Kingsnympton Youth Work Report Year 2

Oxygen’s current work on the Kingsnympton Estate was launched in January 2006. It was developed, planned and undertaken in partnership between Kingston Youth Service and Oxygen The partnership was completed by the Personal Development Trust who provided financial backing to the scheme. The original stated shared aim of the work on the estate was to build self esteem, confidence and motivation in young people on the Kingsnympton Estate and thus have a long term positive impact on the local community.

The Year 1 project report (issued January 2007) outlined how Oxygen workers had used the year to get to know the estate and in particular the lifestyles patterns of the young people who live and visit there. The conclusions at the end of year 1 was that during year 2 it was important to build on the good work started by developing other work, particularly a new work on Tuesday evenings, at the Oxygen centre on weekends and to look at developing a new coordinated work during the summer. Attention was drawn in the report that there was a need to deepen the work established; giving the young people more responsibilities whilst creating opportunities for exploring their values, attitudes and lifestyle choices.
To make these conclusions possible during 2007 Oxygen was awarded two grants by the Personal Development Trust. This funding was split between work that could be delivered during Jan – July and Sept – Dec (£5,000) and that which could be delivered during the summer holidays (£2,200).The report below outlines what was achieved with these two grants and draws up proposals for the development of the project into year 3.

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