1. Y OUTH N EWS L OCAL May
2011
Useful Contacts:
In this issue:
VYS Devon ♦Events/Information ♦Funding/Resources ♦Training
YFC Centre DEVON YOUTH SERVICE CONTACT LIST
Retail Park Close This gives details of youth work staff and is available on the web at
Marsh Barton Road http://www.devonyouthservice.org.uk/contact.html
Exeter
EX2 8LG Information/Events
01392 250976
admin@vysdevon.org.uk As you may know VYS has had its funding withdrawn by the
www.vysdevon.org.uk Local Authority Youth Service. However, we have reserve
funds and will have new opportunities to make bids for
Devon Youth Service funding from other sources in the future. Therefore, VYS
Queen's House wants to ensure that its services are focused upon the
Little Queen Street wishes and the needs of its members, and of the voluntary
Exeter youth sector generally.
EX4 3LJ
01392 380261 With this in mind, we are consulting with member
Yvette.soukal@devon.gov.uk organisations asking them what services from VYS will be
www.devonyouthservice.org.uk the most valuable to their organisation in the future.
Capturing this information will be invaluable to us in
Local Youth Service determining our planning for the future. We have also
Contacts: organised briefing sessions with those member
East Devon organisations when they will be given the opportunity to
01404 813195 explain in more detail the sort of services required to
Exeter support their important work with young people.
01392 662665
Mid Devon VACANCIES: Groundwork South West has vacancies for
01884 252642 16-18yr olds to do an Environmental Conservation
North Devon Apprenticeship. Apprentices will gain an NVQ level 2 in
01271 343762 Environmental Conservation; key skills level 2, First Aid at Work
South Hams and a brush-cutter certificate. To apply or for further information,
01822 613522 e-mail viv.roberts@groundwork.org.uk
Teignbridge
01626 369283 JOB HUNTING? Visit the VYS website which is regularly
Torridge updated http://www.vysdevon.org.uk/page/jobs
01271 388169
West Devon Extreme Coasteering are North and South Devon's Coasteering
01822 613522 specialists. Coasteering is the perfect outdoor activity for groups
and their fully qualified team will take you along an adventurous
Duke of Edinburgh’s coastal route where you will climb, scramble, traverse, swim, go
Award through caves & crevasses, get washed around in the swell, jump
2 Fore Street and freefall your way to an adrenaline pumping time. They
Moretonhampstead operate from Croyde bay in North Devon and from Ansteys Cove
Newton Abbot in Torquay in South Devon. It costs from £25 per person with a
TQ13 8LL minimum group booking of 6. For details ring 07816169011,
01647 440983 email info@extremecoasteering.co.uk or see
dofe.award@devon.gov.uk www.extremecoasteering.co.uk

2. Information/Events cont’d Funding & Other Resources con’d
North Devon All Starz will be presenting the Prince’s Trust Community Cash Awards –
regional premiere of Peter Pan the Musical. If grants of up to £3,000 are available for young
you know of any young people aged 8-23 who people to help set up a project that will benefit
would like to be part of this exciting production their community. See www.princes-trust.org.uk/
the auditions at The Park Community School, communitycash
Barnstaple are on 27 May 6.30pm-9pm. For
further information on auditors, the show or the
BBC Children in Need are inviting registered
group then please contact:- charities/not-for-profit organisations working
tolleyangell@yahoo.co.uk with disadvantaged children and young people
18 years and under to apply for grants. Next
31 May Free Exmoor Activities - Ashcombe deadline is 15 July.
Big Adventure. Visit the heart of Exmoor on http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/grants/general_gr
this free, all-day family event. For details ants.shtml
contact David Rolls on 01398 322164 or email
DRolls@exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk Health and safety made simple is a new
section to the Health and Safety Executive's
2 June FREE Working together to safeguard website - http://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-
children in Devon – NEW DATE. This safety/index.htm. It gives the necessary basics
interactive event will build knowledge, and links for more resources and key issues.
confidence and techniques to improve the
safeguarding of children and young people. Charitable Status: A Practical Handbook -
www.saferdevonchild.org for details/to book. This provides straightforward explanations of
what a charity is and how it should operate. A
31 July - Following on from last year’s must for charities and would-be charities, their
successful ‘Braunton Wheels’ event, Calvert trustees, staff and advisors
Trust Exmoor are once again planning this http://www.dsc.org.uk/Publications/Law/@7808
event. Braunton Recreation Ground in the ?dm_i=6S7,4UEU,N89OL,F1Y6,1
Centre of the village is the venue (10.30 am).
For more information call 01598 763221. Training Information
Funding & Other Resources DACVS Learning Programme: For
information on all courses see
Sport for You – This grants programme is http://www.dacvs.org.uk/learning-
designed to support community and amateur programme-2010-2011.html or contact your
sports clubs across the country. Grants local CVS.
awarded on a monthly basis.
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/amateur 8 October 2011 - FREE VYS (Devon) Finance
/8281316/A-1000-amateur-sports-club-grant- Workshop – Exeter (9.30am–1.30pm)
could-be-yours.html Following on from the success of the last
Finance Workshop, VYS are delighted to be
Claude and Margaret Pike Charity makes able to offer organisations another chance to
grants almost exclusively to organisations and brush up on those bookkeeping skills. There
individuals in Devon. Whilst the beneficial area will be a focus on recording and reporting
is Devon, the current policy of the Trustees is financial information and what needs doing at
to focus on organisations and causes within the year end. To book your FREE place phone
‘travel to work areas’ of the WBB ball clay and 01392 250976 and ask for a booking form.
china clay operations (ergo Newton Abbot).
Applications in writing to John D Pike,
Youth News Local is produced by VYS Devon.
Correspondent and Trustee, The Claude and
Contact Mark, Anthea or Juliet - 01392 250976
Margaret Pike Charity, Dunderdale Lawn, e-mail: admin@vysdevon.org.uk
Penshurst Road, Newton Abbot, TQ12 1EN. Or visit our website www.vysdevon.org.uk