Surrey Heath CLP

Projects

Hubble Community Enterprise

After its sucessful after-school clubs, Hubble Community Enterprise is running a PUPPETEERING HOLIDAY CLUB betwween  30th July - 3rd August 2007, operating in the Surrey Avenue community garden, Camberley, in a Marquee each day between 10.00 am - 2.00pm.  The marquee will be open to up to 50 young people each day.
The holiday club will run daily and teach young people how to operate puppets and work as a team; this will include craft, games and other fun activities throughout the week. Lunchtimes will also be fun times, where the young people will make their own healthy options from the selection of food that will be available to them.
For more details contact Sam Sutherland on  07951 760436 or email Sam Sutherland

Youth Professionals Network

The CLP has been instrumental in the creation of regular meetings of youth professionals which can ensure young people receive a seamless approach from the professionals working with them.

Old Dean Residents Association

The CLP supported this group to make a bid for funds to run vocational skills courses for unemployed young people in first aid, construction skills and motor mechanics.  Recent courses have included Driving Theory lessons for unemployed young people and ESOL classes are on-going at Pineridge Infants School. We will be continuing this in September 2007 although some members of the group will be progressing onto college courses.

Egg-cellent art to go on display in Camberley town centre

The success of an art project in Camberley over Christmas has led to an offering of Easter-themed creations from artistic youngsters.

Students from four Camberley schools have created art work based on what Easter means to them and each piece will be exhibited in shop and office windows in the town centre in the run up to Easter 2007.

At Christmas Surrey Heath Borough Council, The Surrey Chambers of Commerce and Surrey Heath Community Learning Partnership worked together to organise a similar project which saw Christmas-themed art work displayed in the town centre. Following the success of the exhibition these three organisations have joined together again to bring the Easter project to fruition.

Sian Sangarde-Brown from the Surrey Heath Community Learning Partnership said: “Christmas was the first time we had organised this project. It was very well received by businesses and shoppers and the children really enjoyed taking part so we decided to roll it out to Easter.”

These exhibitions have become a regular event.

Jayne Boitoult Community Development Officer at Surrey Heath Borough Council said: ”This is a fantastic project which brings together businesses, schools and the public. It is great to see that this time we have also received art work from pupils who have disabilities.”

Cordwalles Junior School, Pine Ridge Infant School, Bristow Infant School and Portesbery Special School have all produced art for the exhibition.

Pauline Hedges from The Surrey Chambers of Commerce said: “This is not a competition. Each exhibit will be labelled with the artist's name, age and school and all artwork will be displayed in shop or office windows in the town centre for family, friends and shoppers to enjoy.”

Supporting the Deepcut Army Community

The Deepcut army community is a small and relatively isolated community that is in real need of more support. Since its inception Surrey Heath Community Learning Partnership has viewed engaging with this community as a priority.  Due to the nature of the Army Community (its structure and the regular movement of personnel) it has proved difficult to engage, until now...

The Community Learning Advisor started working closely with the Army Community Worker and straightaway arranged for the mothers of a 'parent and toddler' group to receive first aid training focusing on the under 5 age range.  The same group then had a Bitesize session on face-painting and were so motivated by it the mothers have been facilitating their own arts and crafts sessions one afternoon per week since 2004.

Visit the case study page to download the full Deepcut good practice case study.

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