Issue 118 – Southern Area FYI – 25th January 2024

Welcome to Issue 118 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

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As you may already be aware, Children’s Mental Health Week 2024 is taking place from 5th to 11th February and Safer Internet Day 2024 is on Tuesday 6th February. With these important campaigns in mind, we are calling for submissions (as well as the usual information) which are relevant in these areas for the next edition of ‘FYI’. These can be resources, information, support services events and links and will be included in our special edition, with a focus on children’s mental health and safer internet use, coming out on Thursday 8th February.

Looking forward to your submissions!

 Locality Development Team (Southern Trust Area)

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

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

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)

School Uniform Recycling Toolkit 2023

 

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The Southern Area Locality Planning Team have produced an Infographic to report on the impact of this year’s School Uniform Recycling Toolkit. This free resource was produced to provide a user friendly, free, practical guide for schools and community groups to use in order to hold a successful school uniform recycling scheme. We provided checklists for discussions, templates to use, tips which shared good practice, and evaluation forms which we collated to produce individual reports for each initiative.

11 schools and groups used the Toolkit during 2023 and send completed feedback forms to demonstrate the effectiveness of the resource.

We had around 1,250 items donated totalling a value of over £8,000. These items were successfully recycled across the Southern area.

If your school or group is interested in finding out more about this free resource, and how to avail of our support in 2024, please contact Darren  Curtis at localityplanning@ci-ni.org.uk

Issue 116 – Southern Area FYI – 7 December 2023

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)