West Berkshire's biggest ever paperchain
Reading Boxer reaches National Final
Berkshire Women’s Aid in top national honour
West Berkshire's biggest ever paperchain
Friday 12th November saw the largest paperchain ever seen in West Berkshire. The paperchain was made of 8,000 views of children and young people.
The paperchain is the brainchild of Tanya Honor BACYP’s Participation Worker as part of Takeover Day 2010. The concept was to get the views of Children and Young People across West Berkshire to see what could be done to make their lives better.
Every school is West Berkshire was invited to take part in the event that was designed to help gain views of children and young people which can help better shape services.
In the current climate, it is essential that services best reflect the needs of the people they serve. More effective services, can be more efficient making sure that services meet actual need rather than perceived need.
During Takeover week young people wrote their views on paperchains which were collected together to make one large paperchain snaking from the Town Hall in Newbury, through Town to the Council Offices at Market Street. Over 50 volunteers from the council and organisations and services that work with young people came to help link up the paperchains, which was led through the town to Cllr Graham Pask, Chairman of West Berkshire Council at Market Street Offices.
Cllr Pask said “We are delighted to have been part of this initiative that has given every child in the District the opportunity of having their voice heard by telling us how we can make their lives better”
Reading Boxer Tamuka Muchanpowda reaches National Final
Reading ABC’s Tamuka Muchanpowda reached the National Final of Clubs for Young People Boxing Championships on 6th November.
After some tough opposition in earlier rounds, Tamuka classed his way through early rounds to reach his first national Final. Having only taken up boxing 3 years earlier, Tamuka faced the experienced Damon Jones from West Leeds.
Despite his efforts Tamuka missed out on the title, losing 21 points to 6. Tamuka was highly commended for his efforts, especially due to his inexperience in Finals.
Tamuka was Berkshire’s only Finalist having had 4 lads in the semi finals.
Berkshire East & South Bucks Women’s Aid in top national honour
Berkshire East & South Bucks Women’s Aid is celebrating today after scoopig the top award at last night’s prestigious Children & Young People Now Awards.
The glittering event which was held at the Royal Horticultural Halls in central London, hosted by TV personality Michael Underwood and included a key note speech from Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove MP was packed with over 700 attendees, from across the UK who all provided vital services to children and young people and their families.
Berkshire East & South Bucks Women’s Aid’s, Children’s Service Team won the events penultimate “Team of the Year” award for its transformational work in turning around the lives and improving the long-term outcomes for children and young people who are affected by domestic abuse. The team was selected from over 500 entries which came from across the UK.
Head of Children’s Services Delia Donovan said “I am thrilled to receive this award; it means so much to see our work recognised in this way. The award is for everyone on our team including our dedicated staff, volunteers and students who come to work every day with the one aim which is to make life better for children and young people affected by domestic violence”
Ravi Chandiramani, editor, Children & Young People Now said “The Berkshire East and South Bucks Women’s Aid, Children’s Services Team has made a significant difference to the lives of children affected by domestic violence. Our judges felt the project had made great progress in a short amount of time. The project is a great example of effective practice from which others around the country can learn.”
East Berkshire Womens Aid is an affiliated club to BACYP and through the support of BACYP it has also recently achieved its Quality Mark Standard as well as Quality Protects Award.
BACYP Berkshire athletics Championship 18/05/2011
On the 18th of May BACYP held its annual Athletics championship. There was a great turn out of over two hundred athletes and many more supporters cheering them on. The events were hard fought with multiple heats and tough finals. Congratulations for all that managed to get a medal. Those that won gold medals have been invited to represent Berkshire at the CYP National Athletics Finals in July. A big thank you goes out to all the coaches, parents, SPLAT team staff and most of all the officials. Without all that helped out, the night wouldn’t have been the success it was. I hope that next year we can make the event even better and our best wishes for the athletes competing at the nationals.
Please click the link below to see the full list of results.
BACYP Athletics results 2011
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