not least our young people! But the students that I work with in Filey are coping pretty well!

Like much of the country, and across the world, normal service has been put on hold due to Coronavirus, so regular youth activities are currently postponed until it is safe to restart them.

Hello from Lockdown!

During this unusual and difficult time we are hosting Virtual Youth Clubs across North Yorkshire.

We’ve been discussing setting up an initiative to aid people experiencing period poverty.

Filey Youth Club has been meeting out of St Johns Church Hall for just over 12 months now.

The Red Box Project is a community-based, not-for-profit initiative, to support young people throughout their periods by providing red boxes filled with free period products.

Tang Hall Youth Club runs on Wednesday evenings 6-7pm in the Community Centre, which is right in the heart of the community.  Between 15-30 young people aged between 11 and 14 attend the Youth Club

Once again North Yorkshire Youth have donated sleeping bags, roll mats and travel pillows to homeless charities across North Yorkshire.

Young people in the Craven area got the chance to take part in the Watershed project during November.

These beautiful poppies were made for Remembrance Day by the young people of two NYY member clubs, JAM and COZIE in Easingwold.

Eastfield Youth Club has been running now for nearly a year. A few weeks in, we found the one thing that always brings everyone together – football.

The Youth Development Team (YDT) are busy planning for this year’s AGM / Activity Day.

Filey Youth Club have built great relationships within our community over the last few months.  We have had 3 different workshops with Bike About Filey with more planned.  These will be funded by t

National Vegetarian Week at North Yorkshire Youth

On Saturday 8th June, Ian, Panda & Vicki attended York Pride 2019.

Last month saw a free activities afternoon being organised for local children and young people from the small rural village of Carlton in Coverdale.

I received an email from a gentleman enquiring if I could support him with a new Chess Club in Harrogate.  He was already involved with an existing club but had plans to extend the provision to sec

Schools day with the Deer Shed Festival is shaping up to be an amazing day’s volunteering for our young volunteers.

Filey Youth Club have been working hard to make links in the local community.  We are also trying to find ways of raising funds to enable us to provide more active and relevant activities i

Last month I spoke about partnership work with the libraries.  Another successful joint venture has been with The Carer’s Resource.  Together with Helen Prince, the Strategy and Planning Lead for Y

North Yorkshire Youth regularly work in partnership with local libraries – supporting projects they have put together themselves, as well as working on bespoke ones, like the new teen space in Knar

Leyburn Art and Community Centre becomes NYY member

Young People at Greatwood Youth Club in Skipton have been busy working on a photogrammetry project with the Craven Museum.  The 3D images they have created using cameras and computer software will

North Yorkshire Youth works with Rural Arts to offer ‘Ideas on a Shoestring’!

NYY Youth Volunteer Project - Volunteering is one of the most rewarding things you can do whilst also enabling you to meet new people, gain skills and experience, and have fun!  Ar

‘Stop the Inferno’ is a multi-agency project which we are running at Jennyfields Youth Club in Harrogate, in partnership with North Yorkshire Fire Service, North Yorkshire Police, Fairfax and Bilto

What an exciting start to the new academic year. Ages Together Ripon has begun and we have a high level of excitement all round!

Invited to Borrowby Show by Sally from Borrowby Kidz (an NYY member group) Clare, Becca and Panda spent the day in a tent making upcycled fridge magnets with young people!

Snape Youth Club and St.Gregory’s Youth Club celebrated their final sessions in style before breaking up for summer with a delicious BBQ, snacks and a range of fun team building and sports activiti

The excitement of the summer holiday is kicking in and lots of young people have been trying to work out what they can do with their time in the holidays that might be a little more productive than

Ebberston/ Allerston Youth Group have just celebrated their 10th Anniversary with a day on the North Bay beach at Scarborough’s.

Young People attending Colburn Youth Project have recently enjoyed a fantastic evening of hand and scrap drumming, led by a professional musician at Colburn Library.

Youth Development Workers Vicki, Ian and Panda form the new team bringing LGBT+ rights to the heart of North Yorkshire Youth!

North Yorkshire Youth is working under the umbrella of Ex-Forces Support North Yorkshire to bring together Ex- service men and women and local young people to tell each other’s stories…

Carlton Lodge Activity Centre asked Lightwater Quarries for their help in providing some gravel.