Youth Club

Buckland Newton Youth Club is a new

initiative run voluntarily by villagers

for the young people of the village. It

aims to provide a safe and stimulating

environment for 11-16 year olds to

meet, relax and have the opportunity to

join in a variety of structured activities

including music sessions, film nights,

bake-offs and sport events. The club

will also endeavour to foster strong

links with all age groups within the

village through organising special

events for the community.

Buckland Newton Youth Club meets on a Tuesday evening between 18.30 and 20.00 in Buckland Newton Village Hall, during term time. If you have or are a young person who would like to join Buckland Newton Youth Club, you must be in Yrs 6 - Yr 12 from Buckland Newton and the surrounding parishes, and is run by local volunteers . Some additional help to run the Buckland Newton Youth Club is needed. Could you help? Please get in touch with Kate Parish on 07860 582362 / 01300 345497 or e-mail BucklandNewtonYC@gmail.com Congratulations to Buckland Newton Youth Club volunteer team who have been nominated for a BBC Make a Difference Award. It has been a busy few weeks (as usual) for the Youth Club. Members have enjoyed taking part in an archery session, time on the Parish Field and a visit from "Fowl Play" a Samba Band based in Shroton - who appropriately dress as chickens! Work on the Youth Club's allotment is also continuing a-pace. Led by Mark Chappell, inspired by Francis Tophill of Gardeners World fame, and with windows donated from a local residence the older Youth Club members have been working to build a greenhouse. An original design it is hoped the greenhouse will provide additional space to grow vegetables or even a vine! The young people will be planting out their vegetables over the next few weeks that they started in the polytunnel and earthing up their potatoes. If we can keep the rabbits at bay, maybe we can get some exhibits for the County Show? Looking forward to the next six weeks, in particular the Wild Camp at the Dutch Barn at the end of Landscome-Lane and the end of term trip to Dorset Water Park. Our summer programme is action packed and I'm looking forward to seeing the sunrise over Buckland Newton at the Wild Camp (as long as it doesn't rain). With so many young people now attending the Youth Club, the volunteers took the decision to split the Club into two groups. Yrs 6 & 7 now meet between 1800 - 1930 and Yrs 8 + meet between 1930 - 2100. Whilst there has been some concern expressed about this decision, the volunteers felt it was no longer safe or manageable to have 40 young people all in the Hall together, particularly when the older group are so much bigger physically than some of the Yr 6s. Whenever possible, the Youth Club will meet together for joint activities such as the Halloween Party and the drama workshops/pantomime, but for Club nights in the Hall the group will be broken into two. Following its music project with BSharp in October, Buckland Newton Youth Club now has a video (well two actually) and a theme tune! You can find them both here on the Buckland Newton Community website. Click here for Video 1 and here for Video 2 and see what they have done. With a growing membership adult help is always greatly appreciated, and one of our regular volunteers is about to commence Dorset Council's free youth work training. This is a great example of how volunteering can provide the opportunity to learn new skills and provide free accredited training, that can lead to paid employment in the future. Regular volunteers will be required to have a DBS check. Kate Parish

Buckland Newton Community Website

in the heart of rural Dorset