Wednesday 25 November 2009

Young Film Fund (UK)

First Light Movies provides grants to projects that enable young people to participate in all aspects of film productions. The funding is available to community and voluntary groups that work with young people aged between 5 and 18. Grants are available through three funding streams.
The Studio Awards provides grants of up to £30, 000 for between two and four films of up to 10 minutes.

The Script Awards provides grants of up to £3,000 for script writing projects that team young people with script professionals.

The Pilot Awards provides grants of up to £5,000 for one short film of up to five minutes in duration.

The next closing date for all three programmes is the 19th January 2010. For further information: www.firstlightonline.co.uk/funding/young-film-fund/

Tuesday 24 November 2009

Widow's Might


Frontier Youth Trust have an exciting new Project:

We are just about to nationally launch our new StreetSpace project to engage young people on the street and in the community and we could really do with your help to make this possible.

For the last 3 years we have been piloting StreetSpace and it has been really effective at engaging young people and exploring new ways to grow church with them. The project has been welcomed by young people, the police, councils and local Christians and we have been inundated with requests to start similar projects across the UK.

So to make StreetSpace happen nationally, please could I ask you for a small amount of time and money! In these challenging economic times, we have become very aware of the value of small things and the impact a widows mite (Luke 21) donation can make.

If you could turn on your phone and text the word MITE to 82540 it would be really appreciated. Texts cost £1.50 (plus your standard network charge) and over a pound will go directly to the StreetSpace initiative.

My second request would be to ask you to pass this email onto all your contacts, put the information in your church newsletters, on your web sites or anywhere else that you would be able to in order to help us make this dream a reality. Appreciate it.

If you would like to know how StreetSapce works and how it might be able to work with you, please drop me a line. Apologies if you get this email more than once and do let me know if you would prefer not to receive news update emails.

Many thanks and happy forthcoming advent ....

Nigel
For donations from outside the UK or for larger donations to the 'MITE' initiative, please go to: http://www.widowsmite.org.uk/ You will then be able to make a donations to FYT and pay by paypal, credit or debit card.
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PS Please text 'mite' to 82540 to enable FYT to launch

36 StreetSpace projects working with young people

on the streets over the next 3 years. Each text costs

£1.50 plus your standard network charge for a text.

Thanks to ASBOJESUS for the cool cartoon too.


Frontier Youth Trust, Unit 306f, The Big Peg, 120 Vyse Street, Jewellery

Quarter, Birmingham. B18 6NF. Charity No.: 1059328, Company No.: 3264908

Wednesday 18 November 2009

Band with no Name in Worcester

Bible Society has details here of The Band with No Name at Christopher Whitehead School on Friday 11th December from 7pm.

Tuesday 17 November 2009

FLOSS FUNDING

County Council's FLOSS scheme enters its fourth and final year
Teenagers from across Worcestershire are being urged by the County Council to get applying for its fourth - and final year - of Funding Lots of Super Stuff (FLOSS) cash.

Grants of up to £2,500 will once again be available for 13 to 19-year-olds to apply for from November 9 until February 12, 2010.

More than £990,000 has so far been awarded to young people throughout the county since the FLOSS grant-giving scheme was launched by the council's youth support team. Details of the county-wide allocation to date is as follows:

Bromsgrove £40,653
Malvern Hills £32,509
Redditch £33,193
Worcester £37,118
Wychavon £46,700
Wyre Forest £39,053
Councillor Liz Eyre, Worcestershire County Council's Cabinet Member for Children and Young People (12-19 years), said: "This the last chance for young people in Worcestershire to make a difference to the community they live in by applying for a slice of FLOSS funding.

"Many parts of the county have already widely benefited from FLOSS and we're keen for this to be the year that we receive a wider variety of applications than ever before as it's the final year we can use this funding to turn young people's ideas into reality."

FLOSS is aimed at giving 13 to 19-year-olds the chance to provide their local area with activities and projects their peers will benefit from. The final decision as to where the money will be allocated will be made by the FLOSS Management Group, which comprises of 12 young people from around Worcestershire.

People interested in finding out more should email floss@worcestershire.gov.uk or call Pam Hill on 01905 779893 or Kirsty Fraser on 01905 827489.

Monday 9 November 2009

Anger Management

What? Enterprise is offering FREE anger management support sessions to unemployed 19-25 year olds in the Borough.

Currently sessions are planned for Monday 23rd November in Dudley and Monday 14th December in Stourbridge - venues to be advised.

The sessions will be run by Martin Hogg, who has a wealth of experience in helping people with their anger, runs successful anger management groups and trains on managing anger.

Please get in touch if you have anyone you think would benefit from this support. Alternatively, if you have a group of young people needing support, we may be able to arrange separate one-off events. Again, this would be free of charge, but must be completed within the next couple of months.

For more information, please contact The What? Centre on 01384-379992.

Promoting Well Being in Dudley

There is a small grant fund available for those of you working in Dudley for groups which promote mental well-being. If you are working with a youth or community group in this area there is a lunch on 25th November to advise you on applications. Ask me for more details.