FEEL GOOD FRIDAY !
Buckinghamshire's Provincial Grand Master, his lovely wife, the Provincial Charity Steward and Freemasonry in the Community Representative spent a fun day with the team from Action4Youth representing the MCF.
The Masonic Charitable Foundation is supporting Action4Youth's Boost programme, a new 5-day initiative especially designed to equip SEND young people aged 16-24 with vital life skills to promote independence and to address the transition from school to adulthood. A package of activities will combine outdoor learning activities that focus on teamwork, communication and leadership skills, with classroom sessions that aim to develop life skills and support independent living. Funding of £59,980 from the Foundation, will support four schools and up to 44 young people (12 per school) per year over three years.
All participants will have SEND and will present a diverse range of needs, including learning, sensory and physical disabilities. They will likely display very challenging behaviour, some will also have other medical conditions and all will require additional adult support. We know from our existing programmes, such as our crime intervention project, Breakout, that many of the young people participating in the project will be experiencing additional disadvantage such as child poverty, domestic violence and exposure to criminality, with a plethora of different issues across their school and home life.
Without intervention, the project beneficiaries are likely to face multiple challenges during the transition to adulthood, with a report from ADASS, a charity to support those working in adult social care, outlining the issues for SEND young people which include young people 'falling through the cracks' between children’s services and adult social care services, with opportunities to foster independence and plan for future challenges - such as securing employment & housing - frequently missed. A recent report by Ofsted and the CQC found that too many young people with SEND faced a ‘cliff edge’ in support as they reach 18 with very little planning for their transition to adult life. Boost will address these issues and will equip participants with vital new life skills to support the transition to adulthood.
Action4Youth will deliver the project throughout the South-East, with a focus on supporting participants from areas that have high levels of deprivation and significant child poverty numbers, such as parts of Slough, Luton and Bedford. Schools will be identified from our extensive network, or will directly approach us to request the programme, with participants selected by the schools as those pupils most in need of the initiative.
If you would like to be part of a global community that has its roots firmly in the ground in Buckinghamshire, please join us by following this link: https://buckspgl.org/join
The Masonic Charitable Foundation is supporting Action4Youth's Boost programme, a new 5-day initiative especially designed to equip SEND young people aged 16-24 with vital life skills to promote independence and to address the transition from school to adulthood. A package of activities will combine outdoor learning activities that focus on teamwork, communication and leadership skills, with classroom sessions that aim to develop life skills and support independent living. Funding of £59,980 from the Foundation, will support four schools and up to 44 young people (12 per school) per year over three years.
All participants will have SEND and will present a diverse range of needs, including learning, sensory and physical disabilities. They will likely display very challenging behaviour, some will also have other medical conditions and all will require additional adult support. We know from our existing programmes, such as our crime intervention project, Breakout, that many of the young people participating in the project will be experiencing additional disadvantage such as child poverty, domestic violence and exposure to criminality, with a plethora of different issues across their school and home life.
Without intervention, the project beneficiaries are likely to face multiple challenges during the transition to adulthood, with a report from ADASS, a charity to support those working in adult social care, outlining the issues for SEND young people which include young people 'falling through the cracks' between children’s services and adult social care services, with opportunities to foster independence and plan for future challenges - such as securing employment & housing - frequently missed. A recent report by Ofsted and the CQC found that too many young people with SEND faced a ‘cliff edge’ in support as they reach 18 with very little planning for their transition to adult life. Boost will address these issues and will equip participants with vital new life skills to support the transition to adulthood.
Action4Youth will deliver the project throughout the South-East, with a focus on supporting participants from areas that have high levels of deprivation and significant child poverty numbers, such as parts of Slough, Luton and Bedford. Schools will be identified from our extensive network, or will directly approach us to request the programme, with participants selected by the schools as those pupils most in need of the initiative.
If you would like to be part of a global community that has its roots firmly in the ground in Buckinghamshire, please join us by following this link: https://buckspgl.org/join