All smiles at the end of our 5 day residential in Anglesey. Weโve got loads of pictures to share and had a brilliant week with 40 young people! Weโve loved this week- what a team! ๐
#youthwork
What a great looking team we are! As is tradition now, we always get the team together so we can share in celebrating National Youth Work Week - We're proud of our team, we are proud of the work we do in Rochdale Borough - and we are proud to be youthworkers!
#YWW23
We've had a fabulous evening celebrating
#BlackHistoryMonth
tonight.... Young people from across the borough came together to dance, to eat, to learn and have a proper good night! Thanks so much to
@CAS_rochdale
for awesome workshops, food and entertainment
@RochdaleCouncil
Very excited today as we begin our bespoke alternative curriculum offer. A safe place for young people who cant access full time education, preventing involvement in ASB & youth violence, building amazing relationships to offer young people the chance to reach their potential..
We've had an amazing time at our Mayor's Youth Awards event. Well done to the group of young people who organised the event, Sign Along With Us for their performances, everyone who supported the event and most importantly all the nominees and award winners!
#ROCHDALEMYA2022
Our biggest Zoom - tonight we had a full service meeting, it was very different -and it was great (two screens of people in boxes) - discussions, guest speakers (
@GailHopper13
-thank you so much), and a quiz! It's official we are awesome!
#youthwork
@RochdaleCouncil
#reconnect
We're off to the beach today! Our short breaks group from Heywood and Middleton are heading to St Anne's for kite flying, building sand castles and a chippy tea!
#happydays
#shortbreaks
Easter weekend has been different than ever before, but we have had youth workers out all weekend. Walking around the borough, home visits, checking in on our young people, who have in the majority been sticking to the rules, but are now glad to see a friendly knock on the door
We're still here, still working the streets of Rochdale and working with young people. We wont have any open access youth provision yet but we are working with you outside and in our centre in small groups or 1 to 1. We will will continue to evolve as the world does...
Congratualtion to all the candidates in the Children's Champion elections. Our new Children's Champion with 2140 votes is Owen Johnson and Deputy Children's Champion is Erin Pollitt. An amazing 8532 children voted in the election - this is
#YouthVoice
#Youthwork
We had an amazing Young People's Pride in the Park this evening - 70+ came down to our event to celebrate everything LGBT+ . We've all had a brilliant night ! Thanks to
@EarlyBreakUK
and
@TheProudTrust
for joining in the fun!
As we come to the end of national youthwork week, and of shamelessly promoting how fantastic this profession is... our last shout out is to all of us .Happy National Youthwork Week to all the youthworkers working across our Borough
#YWW21
@RochdaleCouncil
We've been working with young people 6 days a week throughout 2018 but now we're taking a well earned break. We will be back for many more fun times in 2019. Seasons greetings to all our young people, partners and twitter followers... be safe
#youthwork
We've been at Central Mosque this evening for our youth service
#Iftar
. Young people and youth workers from across the borough have come together , Muslim and non Muslim to share breaking the fast and to learn more about
#Ramadan
#youthwork
Lots of tweets last night!
#Youthwork
is getting bigger along with
#youthvoice
. There were many subjects covered
#Yesterday
. Can you spot your favourite Youth Service staff member?
Young people from our youth cabinets are off to London! Visiting the capital and our Members of Youth parliaments will be in the House of Commons tomorrow for the annual debate - keep up to date with
@angiemc_rys
and
@Rach31M
will be joining us at something.Great opportunities
Some of our male youth workers have been on Stand By Her training this morning.
An informative session on how we can be allies to women with regards to gender based violence, misogyny, sexual harassment and more
#StandByHer
Wow.... we've popped into the town centre to see our latest visitor Little Amal - what a great impactful piece of art. It makes us reflect on how we welcome other people who have made the journey from Syria or other countries and what kind of welcome we offer those...
Interesting couple of days as we take part in the
@LGAcomms
and
@natyouthagency
pilot for the peer reviews of youth services - and we're the first! Some really good time to reflect and have great conversations about our practice, our partnerships, and our impact in the community
So Friday is
#InternationalWomensDay2019
and we have events on Thursday evening for ALL our young people. one for young women... and a seperate event for young men... both exploring issues relevant to young women... come and join us.... at whichever event you identify with
A flavour of our residential week in Anglesey! This is the culmination of youthwork - building relationships over time, developing and learning from where young people are and then getting to the point where a 5 day adventure together solidifies it all.... this is youthwork!
We went live on our detached street based session... we go live on Instagram each Friday evening ... catch up with our team, find out the highlights of their week and challenge them
@RochdaleCouncil
We have had a fabulous evening at the
@KYPRochdale
Rochdale Diversity Awards celebrating all the fantastic work in our Borough... but to make it extra special WE WON THE COHESION AWARD- so nice to have our work recognised amongst such amazing projects and people!
Youth workers have been out in Rochdale today engaging young people in reflective dialogue at the Palestine/Israel conflict-it's really important that we give young people the space to explore their thoughts of this conflict & we are actively encouraging young people to do this
Last night we had our full service meeting. It was great to come together as a team, learn from each other and new things and catch up with each other.
#youthwork
#team
#bestteamever
A really good detached session today, engaging with young people at a local demonstration in Rochdale. Some great discussions and really positive to see young people sharing their views in a positive and peaceful way...
#voice
#youthwork
We've had a lovely, fun evening tonight with
@NigeriaCommuni4
at our Black History Month event, sharing food, performances and learning with over 100 young people from across the Borough...
Hello Jess here taking over the Youth Service twitter for one tweet ๐
I have been a young person part of the youth service since summer 2018 and all I can say is I've loved every part of it. The youth service is just amazing!
#YWW2023
#YouthWorkWeek
So last week
@GailHopper13
set us a challenge of getting creative with our toast. Here are all the amazing entries we've had thank you to everyone that took part... We patiently await for Gail to announce the winner
#StayHomeStaySafe
#RochdaleYouthie
We have been out in Rochdale this afternoon supporting a Multiagency operation on the trams, around the trams stops and town centre. Engaging young people, checking on their welfare and ensuring they are being safe.
@SaferRochdale
Young people from Rochdale have enjoyed a day out to Blackpool
@Pleasure_Beach
as part of our Easter
#HAF
Programme. Lovely day for it ๐ and not too busy so they got to go on plenty of rides!
#youthwork
... this evening, despite the rain we enjoyed our outdoor cinema with young people in Queens Park in Heywood! The bandstand was a great alternative to the grass! Fantastic day/evening with food for everyone
#HAF2021
@RochdaleCouncil
@YourTrustRdale
Happy national youth work week! Look out for more posts this week from our youth workers about why this week is important and all the different spaces we do youth work in!
@natyouthagency
#YWW23
#rochdaleyouthie
On Freehold tonight,
@jasmin_rys
and Seraphina have been engaging with young people on the kivkpitch and visiting young people across the estate
#detached
#youthwork
Tonight our MYPs, Childrenโs Champion and members of youth cabinet attended a commemoration service at St Chadโs for Queen Elizabeth II. It was an emotional fitting tribute to a wonderful Queen.
We've had some great thought provoking training today about a
#traumainformed
approach... it's something we do well... there is always room for improvement in all our practice - but, good, anti discriminatory youth work practice means that we are well on the right path
#ACES
We've had a busy weekend in our central Rochdale wards helping to distribute masks and spread the infomation of how we will together reduced the infection rate. More masks to hand out this week across the borough..
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week with this years theme being kindness. Kindness goes a long way and it's important to be kind to yourself and others for positive mental health. We'll be posting about
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
throughout the week
#KindnessMatters
#BeKind
Absolutely thrilled to announce that our garden at moss st has received a level 4-thriving itโs your neighbourhood award this year. Our young people and youth-workers have worked so hard to make the garden a wonderful space to be ๐
#youthwork
#rochdaleyouthie
Rochdale is great! We've had the pleasure of being at the opening event tonight, seeing the amazing transformation of Rochdale Town Hall! It's a great time to be in Rochdale
Tonight we had our childrenโs champion results event. It was a brilliant event. Well done to all 8 finalists, you are all superstars. Congratulations to Grace who is this years childrenโs champion and Hashim who is deputy childrenโs champion!
#youthwork
#voice
We're out over the weekend... and we will be wearing masks whilst we are out in public . Come on Rochdale let's reduce the rate of the
#coronavirus
and get back on track
#WearMask
#rochdaleyouthie
Our SEND ambassadors have had a great day at the
@RochdaleCouncil
#FeelGoodFamilyPicnic
today at Falinge Park - great atmosphere, loads of young people and families - superb event!
Today we invited some guests to celebrate the achievements of our supportive education programme in Rochdale. The project is for young people at risk of serious youth violence, we focus on building trusted relationships and celebrating achievements of all young people
#youthwork
We had a great time doing the fun run at
@RochdaleHalf
today. 50+ young people from the youth service took part and hopefully we'll have even more next year! We'll done to everyone taking part in the runs and organisers - lovely atmosphere as always!
In light of the DfE consultation on its Guidance for Schools and Colleges: Gender Questioning Children - please feel reassured from us that if you come to one of our sessions we will use your chosen pronouns and we will be a safe space where you can explore your gender identity
It's been a great week of
#youthwork
across the borough, detached youth work sessions working with young people in safe risk taking, packed open access youth clubs with STEM, food growing and cooking, busy sports sessions.. Young people in Rochdale are loving getting involved..
We're wishing our friend and colleague
@RYSjamshed
the best luck and safe travels and he takes on his latest challenge as he heads to Nepal to the tackle the Anapurna Circuit... we will keep you updated on his journey
Good morning, Our
#MYPs
2023 Henry Leahy & Emilia Wakeman are up bright and early, They're heading to
#LONDON
to visit the House of Commons, where they'll be debating on free school meals for the 'Food for Learning' campaign ๐ฝ๏ธ
#FutureLeaders
#HouseofCommons
@RochdaleYouthie
Our message to young people this weekend ๐ We will be out over the weekend so you may see us out and about, give us a wave, say hello from your doorstep, but stay at home. If you need to talk or are worried about something then please talk to us.
What a fabulous evening for our young people in Rochdale to celebrate LGBT history month . We were joined by
@TheProudTrust
@gmpolice
with performances from drag queens Viola and Nikki Rush, bingo, crafts, glitter- thanks to everyone who came down to support!
@RochdaleCouncil
Here it is... we are upping the game this week, time to get your moves on.. we are on a dance challenge this week so show us your best moves and help us make our best vid yet....
#dancechallenge
#moveit
#wowyoucandance
#youthwork
let's make it the best yet!
This evening we took a last minute delivery of 50 packed lunches, after an evening of rallying round, we have made sure they have all been allocated and got to the right children and young people.. We hope that
#NoChildGoesHungry
in
#Rochdale
and we will help to get that food out
We had a great time at Darnhill Festival. Joined the parade on bikes that young people created artwork for and took part in loads of fun activities which included design ideas for some murals on the estate. A fantastic event with a great atmosphere as always!๐
@CartwheelArts
Whoโs looking forward to the fun run tomorrow? We are! Hereโs our video on what not to do at a fun run.. see you tomorrow! ๐ฅณ
@RochdaleHalf
@RochdaleCouncil
Detached Youth Workers are tonights Champions of Youth Work, meeting young people in parks, on streets, at bus stations - in fact wherever young people choose to be - we get to know young people and then see where the relationship goes
#YWW21
#youthwork
Youthwork isn't just fun and games (or ping-pong!) .... there is a lot of prep and planning (and sorting store cupboards) that goes into our work....
#YouthWorkWeek
#nyww23
#YouthWork
As three significant religious festivals all come at the same time this year, we thought we'd take some time to celebrate together and share commonalities... the evening includes a community
#Iftaar
- come join us and learn together
#Easter
#Passover
#Ramadan
Youth workers out in Rochdale Town Centre today, discussing young people's rights, explaining about the demo that was happening in town and supporting partners
@gmpolice
@GMPRochdale
Well we had a great night at the
#AceStaffAwards18
tonight... we were shortlisted in 3 catagories... proud if the work we do with yoing people... and special well done to Nadeem our
#rochdale
youthworker who won the community action award...
It's National Youth Work Week, a chance to celebrate everything that is amazing about our profession and the young people we work with. This week we're going to share with you what
#youthwork
means to us, and the fantastic stuff we do across our borough.
@RochdaleCouncil
#YWW18
@AndrewCookHMI
Ok
@RochdaleYouthie
and
@cabinet_rys
- here is your week 2 challenge! How creative can you be with a slice of toast? Please donโt go out to buy food colouring - doesnโt count as essential! Be more creative and Iโm happy to judge the best on Tuesday. May even be a little prize
It's the start of
#Ramadan
which means we've added some later detached youth work sessions in Rochdale for the month - we'll be available for young people until 11pm
We're stocked up! A great partnership across the borough has brought us 2000 activity packs ready for HAF Easter programme in addition to the face to face sessions we will be delivering
@Link4Life
@CartwheelArts
@RochdaleCouncil
We are thrilled to announce that today we have achieved the rainbow flag award. As youth workers we are supportive and inclusive of all LGBT+ young people and our youth centres and sessions are and always will be a safe space for young people to be who they are. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
So this week we have said goodbye to our senior youth officer
@JayneTaylor6
. Jayne led us through some hard times and some great times and kept us focussed on whats important- young people! Go off and enjoy your adventures!
Our detached youth workers have been hot, hot, hot, tonight in sessions across the borough tonight Some welcome water for young people at the sessions tonight.. as well as advice, support and building relationships...
Young people from our supportive Education have been working on the garden at Moss St Youth Centre for the last month, building benches and a fire pit - yesterday they built their first fire and made lunch on it... jacket potatoes and smores!
@GM_VRU
#youthwork
@RochdaleCouncil
We will be in Broadfiedl Park this afternoon to engage with young people at the local protest. Come say hi, we're happy to listen and encourage you to share your views
#youthwork