Crafty young people!
Our young people in Scarborough did us proud last week when they got crafting for Christmas with residents at The Lodge care home. We arranged the session as part of our SASH Active programme, which helps our young people in Supported Lodgings learn new skills, build self-confidence and make connections with their local communities. Callum, …
A salty treat!
Thanks to our new friends at Wetwheels Yorkshire our young people got to experience an amazing treat on the high seas last week! The group from York and Scarborough boarded a nine metre catamaran at Whitby harbour and headed out into the North Sea for some whale and seal watching off the Ravenscar coast. Sadly …
York Community Pride Awards
The award was made for our Enable project, a collaboration with City of York Council which involves the young people we support giving up their time to volunteer for activities that help others – be that decorating an older person’s home, gardening projects or even revamping the St Leonards Hospice shop facilities in Acomb. We …
Aviva Employability Workshop
We were delighted to welcome staff from Aviva to our office last week to run an employability workshop for our young people. The session last Friday afternoon provided a wealth of information for our young people in Supported Lodgings in Harrogate, Selby and York, designed to help them apply for jobs. 19 year old Rhiannon …
SASH Tour Guides at Bishopthorpe Palace
A huge well done to our five young people who acted as very special tour guides at Bishopthorpe Palace yesterday! Jadzia, Kieran, Ollie, Ryan and Suzan did a fantastic job as they led our VIP guests through the rooms at the Palace, which is not normally open to the public. They provided information on the …
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Thanks to the kind people at Lunchbox Productions, a group of very lucky young people in our Supported Lodgings scheme were treated to a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Rose Theatre last Thursday. Only one of the group had ever seen a live Shakespeare performance before. The tickets were for the Groundlings, …
SASH Active at the Rainbow Centre
Thank you and well done to our Scarborough lodger Adam, who gave up a day of his Easter holiday earlier this month to help out another charity! The Rainbow Centre, a Scarborough social action project for people in crisis, needed a refresh of one of their therapy rooms. After talking to SASH Support Worker Tiffany …