Idea: Young and Free!

 
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  • Created on: 14 Jan 2008
  • Idea status: Just a thought
  • Town: Bristol
 

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What it's all about

I am currently in the second year of university studying psychology. I am volunteer project leader for 'young and free'. This is an organistion, which is new to UWE. Its designed to help young people with disabilites gain opportunties for social interaction and befriending disabled and non disabled people. As part of my role is to organise social events, where we encourage members to get involved in activities that they may not have had the opportunity to do so before. We are holding an event for around 150 people, to raise awareness for Young and Free and also for the challenges people experience with learning disablities, to provide opportunites for social interaction. There will be a live band and music, and a raffle with prizes to raise money for future social events promoting more members to get involved.

What's needed to make it a reality

I have been liasing with Jo Earl (volunteer leader at UWE), as she provides support and information about the facilties that we have available. The university has is an excellent venue for social events, for example Bower Ashton campus could provide us with art facilities. However i think it would be more interesting for the members to have other opportunities and other activities which they can get involved in. I would like more direction and be able to converse with other project leaders, to exchange ideas and maybe collaborate our ideas and organise bigger events.

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  • Avatar Jo Earl 16:37, 21 January 2008 Hi Mingma,

    Thanks for posting your idea, and I will see you when you drop in and we can talk more about your ideas.

    Jo
  • Avatar zw!tch 17:38, 28 January 2008 Hey,

    Because you are a student at UWE you can access up to £750 to turn your idea into a reality. UWE is one of 15 Universities who are taking part in the scheme where you can access funding, training and support from your Junction49 staff member (Jo Earl who commented above) to help you get your project up and running
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