I generally try and avoid using my blog to ask for help for Solent Youth Action – the last time I remember doing it was back in 2007 when I was looking for mentors for our new mentoring scheme.
So I hope you’ll forgive me now if I try and use my space here to ask for support for an SYA event coming up.
If you are near Hursley next Monday (16th) afternoon, please come along to the Clubhouse at 2.30pm.
Young volunteers for SYA are refurbishing old furniture: restoring it, cleaning it, and decorating it. They hadn’t done anything like this before, so it has been a great opportunity to them to learn new, practical skills.
The furniture was all donated – these were items that otherwise would’ve been thrown away, making it also a good chance to teach a valuable reduce, reuse, recycle message.
The fruits of their labour will go on sale in a charity auction to be held in the Clubhouse, with all money received to be donated to Comic Relief.
Please come along and take a look at what they’ve been working on.
More details about the event, and the items of furniture that the young people are working on, can be found on the SYA website.