CONNECT: Future Ready
Schedule
Tue Jan 07 2025 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
NORTH VIEW, NE63 9XQ Ashington, United Kingdom | Ashington, EN
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CONNECT Future Ready at YMCA Northumberland, Ashington
Get ready to unleash new skills, confidence and your future career aspirations across a weeklong personal development programme for young people aged 16—30 years old.
This programme is open to any young person in Northumberland that is:
• Economically inactive & unemployed.
• Looking for a workplace readiness experience.
• Experiencing low confidence, loneliness or feeling overwhelmed about the future.
• Able to get themselves to YMCA Northumberland for each intervention day
This weeklong programme is perfect for young people that would like to:
• Find your voice and feel empowered.
• Increase personal impact and boost confidence.
• Develop team working skills and meet like-minded young people
• Have a go at creative practical activities designed to explore personal strengths, career aspirations and actionable next steps.
• Engage in fun skills development training, focusing on presentation skills, interpersonal skills, communication skills, and youth leadership.
• Achieve an Arts Award Bronze qualification – a recognised confidence boosting qualification, accredited by Trinity College London.
• Unleash your creativity and devise creative content with professional creatives.
• Learn about working in the creative industries by working with artists, theatre makers, production, practitioners & an animator!
• Engage with wrap around support from Mortal Fools practitioners pre and post programme.
• Be referred onto other employability programmes and support to engage with further opportunities.
Deadline for referrals/sign-ups: Sunday 29th December at 5pm
Taster Session: Tuesday 7th January 1-3pm
This session will provide an opportunity for young people to meet Mortal Fools, engage in some fun creative and confidence-boosting activities and sign registration paperwork.
Main Week: Monday 13th January - Friday 17th January 10am - 4pm
Reunion Session: Wednesday 29th January 2-4pm
This session will bring participants back together to think about next steps, referrals onto other programmes and to check in.
Sign up via: www.mortalfools.org.uk/connect-future-ready
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Where is it happening?
NORTH VIEW, NE63 9XQ Ashington, United Kingdom, 8 North View, Ashington, NE63 9XQ, United Kingdom,Ashington, NorthumberlandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
