Juggling your Environment !
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Part of the Forgotten Landscape Project bid to the
heritage lottery fund is to carry out public
consultation as to what projects they would enjoy
and participate in.
We invited young people to
participate in a workshop where they could have
their say about project ideas. We advertised the
event by flyering on stilts at Abersychan
Comprehensive School and putting up posters around
Blaenavon.
Twenty one young people came to
the Blaenavon Workmens hall on 17th Jan 08. Steven
Rogers the project officer gave a short presentation
about the Forgotten Landscape project. Followed by
the workshop during which potential project ideas
were explained to the young people by workshop
facilitators from a wide range of youth services. |
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The young people then filled out a questionnaire telling
us whether they liked the project ideas. The young people
were also given an opportunity to share their own project
ideas. The workshop facilitators tried to capture the
enormous flow of ideas that came from the young people by
furiously writing them down on flip charts.
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After the consultation, a workshop
tutor from the Nofitstate Circus showed the young
people how to juggle, spin plates, diabolos, devil
sticks, stilt walk and ride a unicycle. A children’s
buffet was also provided by Shirley from the
Workmens Hall. All in all everyone enjoyed the
event.
All the comments, ideas and
questionnaires will help support the application to
the Heritage Lottery Fund and has given us a clear
idea of the events program that will encourage young
people to take part. |
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A big thank you to:- the
Nofitstate circus tutor and the Workshop
Facilitators: Mick Pierson (full-time youth worker
for Torfaen’s youth service) Katy Wicks (Trainee
Young People’s Forum Worker) Geraint Gillard
(Torfaen Youth Service Project) Joanne Davies (Area
Development Worker Central Torfaen).
Dean Roberts (Fire Service, Sports
development, Adventure Activities Instructor) Tunell
Morgan (Sports development Adventure Activities
Instructor) Sianne Morgan (CSV Consulting Manager -
Community Service Volunteers) Alvin Nicholas
(Countryside Warden for Torfaen County Borough
Council) |
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Youth Projects Workshop Event - Project
Suggestions
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1. Plays, Pageants, Arts
Competitions Working with a real
theatre company and artists, recreate the past life
of the town and the area · Help write plays and act
in them · Be part of a son et lumiere · Art and
writing competitions · Viaduct races · Chartist
march · Sculpture workshops · Choir festival and
song writing competition.
2. Caring for the Countryside
Help look after the countryside,
its animals, plants and historic features · Bracken
bashing · Dry stone walling · Caring for ponds ·
Wildlife spotting and recording · Learn about bee
keeping · Tree planting and looking after wildlife
areas · Making animal shelters , bird boxes, otter
holts, etc · Volunteer youth rangers · Cleaner
Communities Task Force · Running a weather station ·
Create and manage a web site. |
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3. Understanding Heritage
Guided tours, walks and mounting biking safaris ·
Mountain bike through the landscape and stop to look at
wildlife and history · Short walks to special places with a
guide to explain the history and wildlife · Foraging for
free food and learning how to cook it (eat at a local
restaurant and learn from a top chef) · Whinberries and
water, scientific study · Oral history, interviewing old
people to ask them about the past · Understanding Welsh,
place names and language · Make a video of a project, loan
video cameras to participants, provide facility and help to
edit the video.
4. Outdoor adventure activities
A range of activities that combine exciting activities
with learning. · Orienteering between historical land marks
in the landscape eg. The smoke stack · Camping and survival
skills in the style of period of during iron works. ·
Mountain biking courses learning about the history of the
landscapes and showing the damage off road motorcycling does
to the landscape and the benefits of mountain biking
instead. · Rock climbing teaching about geology of rocks and
geological back round of the iron works · Canoeing learning
about the history of the canals and lakes · Pony treking,
learning about the history of the landscapes · Mountain fire
safety home fire safety, deliberate mountain fires and the
damage they cause and road traffic awareness.
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