Young Peoples Action Group
Thursday, April 19th, 2009 Tanterton Community Centre

Attendees: Annette Stevens (Neighbourhood Management), Matthew Stanton, Iain Mackie (INTACT), Bill McGrath (Ingol Community Association), Dave Aspen (Ingol and Tanterton Youth Association)

Item Discussed Action

Apologies
Ruth Paterson (Signposts), Bob Casey (Youth Services), Angela Callagher (Preston Employment Partnership)

Notes from the last meeting
The minutes from the last meeting were agreed.

Signposts/Tanterton Christian Centre’s Youth Café Project. Ruth Paterson of Signposts was unable to attend, she did however send a brief update via email.
Young People’s Services have yet to sign off their section. The Youth Café is currently being delivered on a limited scale because the money has not yet been released. So far, there have been around 10 young people attending each week.

Teenage Pregnancy Proposal – Iain Mackie Teenage pregnancy statistics are higher in Ingol and Tanterton. Iain Mackie and Helen Dixon have been working on a Teenage Sexual Health project which will involve having regular sexual health drop-in sessions at Intact and outreach at two local schools: Fulwood and Ashton.
Iain and Helen will be trained to become Tier One Sexual Health trainers, and as such they will be able to advisee young people on sex issues, distribute condoms, do Chlamydia screening and know where to direct them if they have any serious problems
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The outreach work will involve young people devising and performing short dramas about sexual health issues and these will be put onto DVD so others can learn from them as well. Iain has written a proposal which requests £5,000 from Impact and this will go to the board at the next meeting for approval.

General Sharing
Annette informed the group of all recent and ongoing Neighbourhood Management projects including:
The final Ingol Dip consultation on May the 14th

The upcoming Britain in Bloom projects around Ingol and Tanterton.

David informed the group about the current activities of the Ingol and Tanterton Youth Group, including planned trips to Pontins, Blackpool and various football activities.

Bill McGrath spoke about the various fundraising events for the memorial to Dylan Gabriel, details of which were sent to Impact and appear on the ICA website.

Next Meeting – June the 16th at 3.30pm. INTACT (The meeting is a special meeting to discuss setting up a user group for the ingol Sports Hub. Youth issues will be discussed at the end, please try and attend)

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Young Peoples Action Group
Thursday March 19th 2009 Tanterton Community Centre

MinutesAttendees: Annette Stevens (Neighbourhood Management), Matthew Stanton, Iain Mackie (INTACT), Bob Casey (Young Peoples Services), Ruth Patterson (Signposts), Sally Haming, Louise Martin, Lucy Chesham
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Item Discussed Action

Apologies
Rosie Green, Pam Beswick

Notes from the last meeting
The minutes from the last meeting were agreed.

Project Updates The Tanterton Play Area
Plans for the new Play Area were passed around and Annette Stevens explained how the project had come about. At the moment we have £45,000 from the 106 Funding, and a further £10,000 from the Big Lottery. Matt Kelly from Preston City Council is currently looking into sourcing more funding, hopefully bringing the total for the project to £80,000.
The group discussed how we might consult with residents on the plans for this new area and a suggestion was put forward that we organise a Fun-Day at Tanterton Community Centre in which several current projects would be promoted alongside activities for kids, this would be a good way to get people in to see the plans without calling it a public consultation.
The next stage will be planned by a subgroup consisting of Annette Stevens, Ruth Patterson and Bob Casey.

Signposts/Christian Centre - Youth Cafe

An offer letter will shortly be sent out asking for further clarification of funding allocation. That aside, the project is to go ahead soon.
Signposts and the Christian Centre will be looking into a launch event (possibly working it into the Fun-day mentioned above).
Outreach work is already taking place.
The Group will be updated at the next meeting.

General Sharing of project information Annette informed the group about:

" Ingol Dip - final plans for the redevelopment on this area have now been completed and the Citizenzone Bus will be in the area again shortly to display these plans.
" 20s Plenty, May half term.
" Britain in Bloom - Four projects have been approved including one at Tanterton Community Centre.
" The Street Reps scheme is currently being promoted.
" Street Audits for Ingol and Tanterton took place a few weeks ago and reports are being made.

Ruth Patterson informed the group about upcoming Signposts projects, including:
" A sexual health provision (which she will be discussing with Iain Mackie)
" The Youth Café
" Summer Play Schemes
" Involving Sports Development

Iain Mackie informed the group about INTACTs current Youth Projects:
" Easter Playschemes
" Girls Football Sessions
" A NEET Project (Not in Education, Employment or Training)
" A fishing Project for all ages, involving trips to Catforth, starting in April.

Youth Services
Upcoming residentials for young people
Outreach on Mondays and Wednesdays
A new building in Ashton

Data Sharing - Deadline end of March Activities sheets and postcode mapping -
The absolute deadline for this information is the end of March. many have already filled in and returned the forms.

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Next Meeting The next meeting will take place on the 28th of April at Tanterton Community Centre.