PYCP’s Bonfire Week programme

🤩 Have a look at our Bonfire Week programme – clubs are back next week with a bang!

We will be running some bonfire activities, having some fire work safety fun and taking some S1+s to Ratho for Muirhouse Youth Development Group‘s Big Bonfire Event 😎

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Youth Volunteering opportunities in North Edinburgh

Local youth agencies are currently looking for young Youth Work Volunteers, offering some great opportunities for local young people.

Interested? Get in touch with the organisation via email.

Remembering a wondeful summer: PYCP newsletter

📢 Our Summer newsletter is out!🎉

Even if the weather outside is telling us that winter is coming, we don’t want to forget how much fun we had last summer during those wonderful sunny days! ☀😍

That’s why we are celebrating the time spent together with this fantastic newsletter.

Click it out at the link below!

➡https://pycp.co.uk/…/10/Newsletter-Summer-2021-PYCP.pdf

Be a PYCP Adventurer!


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Hey PYCP families and friends! Pretty soon we’ll be starting two new 10-week-blocks of the Adventurers for young people P5 to P7.

The activities will be on: Tuesday 3.30 – 5.00 and Thursday 3.30 – 6.00

To book a place: aga@pycp.co.uk 07305054162.

Read all about it: free libraries open at PYCP

A group of young people at Pilton Youth and Children’s Project have been working over the summer holidays to design and build two Little Free Libraries for children in the local community.

The idea was brought to us by Alison McLuckie, a paediatrician working with children and young people in Edinburgh and Mark Stares, a research doctor based at the Western General Hospital.

Alison said: “In my work as a paediatrician, I understand the importance of early literacy and reading for pleasure, and we were thrilled to work with PYCP on the project”.

Alison and Mark and PYCP Youth Workers Aga, Caryn, Adrianna, Adele and other volunteers worked with young people aged 8 to 12 from the “PYCP Adventurers” group, taking the project from the idea stage to building both libraries.

The Adventurers group meet weekly and do all sorts of outdoor activities and learn how to use tools safely, so this was the ideal project for them!

The idea is that local families can take free books from the libraries which are positioned outside of the PYCP building.

A number of Little Free Libraries are all over Edinburgh, including in the New Town, Stockbridge, Starbank Park and Leith Links.

This has been a fantastic project and the young people at PYCP will continue to steward the libraries, making sure they are well stocked and looked after. Families are also welcome to bring a book to leave in return for taking a new one.

The libraries were officially launched on Tuesday (10th August) by Bruce Adamson the Children and Young People’s Commissioner and Nick Hobbs from the office of CYPS.

Young people from the group met with Bruce and Nick and talked him through the design and building process. Bruce and Nick also brought along some books to put in the libraries which were greatly appreciated by the young people.

There are two Little Libraries outside The Greenhouse, both designed by and built with the Young Adventurers.

The first is aimed at children nursery to Primary 2 and is the design of a rainbow hot air balloon. The second is a Harry Potter library for children aged Primary 3 to 7.

Pilton Youth and Childrens Project

Become a PY Pal!

Hello to all our friends and family of PYCP,

Here is a link to our newly revamped website: www.pycp.co.uk

We are also happy to announce the launch of PY Pals.

PY Pals is a simple way to support the project by giving a regular donation or one off payments.

https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/9629#/DonationDetails

For as little as a price of a coffee every month, you can support a local charity to make a real difference.

We would be extremely grateful if you can share this post with your family and friends.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask.

Many thanks

Debbie

Together Enterprise: new youth project to launch in Pilton

  • Be your own boss! New scheme launched to inspire young people to set up their own co-operative businesses
  • Drop-in information session tomorrow from 11am – 1pm

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