Youth Led Grants Programme 2019/20 – Successful Projects

Project name	YP Benefited	Lead Provider	Activity	Area	Amount allocated
Team Domenica	50	Extratime	An enrichment Project which helps young people with learning disabilities in Brighton and Hove access new activities. It will run each afternoon and allows young people to try new activities including drama, art, drumming, table tennis, dance, cricket, cycling and yoga.	Citywide	£4,000.00
Young Carers Project	120	HKP	A programme of fun and exciting activities for young carers, the aim of developing peer relationships, that give young carers a vibrant social life whilst also developing broader friendships. Includes respite ti that develop skills and aspirations.	Hangleton and Knoll	£3,564.00
Art in Mind	60 plus 500 indirectly	BYC	A diverse peer-led group run by young people aged 13 – 25 who have all experienced mental health issues themselves. The group uses art therapy techniques to help people cope with mental health problem. They will make a book called ‘Never Judge a Book by its Cover’, which would be curated and filled with pieces of art by the YP to campaign to change how society views mental health	Citywide	£3,230.00
Youth Club Residential	14	BYC	Trips for Brighton Youth Club, including a residential to the Isle of Wight.	Central	£3,734.00
Step Out	165	HKP	Step Out is a volunteering programme for young people age 13 to 19 years old, who might find getting into volunteering difficult.	West	£4,620.00
B.Game	15 plus 100s more indirectly	BYC	A group of young people who meet to play games and socialise. They will build an arcade machine from scratch which will then we used by the club and other youth groups.	Citywide	£2,725.00
Brighton Table Tennis Club	40	HKP	A Friday night table tennis club at Hangleton Community Centre. This money is to continue this Project and to have an intergenerational weekend tournament at the centre with the 50+ teams that play.	Hangleton and Knoll	£4,000.00
The Deans Youth Project Summer holiday programme	50	TDC	A summer holiday programme for YP in Woodingdean. The programme would be made up of a range of Youth Club sessions, local activities (such as football sessions, zorbing, picnics, beach sessions and cooking sessions) and at least one trip outside of Brighton	Woodingdean	£4,000.00
Fresh G’s Young People’s Centre	10 plus more indirectly	BYC	A safe space from women to come together at the young people’s centre. A 6 weeks course that will celebrate its diversity, encourage development and motivate purposeful action towards fulfilling potential. The second stage of the project will entail the young women drawing on the skills and experiences they gained from the previous 6 weeks programme to create and deliver a separate programme, which they will deliver themselves to other youth groups in Brighton and Hove and the wider community.	Central	£2,400.00
Grub Club	15	Extratime	A cookery project for SEND young people	Citywide	£1,747.00
The Hangleton and Knoll Project – LGBTU workshops	20	HKP	Two workshops delivered by youth group AllSorts around LGBTU issues.	Hangleton and Knoll	£705.00
Amaze – Amazing Futures	20 plus more indirectly	HKP	A workshop to give YP with SEND an opportunity to discuss their future and their hopes and fears for getting a job	Citywide	£995.00
Amaze - Gaming Club	17	Extratime	A monthly ‘Friday Gaming Club’ that will provide technical expertise, gaming stations, screens, games, consoles etc. for SEND YP.	Portslade	£4,750.00
Ustudios	60	HKP	A music production project with Audio Active that helps YP make music and learn about music production	Hangleton and Knoll	£3,720.00
Tarner Community Project - employment	40	BYC	Providing young people with volunteering opportunities: · Initially at a community festival in June 2019 Throughout the summer the TCP will work alongside the young people to arrange specialists to lead a number of workshops in activities and skills they wish to develop · Young people involved will be subject to health and safety and first aid training · Skills learned will then be presented by the young people at a future community event in the autumn	Tarner District and Central Brighton	£4,500.00
BMEYPP Young Adventurers	88	BMEYPP	Trips and adventures for YP at BMEYPP including cultural trips that will enable them to explore their cultural identities and promote positive sense of identity.	Citywide	£4,266.00
BME Identities, Histories and Self Care Project	159	BMEYPP	Various events and activities for BAME YP to explore their cultural identities through learning more about Black Histories and information that they do not get taught in mainstream education, schools and colleges. Includes workshops on drumming, dancing, fashion, arts and a citywide Black History Event	Citywide	£3,450.00
Youth Club holiday activities	40	BYC	\holiday activities for YP including comic con, volleyball and paintballing	Citywide	£805.00
Make up for trans YP	115 plus 100 more indirectly	BYC	Make up workshops specifically for trans or gender questioning YP. These workshops will support young people to design and create make-up and body paint looks for the BYC Drag Race, as well as for young people participating in the YMCADLG Pride Parade float in August 2019.	Central	£4,325.00
BYC Skatepark members	15	BYC	A skateboarding trip to Cornwall	Central	£2,205.00
Whitehawk Bike Workshop	400	TDC	Drop-in bicycle workshops at St David’s Hall in East Brighton every Thursday. Young people can work on their own bikes, help others, get tuition in bike mechanics or have their bike fixed by one of the mechanics.	Whitehawk	£4,500.00
Allsorts Youth Project	30 plus 100s more indirectly	Allsorts	Workshops and support for LGBTU YP including: · The creation of a resource such as a booklet and poster to help others · Music workshop to create listening and teambuilding skills	Citywide	£780.00
B.fest Board	14 plus 250 indirectly	BYC	Support funding the documentation for the festival. · Promotional films to send to funders for the next B.Fest · Artists and performers to have high quality film and photography to their work for their professional portfolios. · Support young film makers to capture the event, shadowing and supporting professional film maker.	Central	£2,070.00
Djing sessions	50	BYC	DJ-ing sessions run at BYC.	Citywide	£960.00
Young People’s Centre	70	BYC	Global Social Club provides opportunities for young people to come together at the YPC and make friends with people different to themselves. Funding for; young people to cook and share food from their countries, going on trips and sharing new experiences together and getting a simple camera and printer to use at GSC and on trip.	Central	£4,500.00
Coldean Youth Group	42	TDC	Residential at an activity centre with focus on drug topics. Because lots of people smoke cannabis and doing other drugs. Youth Worker to help create workshops on drugs. First aid training for everyone in case they are with someone who overdoses.	Coldean	£4,000.00
Saltdean and Rottingdean Youth Club	100	TDC	Football training on the pitches outside and digital activities, such as blogging, photography and film-making are things that the group were most interested in.	Saltdean, Rottingdean, Newhaven and Peacehaven	£4,392.00
TDC – activities	50	TDC	Activities for young people the Whitehawk, Manor Farm and Bristol Estate communities over the summer and half term holidays. The focus will be mostly on free local community based activities such as sports sessions, BBQs and art activities	Whitehawk, Manor Farm and Bristol Estate	£2,880.00
The Deans Youth Project	50	TDC	Music, song writing and production workshops. The hope is that this can become a free-standing session at the youth club where young people can come and learn, create and produce music	Woodingdean	£3,799.00