It has been a fantastic start to the football season here at CYP. The CYP U16’s boy’s football team has only just entered the new Coram’s League and has already won their first two games. The 8 a-side tournament is played in a league format and will go on to become a knock-out competition for…
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The recent half-term was a mixture of both relaxed and fun-filled. Starting it off on Valentine’s day, the young people enjoyed the day with some Mocktails and Karaoke. With our personal mixologist Dray ‘behind the bar’, each young person managed to get a tasty drink decorated to the T. With the centre light turned down,…
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After the fun and enjoyment that came from the October Half Term, we’ve had even more young people show interest in baking and cooking over in our kitchen. At one of our most recent sessions, a group of young people took it upon themselves to make pizzas, brownies with ice cream, as well as fresh…
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CYP will support the Islington Youth Violence Reduction Strategy by creating a project in collaboration with young people. The project will take place over the week beginning September 27th and will address the issue of youth crime. It is not yet clear what the project or outcomes will be however following early discussions film, music…
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Later, we moved onto breaking bad habits. The young people were all given plates. On it, we listed any bad habits that they felt needed to break. After they wrote on the plate, we took ourselves into a sheltered alleyway and threw them on the ground whilst yelling, “we are not our bad habits”. Afterwards,…
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With a few weeks of summer already gone, the young people have been able to start it off well. Thanks to Summerversity, Mondays and Tuesdays have been occupied with our Wellbeing Sports programme. Starting off with badminton, new comers come into the scene to experience what it’s like at CYP. From badminton, to cycling, to…
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As of 6th January 2021, we will be entering into another national Lockdown. We will still be offering Youth Club sessions every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 7-9 PM. To attend, young people must be in one of the regular support bubbles. Please note that in a Lockdown, The National Youth Agency have stated…
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Whether you’re a volunteer, staff member, funder, delivery partner or young person we would like to thank you for your support throughout this unpredictable year. Like many of you, we are glad to see the back of 2020, and we are very excited to see what happens at CYP in 2021. In response to COVID,…
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For the past few weeks, we are slowly beginning to feel the shift of seasons. The young people find themselves more indoors more than anything. As it has been Black History Month, CYP have been running various events to mark the month. Most recently, a Black History themed quiz night. It seemed both staff and…
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Happy Black History Month everyone. We understand that the black experience cannot be and shouldn’t be acknowledged in only one given month; and that everyday we must all do the work to better understand how black history has come to impact our current society. However we will take this time to celebrate the cultures of…
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