Month: August 2022

The Welsh Government has issued criteria for local authorities to bid for additional funding through the Youth Support Grant.

The funding is in relation to supporting two of the Interim Youth Work Board’s recommendations.

Every local authority is therefore able to apply for £20,000 for Welsh language provision and also £20,000 for Equality & Diversity work.

 

Part of the criteria is that local authorities must work with voluntary organisations to help deliver against these recommendations.

We suggest that you make contact with your local Principal Youth Officer/Youth Service Manager in order to discuss these opportunities

As you likely know, CWVYS supports the Welsh Government to collect articles and news for the Youth Work newsletter.
The next issue is due out in September, so we’d like to encourage you to send us information about your news and events by 31^st August.

Please send all information to ellie@cwvys.org.uk

For this next issue the theme is Youth Work and Sustainable development, so you may wish to send in content around this theme, or look to see if any of the other sections best fits the news you’d like to share about your project or organisation.

Here you can find the Style Guide to give you an idea of what the Youth Engagement team at the Welsh Government expects.

You can find previous issues here: https://gov.wales/youth-work-newsletters

To subscribe follow this link: https://gov.wales/subscribe-youth-work-newsletter

We look forward to seeing your submissions!

Please could you take some brief time out of your day to complete Lizzy’s vital survey?

https://southwales.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/mapping-and-evaluating-the-voluntary-youth-work-sector-for-7l

The KESS project – Mapping and Evaluating the Voluntary Youth Work Sector for Wales is a Masters by Research project conducted by the University of South Wales and funded by the European Social Fund in partnership with CWVYS. The research aims to make the voluntary youth work sector more visible and ensure their contributions are valued by all stakeholders. You may be aware that the voluntary sector is under-researched and valued in comparison to statutory services, who have an audit each year. We hope our research can change this.

To do so, we would value your contribution to our short online survey. If you are an organisation that provides voluntary youth work services for young people in Wales, please follow the link below to the survey which simply captures the nature of your organisation and the support provided to young people. Survey completion should take no more than 15 minutes. Your time and comments are greatly valued.

 

To start the survey, please follow this link: https://southwales.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/mapping-and-evaluating-the-voluntary-youth-work-sector-for-7

 

Please also share the survey link and information among your networks (e.g. by email or social media) – the more responses we receive the better we can represent the experiences of the sector as a whole and the young people they support.

You will find further information on the project at the beginning of the survey, however, should you have any questions or feedback on the research, please feel free to contact the researcher by email: Elizabeth.bacon@southwales.ac.uk

You can also follow this work on the following social media platforms;

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MappingYouthWorkinWales
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorkinWales
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mappingyouthworkinwales/

Thank you in advance for your input. With your support we hope we can deliver on bringing the change and representation the sector needs.

 

Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarships (KESS 2) is a pan-Wales higher level skills initiative led by Bangor University on behalf of the HE sector in Wales. It is part funded by the Welsh Government’s European Social Fund (ESF) convergence programme for West Wales and the Valleys.

 

Golley Slater have created a folder of assets for those interested  in supporting the Apprenticeships Summer Campaign which begins Monday 15^th August.

The content can be downloaded here: Apprenticeship summer campaign – stakeholder assets

Additionally here you can find;

Apprenticeship sectors animation ^

All content is in Welsh and English and there are included suggestions of some social copy which you’re welcome to use. If you are getting involved to promote the scheme to the young people you engage with, could you please use the hashtag #ResultsDay2022

If you would like to find out more or to access more resources including a longer animation, please email Ellie Thorne via  ethorne@golleyslater.co.uk