CYP News!
Last updated: 31-Jan-2012
Interview with Dominic Jukes
Dominic Jukes talks about why he loves volunteering at Canongate Youth Project.
Farewell!
The news today is that Neil Hyndman, Project
Worker on the Options Plus lifeskills programme, will be leaving CYP on
9th September to further his studies in community education at Edinburgh
University.
Good luck, Neil - you will be sadly missed!
Congratulations!
Our Options+ lifeskills programme achieved a 33% success rate for positive progressions in the last year. To put it into contrast, the average for Edinburgh for other lifeskills programmes was 13% and the Scottish average was 15%!
A special thank you to all those Options
Plusers out there who put in so much effort and commitment to achieve
these awesome outcomes!
CYP Live Music Fundraiser
We will be staging an exciting live music fundraising event at the Bongo Club at 7pm on 26th March, featuring the Hipple People, the Edinburgh Bhangra Crew and Moondawgs! Full details can be found on this downloadable poster.
Please hurry and book because seats are limited and they are going like hot cakes!
Petition to Save Edinburgh Jobless Services
We would cordially invite you to read CYP Options+ worker Neil Hyndman's open letter on the future funding of Options+ and then please sign the Save Edinburgh Jobless Services petition.
It will only take a minute of your time to do so and will we hope help to save vital funding that is at present in danger of being compromised.
Thank you!
CYP 2010 newsletter
The CYP 2010 annual report has now been published in the form of a newsletter and you can access it here.
Stevie Palmer
The exciting news is that CYP's very own Stevie Palmer is to release his debut album entitled Heartprint Shadow on the Greentrax Recordings label on 1st December. You can preview it now on his exciting new website featuring his work as a singer songwriter and recording artist:
New Photos
Clare Jamieson has sent in some pics of some of our Get Ready for Work trainees over the past few years and you can view their activities here or maybe even spot your own photo if you were lucky enough to be there!
New Videos
Two of our Options+ young people, Lucy Crossthwaite and Mark Wilson, have recently completed a DVD project as part of Edinburgh City Libraries' Tales of One City series which has been posted up on YouTube.
You can view their videos here:
My Calton Hill and Dinner at the Greyfriars Mission
CAST
It is with great sadness that we have to announce the closure of the CAST part of the Project from April 2010 due to a lack of funding. This extremely successful part of the Project (previously known as PILP - Preparation for Independent Living - offered a range of crucial services to teenagers over the past ten years.
We wish the staff from the Project every success in the future.
Music Developments
Thanks to the generosity of the Daisy Chain Fund we are delighted to announce that music tuition and access to our recording studio is now available to our Primary School age members.
For details of the clubs programme for 2009-10, see the Youth Work page.
Complaints Procedure
We have just published a new document giving details of how to lodge a complaint about CYP or any of our services and detailing the procedures involved in processing any complaints we receive.
Calling all budding musicians!
The CYP Music Club, which takes place every Monday evening between 6.45pm and 8.45pm (apart from school holidays and public holidays) would like to extend a welcome to anyone aged between 12 and 17 who has an interest in developing skills in drum kit, guitar, bass, singing and songwriting.
As well as these opportunities there is also the chance to access our professional standard recording studio (with the support of our recording engineer). You then have the option, if you want, to showcase your best tracks on this website and give your new musical career a boost!
The club costs 50p a week and is open to all
12 to 17 year olds living in our South Central Edinburgh catchment area.
For further details contact Stevie Palmer (Project Worker) at CYP on:
556-9719
Living Memories
Two CYP members, Debbie Ramsay and Debbie Smith, who are trainees in CYP's Get Ready for Work programme have recently been featured in The Southsider because of their involvement in a project with Edinburgh's Living Memory Association.
This article details how they designed their project and the poster they produced on completion of the project highlights some of the differences between life in Edinburgh now and in "the olden days!"
Wednesday Club Bebo site
The Wednesday Club has just launched its new site on Bebo and you can access it here!
West Crosscauseway Ideas Workshop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-JtG9Khvz8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDtJB70f06A
Also of interest to many will be this Causey 2 flier which you can download in .pdf format! If you don't have a .pdf reader on your PC you can download and install a free one here.
Stuart Mair - Youth Services Manager of the Year 2008!
Stuart Mair
Undoubtedly the highlight of the Project year so far was our Project Co-ordinator, Stuart Mair being nominated for and winning the Scottish Voluntary Organisation’s Youth Services Manager of the Year award. His citation recognised the Project’s 30th anniversary and the fact that over 1200 volunteers have passed through CYP during that time.
On behalf of all the paid staff, volunteers, kids, parents and carers with links to the Project, well done Stuart and congratulations!!!
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