Category Archives: Craigavon LPG

Issue 119 – Southern Area FYI – 8th February 2024

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Welcome to Issue 119 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

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This week is Children’s Mental Health Week and Safer Internet Day 2024 took place on Tuesday (6th February). We have included information, support and resources in these key areas and extend our thanks to those who have submitted a lot of fantastic materials.

On February 7th we launched our new resource called ‘Take A Healthy Selfie’ (See Page 3). This provides key links to services and support for children and young people with their emotional wellbeing and mental health. We also have information for parents/caregivers and school and youth staff to help support their children and young people.  The resource is free and available electronically and in print. Please contact us to order your copies and learn more about this campaign.

Locality Development Team (Southern Trust Area)

TAK£500+ Still time to apply before midnight 18 January

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Tak£500+ Your Community, Your Voice, Your Choice is an exciting opportunity for everyone who lives in the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough to come up with a creative idea through a Participatory Budgeting (PB) process.

PB offers a real opportunity to empower local people and actively involve them in decision making and the distribution of support within their local areas. Communities can apply for up to £1000 for a project that they think will benefit their area – and best of all, it is the local residents who decide which projects receive the funding.

Ideas must be based around the ‘Take 5 Ways of Wellbeing’. These are five simple steps to help maintain and improve your wellbeing on a daily basis. They are:

  1. Connect with people around you
  2. Be Active in some way each day
  3. Take Notice of the world around you and how you are feeling
  4. Keep Learning by trying something new
  5. Give by doing something nice for someone else

There are still a number of online information sessions happening in January 2024.  The sessions offer an opportunity for you to hear about the project and connect with other groups in the borough this will last approximately 1 hour. 

  • Tuesday January 9th 2024, 10am – 11am
  • Wednesday January 10th 2024, 2pm – 3pm
  • Wednesday January 10th 2024, 7pm – 8pm

To register to attend one of the above sessions please email communityplanning@armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk or call 0300 0300 900 specifying which session you would like to attend.   You can also contact a member of the PB working group to get help with your application all contact details on the Tak£500+ Section of the council website.

You can apply for the fund online on the council website before the closing date of Midnight 18 January 2024 by following this link  www.armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk/Take500plus or request a hard copy by emailing communityplanning@armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk

TAKE500 Guidance notes

TAKE500 Application form

 

Issue 117 – Southern Area FYI – 11 January 2024

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Welcome to Issue 117 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information), our first edition of ‘FYI’ of 2024.

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The vast array of information included reflects the fantastic work that continues across the Southern Trust Area and we are always happy to include all relevant submission (See criteria for submissions on Page 71).

 For those who attend our locality Planning Groups, we have listened to preferences given by members and will continue to alternate all our meetings between Zoom and face-to-face. For those who do not attend, see the flyer on Page 4 to find out more about how our meetings work and how to get involved. Just contact us, if you have any queries.

Locality Development Team (Southern Trust Area)

Issue 116 – Southern Area FYI – 7 December 2023

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Welcome to Issue 116 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information)

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Welcome to Issue 116 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

As our last ‘FYI’ for 2023, we thank you for your support, readership and submissions of information throughout the year. It has been another challenging year, in many ways, however this demonstrates the need to support everything and everyone working in our communities for the benefit of children, young people and families.

We extend our invitation to all practitioners and volunteers to attend any of our LPG meetings and have included a calendar for all our 6 LPG meeting dates in 2024 on Page 3.

Wishing you a very restful festive period, best wishes for the new year, and we’ll see you again in 2024!

Locality Development Team (Southern Trust Area)

Issue 115 – Southern Area FYI – 23 November 2023

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Welcome to Issue 115 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information)

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As the festive season is nearly upon us, we are very keen to receive notification on services and support available for children, young people and families in the Southern Area.  As you will see on the next slide, Action for Children are collating such information to support young carers across the Christmas period. If your service covers the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Council Area, please read through the slide and send any relevant information to Action for Children ASAP.

 You will also see on page 4 a new updated CYPSP Cost of Living Resource, which gives a lot of support across Northern Ireland, with a section for our own geographic area too.

The final ‘FYI’ issue of 2023 will go out on Thursday 7th December, so please send all relevant information for inclusion in good time.

Locality Development Team (Southern Trust Area)