SYP Weymouth & Dorchester's New Volunteer Icebreakers!

We have a new volunteer at our Dorchester group, although Nat has been with us some time she has moved from Bournemouth & Poole group to our Dorchester and Weymouth groups.

To introduce herself to the group Nat brought along an ice breaker so the young people could get to know her and she them. The ice breaker involved stating with a piece of paper and having 1 minute to draw anything you wanted, you then had to pass your paper to the next person to add to your drawing, this was repeated until you ended up back with your original piece of paper and you could see how your drawing had developed.

Everyone really enjoyed the activity and were chatting about the end results plus the visiting police officer got involved too! As you can see some very interesting pictures were produced!

Local MPs Visit SYP!

Our Supernova young people team got in touch with Local MP's to invite them to attend Space Youth Project youth groups to meet our young people and see what they do at the groups.

Edward Morello from West Dorset and Vikki Slade from Mid Dorset & North Poole both replied and Edward attended Dorchester group on 25/09 and Vikki attended Poole group on 18/09. In addition Neil Duncan Jordan from Poole is visiting our Space Family Day on 22/11 to meet with the young people and their parents / guardians!

BBC Makes A Difference Awards!

We were honored to be nominated by one of our young people for the BBC Solent Make a Difference Awards in the Community Group category! We were invited to Portsmouth for the award ceremony and had a fantastic time hearing about the amazing projects happening in Dorset and Hampshire. Although we didn't win, we were honoured to have our efforts noticed and commended.

We had to make a quick exit from the ceremony to be back in Bournemouth for the group but all our young people were waiting to celebrate with us and all dressed up!