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Subscribe Past Issues Translate View this email in your browser Welcome to Angus Young Carers e-bulletin for May 2021 Another busy few months for Angus Young Carers. We have seen a relaxation on COVID restrictions and schools going back to full time. This month we asked Jim Dallas our Volunteer Development Worker to introduce himself to you all and let you know a little bit about his very important role within Young Carers. Despite the challenges of these difficult times we have been able to launch a new service that provides one to one befriending support to our young carers by volunteers. The befriending relationship will be time limited and will last for about twelve weeks. We have been busy over the past year recruiting volunteers to undertake this new role at Angus Carers Centre and providing them with an intensive training program in preparedness for matching volunteers with young carers. The service is now up and running and the volunteers are meeting up with their young person. At the moment restrictions mean that they can only do ‘walk and talks’ but this is a great way to get to know each other. Hopefully when restrictions are lifted
they will be able to take part in more activities. Subscribe Past Issues Translate The purpose of the service is to empower and inspire our young carers to become more involved in their community while building on their confidence and independence. Our young carer volunteer befrienders come from all walks of life and have a variety of interests. They are all really keen to support young carers and those that have already began befriending are really enjoying the role. In our next newsletter we will share some of the activities our volunteers and young carers have been undertaking. IN MARCH Michaela was very brave and was interviewed by BBC 9 Scotland. Michaela shared her experience of being a young carer through COVID. Angus Young Carers teamed up with Hillcrest Futures to provide WRAP training. Young carers attended two workshops in March where they
completed the Wellbeing Recovery Action Plan. WRAP is a self- Subscribe Past Issues Translate management tool that enables you to take control over your own mental health and wellbeing. These workshops were fun and interactive and the Young Carers who took part did amazing. Thank you to Erin and Sammy at Hillcrest Futures for two fun, educational sessions! Young Carers Action Day 2021 was on 16 March. The focus was to “Protect Young Carers’ Futures”. Our young carers got together and shared the skills they had developed. At Young Carers group on the 16th of March young carers had the opportunity to share with the group something special to them. We had Alex and his dad give a presentation on how to make a bowl using a lathe. Olivia spoke about her bunnies and Keira spoke about her puppies and Maja gave a powerpoint presentation on Rambo her dog and shared her best day ever attending A BTS concert.
Subscribe Past Issues Translate In March we sowed wild flower seeds in a pot to create our very own door step meadow. All seeds and pots were donated by Sustainable Kirriemuir. WHAT HAPPENED DURING APRIL April brought young carers spring, sun and chocolate!! Activity packs were delivered to young carers and all were packed full of goodies donated from Asda Forfar, Coop Kirriemuir and Arbroath Football Club. All packs were delivered to AYC doorstep by our volunteer drivers Bill and Derek. Sustainable Kirriemuir have made it possible for us to make weekly delivery packs to AYC. Packs were funded by Sustainable Kirriemuir made up by Volunteers at Community First in Forfar,
picked up by Bill and Derek AYC Volunteer drivers. We had lots Subscribe Past Issues Translate of things to cook and learn new skills. Baking is always a favourite. This is certainly what Community coming together is all about. We are also delighted to announce that Sustainable Kirriemuir have extended the funding for a fortnightly baking kit to be delivered to AYC for 5 more weeks. During our ZOOM Tuesday we asked AYC what receiving the cooking packs meant to them. Here are some of the answers. The pasta and pizza packs provided a meal for my family for a night I loved cooking with my family I loved eating the goodies It kept me busy and occupied during lockdown They were fun to make and kept me calm I looked forward to them coming every week. It was always a surprise to see what was in them It helped my cooking skills We ran a ADHD workshop this was supported by Lynne Kelly and Goodrum at Dundee and Angus ADHD Support Group. Young Carers attended a Zoom session and learnt more about ADHD. This was a fun, interactive session and the Young Carers (and Angela!) who attended learnt lots about ADHD and enjoyed this. Thank you, Lynne and Gemma!
Subscribe Past Issues Translate April brought about restrictions being eased and this allowed Heather to organise fun in the park. Each week Heather and volunteers met young people in a local park and had fun and games. A donation made by Montrose Rotary enabled AYC to purchase outdoor sports equipment. This will provide us with lots of opportunities to have outdoor fun in the Park in the future. Throughout April we have been meeting up in Forfar, Brechin , Montrose and Arbroath and got physical in the park. We know you all love exercise.
Subscribe Past Issues Translate Competitions Chloe won the egg decorating competition. Well done Chloe! I hope you enjoyed the Easter Egg and sweets. Well done to everyone who joined in Easter Egg decorating on ZOOM TUESDAY. Maja won the egg box competition whereby young carers had to apply their creative skills in making something from an egg box. Well done Maja Our young carers appear to have a sweet tooth!!
Subscribe Past Issues Translate We teamed up with AWARE to provide an information session on having fun safely online Maxine from AWARE came along to speak to young carers on how to stay safe online. Maxine shared two websites for keeping yourself safe on line. https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/ https://www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/
Subscribe Past Issues Translate Thank you to..... Arbroath FC and Kirriemuir Co- op for donating – Easter eggs and Asda Forfar for donating Easter Eggs and Activity Books Monifieth donation, sports equipment and wellbeing boxes. AYC was able to purchase, tennis racket sets, badminton sets, markers, agility ladders etc... and First Aid kits for young carers
from money donated by Monifieth Rotary. Subscribe Past Issues Translate Science Centre Dundee for more science boxes for over Easter Sustainable Kirriemuir for donating young carers sunflower kits
Subscribe Past Issues Translate So much happening it is important that you keep yourself up to date on our social media as we do not want any young person to miss out. Our summer programme is underway and Heather has a busy and fun packed plan.. Activities will need to be signed up to and there are limited places. Once we collect all the information we will then allocate places. Please be mindful it is difficult and you may not get your first choice however we will aim to do our very best.
Subscribe Past Issues Translate The Scottish Youth Parliament, YouthLink Scotland and Young Scot, commissioned by the Scottish Government, have partnered again to deliver the next #LockdownLowdown, finding out the issues and concerns of young people as lockdown begins to ease. They want to find out more about the thoughts and feelings of young Scots as lockdown restrictions begin to ease. The survey closes on 31 May 2021. Click on the new survey to take part. The survey is a partnership between Young Scot, Scottish Youth Parliament and YouthLink Scotland, who together will analyse the results to help inform the Scottish Government's future decision- making process in relation to Covid-19 and lockdown restrictions. The initial survey results, published in April 2020, revealed that 96% of young people were worried about the impact of coronavirus on their future, with 77% concerned about their mental health and wellbeing Did you know? Did you know that Registered Young Carers can access our counselling service. This service is available for anyone aged 8
Subscribe years and above. Past Issues Translate Your mental well-being matters! Get in touch! Call Angela on 07936945126 or Gillian on 07387017436 Copyright © 2021 Angus Carers Centre All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Angus Carers Centre, Ground Floor, 8 Grant Road, Arbroath, Angus, DD11 1JN. Telephone 01241 439157 please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail is confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee. Any views or opinions presented are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Angus Carers Association. Angus Carers association, known as Angus Carers Centre, is a registered charity number SC026052. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify us with a reply and delete any resulting copies as well as the original. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.
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