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Welcome to our August newsletter!
It’s continued to be a busy month with our youth teams across Wales getting out and about enjoying the wonderful Welsh outdoors. From surfing in Swansea to white water rafting in North Wales, trips to the Senedd and Cardiff Bay boat trips, young people have definitely been given a summer to remember. We’ve also had lots more young and older people staring on our paid work placements via BME Invest projects, and we are also hiring for our All Wales Engagement Programme – so please check out our vacancies page if you’d like to come and work for our fantastic team.
Hoping you are all refreshed for September!!
Rocio Cifuentes
EYST CEO
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EYST is a charity for the people, supported by the people and we need your help to continue the work we do! If you are able to donate to support our work please do - you could help transform another person's life!
Link Here: https://bit.ly/3Bcv6ua
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THE HEART OF EYST - THE CORE SERVICES TEAM
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It's been another busy month for the Core Services Team! Hina has joined our Team as our Homework Club Assistant and Shazia has joined in her role on the 'Telling Our Own Stories' project. This is a brand new community journalism story project funded Lankelly Chase and Clwstr Creu working in partnership with Bureau Local - more on this next month! There are several vacancies across the organisation in a variety of roles, for more info please see http://www.eyst.org.uk/vacancies.php.
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BME SPORT CYMRU - Kicking it across Wales!
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The summer has been amazing for outside sporting activity and August, in particular, has been a great month of activities for young people and families. Staying active, having fun and learning new skills has never been more fun or more important for young people across Wales and BME Sport Cymru has been trying its best to put up as many diverse activities as possible. Many of our young people tried sailing for the very first time, thoroughly enjoying and whilst others have been getting involved in cycling play sessions at BikeAbility Wales. Contact Basit@eyst.org.uk to find out more. To our young people, volunteers and parents ... THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR A GREAT SUMMER!
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BME Invest - Investing in OUR Future
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It has been another busy month for the BME Invest team, with six new participants starting recently with their various Host Organisations: Ryan is hosted by VividBlock in Swansea, using his Graphic Design skills; Tarek is working at Woodfield Animal Sanctuary on Gower where he is putting his considerable expertise with horses to good use; Hina is supporting the EYST Homework Club which helps young people get support with school work and assistance with those knotty areas of learning; Andrea is working with the BME Invest team writing promotional pieces and supporting the marketing of our Active Inclusion projects; Alicia is working as a marketing support assistant with Friends of Cymru Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia, and Moey is working hard with Tiger Bay Amateur Bay Boxing club ensuring that activities are operating safely to keep as many young people as active as possible.
We have more vacancies closing soon for Swansea and Cardiff! Check here http://www.eyst.org.uk/vacancies.php for what’s on offer! If you are interested in hosting a paid placement (16 hours/week for 16 weeks) or are interested in finding out more about the Active Inclusion Strand 2 placements funded by ESF (European funds) and managed by WCVA please contact Deborah@eyst.org.uk or follow @WCVA_AIF #EUfundsCymru
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Splish, Splash, Splosh with the Belonging Project!
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August has been a busy month, helping the Belonging Project with their Summer of Fun. Whether that was bread making, sword building, and clay modelling with Bushcraft, or mosaic creating and silk painting with Arts and Crafts, the fun never stopped!
It has been great to see so many people stepping out of their comfort zone to making new friends and taking part in activities they had never done before. It is even more amazing to see the parents taking part and enjoying quality family time within the project.
The Belonging Project have had great turnouts this year, connecting people with the community. Well done team and to our wonderful clients who took part, trying new things and learning new skills, we wish you a great summer and hope to see you soon!
HAVE A GREAT SUMMER! STAY SAFE!
Contact Paul@eyst.org.uk for more info
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Lastly, EYST 's Swansea is excited to announce the re-opening of 3x weekly drop-ins for young people in Swansea in September. Please check out the poster below for more info and contact details for the Drop-in Leaders for each day! With so many months away from the face to face youth work at our Swansea Drop-in, we hope to start with a fun-packed few weeks with lots of activity, food and support on offer! All happening in a COVID safe environment!
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Newport Youth Futures - Learning and Exploring Together!
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The Newport Youth Futures team has embraced the Summer Holidays with a host of a variety of activities and trips taking place this month. This truly is a Summer of Fun with many memorable moments including many young people travelling on a train for the first time. Our collaboration with the BME CYP team in Newport meant that we could reach out to more vulnerable young people and families making it a memorable Summer for many.
Our young people visited the Senedd and learnt about Welsh Devolution, politics, how to secure their rights and even become part of the Welsh Youth Parliament. A fun cultural boat trip and an opportunity to take part in the funfair attractions also in Cardiff Bay. NYF also arranged bowling, laser zap zone and the Friday Footy Mania this month with over 50 young people in Newport engaged in the activities we’re providing.
Contact Shahinoor@eyst.org.uk to find out more
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Race Alliance Wales - Using Our Platform for Action!
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The momentum hasn't slowed down at all at Race Alliance Wales who've been putting the six new peer researchers to work developing the research design for exploring young people’s experiences and perceptions of policing in Wales project and conducting research interviews about the experiences of racialised people within an organisational culture.
RAW acts as a collaborative space for individuals and organisations to come together and challenge racism in Wales and is seeking a part-time project officer fixed term until January 2022. Working for RAW would include promoting the Alliance, disseminating research outputs and use the research to effectively lobby and push for key policy recommendations. Further information on how to apply is available at http://www.eyst.org.uk/vacancies.php the deadline for applications is 5 PM Monday the 6th September 2021.
Last, but certainly not least, we wish to invite you to the next Race & Equality Cross Party Group.
Invitation to Race & Equality Cross-Party Group
SAVE THE DATE:
Tuesday 28th September 9 -10 AM
• Race Equality First will be presenting a landmark Joint NGO Shadow Report on Racial Inequality in Wales. The report has revealed concerns of 'the scale' of racial inequality in Wales, with police-recorded hate crimes rising. This is an excellent opportunity to find out what is going on in areas of life such as; policing, the criminal justice system, employment and education.
• Update on the Race Equality Action Plan with Jane Hutt MS: Minister for Social Justice.
• Black History Month 2021: An audience with the Senedd.
Please RSVP to info@racealliance.wales so that we may send you the full agenda and online joining details.
Contact info@racealliance.wales for more information.
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Insights from an EYST Newbie!
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As the summer draws to a close and children go back to school we wanted to share some of the experiences, thoughts and feelings of our wonderful youth workers about their experiences during the last month at EYST.
From the start of August, I’ve been engaging with young people through football sessions lead by Basit. The young people preferred for me to join in and play, which I found helped me to build better relationships with them. Now, when most of the attendees see me on the street, they’ll say hello and chat with me even if it's just for 5 minutes. Also, I organised Laserzone for the first Wednesday of the month which was both fun and a great way to get some exercise. Everyone enjoyed it and because of the response, we decided to make it a weekly activity. With the help of my colleague Rumee we've been able to help young boys and girls experiences the fun of laser tag, some for the first time. Within my role, I’ve been able to attend surfing lessons in Caswell beach with Paul, helping to ensure that there was a good staff to young person ratio and spend some great time out of the office with the young people! While at the beach I still had to work, ensuring participants crossed roads safely, helping to carry surfboards, and regular headcounts were only a few of the things that had to be done.
Inbetween activity days, I would help out with one on one meetings, contact clients and keeping in regular contact through messages and phone calls to ensure everyone got the best help possible and all issues were fixed. With the help of Lee, we have a trip to Oakwood planned towards the end of the month, and with the help of Rumee, we’ve filled all the spots. Actually, we had to increase the number of young people for the trip as we had 0so much interest in it! Lastly, Rumee, Basit and I cleaned and cleared out as much of the Drop-In as we could to get it ready for the reopening in September. Needless to say, it's been a hectic August but I've enjoyed every minute of it!
Thank you all for a memorable summer!
Kind regards,
Muhit Rahman
Contact Muhit@eyst.org.uk
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This month, we welcomed Rudina as our crisis project officer and Amy as the front of the house covering the amazing Thanuja and Carlos who have gone on secondment to Welsh Government working on their Refugee Employability Programme Restart. We are very happy to have them both and look forward to settling into the sanctuary team together. We will be continuing to develop the new EYST Sanctuary Hub so that it's ready to welcome clients again very soon. In the meantime, we continue our remote support which is getting even busier with more people coming to Swansea seeking asylum and we have up to 100 sessions a week.
Contact Sophie@eyst.org.uk for more info or follow us on Instagram - “eyst.sanctuaryhub’ check it out!
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BME CYP - Wonderful End to a Wet Summer!
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So this month we’ve been caving, White-water rafting, on a residential trip and swimming too! Thanks to a great partnership with Freedom Leisure and Active Wrexham, we have been connecting families and individuals in need with free swim sessions and lessons. Huge thanks to a Youth Service Strategy Revenue Project which has granted young people in Wrexham a small grant towards trip costs for summer activity, and also to the North East Community Cohesion Team who have approved another small grant towards Gym access for young people and Individuals.
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Some upcoming dates to mention ...
On Wednesday 25th August, children, young people and families will be taking part in a group visit to Powys Castle & Gardens thanks to the National Trust and their Wellbeing Access Pass.
On the 31st of August, we also have a group trip to Xplore! Science Discovery Centre in Wrexham too! AND on Friday 20th August 8 young people embark on a 5 night ‘Getaway Training’ residential to the Anne Matthews Trust in scenic Corris, Powys. Here the group will explore the amazing local natural beauty and attractions and learn about community leadership and development to empower each to tackle local issues for them in their own communities! – More images to come from this amazing residential in next month’s newsletter!
Big shout out to Rolando who is a BME CYP client who has secured a 12-week Internship at the Trust, where he is learning to plan, deliver and evaluate residentials at the venue. The Trust have kindly supported Rolando by allocating funding for educational costs for Rolando's future educational aspirations to become a Paralegal. We must shout out Javier from the Trust who has been an influential mentor throughout!!!!
So many thanks to partners for positive outcomes with individuals and families this month! Let’s keep this going!
Please contact Lee@Eyst.org.uk for more information!
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New Research Library and Communities Directory!
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The All Wales BAME Engagement Programme has been busy behind the scenes this month creating race-specific resources to benefit the whole third sector! The new Research Library and the Directory of Ethnic Minority Community Groups are valuable resources for the Race Community sector, with them, you'll be able to find all the current Welsh-specific data and research as well as the community groups and organisations that deal with a plethora of issues and causes.
Check them out at the links below!
Research Library: http://www.eyst.org.uk/research-on-race-and-equality-in-wales.php
Directory of Ethnic Minority Community Groups: http://www.eyst.org.uk/bame-map.php
Also, the All Wales BAME Engagement Programme is looking for more staff to join our team! There are currently two vacancies for a Programme Manager and a Policy Officer and we do so hope that you apply! This is the perfect job for anyone interested in policy with a passion for helping to create a diverse Wales. More information on the role and how to apply is available here at - http://www.eyst.org.uk/vacancies.php and the deadline is 5 PM Monday 6th September 2021. Good Luck!
Contact judy@eyst.org.uk for more information!
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Gwobrau Dewi Sant 2022
Rydyn ni angen eich help chi i ddod o hyd i enillwyr nesaf Gwobrau Dewi Sant – gwobrau cenedlaethol Cymru.
Dyma’ch cyfle chi i gydnabod y bobl arbennig sy’n gwneud Cymru’n wych!
Mae enwebiadau ar gyfer Gwobrau 2022 yn cau ar 21ain Hydref.
I enwebu, ewch i wefan Gwobrau Dewi Sant
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St David Awards 2022
We need your help to find the next winners of the St David Awards – the national awards of Wales.
This is your chance to recognise the exceptional people that make Wales great!
Nominations for the 2022 Awards close on 21st October.
To nominate someone, go the St David Awards website - https://gov.wales/st-david-awards/nominate
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