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Youth Social Action / Celebrating Stanley / September 1st, 2025
Kyle's Celebration of Stanley
Kyle shares his leanings about Stanley's mine and how to improve the town.

Youth Social Action / Celebrating Stanley / September 1st, 2025
Brad's Celebration of Stanley
Brad tells us about his knowledge of Stanley's mining past and the spirit of the past to the present.

Youth Social Action / Celebrating Stanley / September 1st, 2025
James's Celebration of Stanley
James shares his views on how people from Stanley can achieve great things and reflects on future opportunities.

Youth Social Action / Celebrating Stanley / September 1st, 2025
Alecia's Celebration of Stanley
Alecia tells us about discovering Stanley's past and suggestions for Stanley's future.

Youth Social Action / Celebrating Stanley / August 29th, 2025
Ellie's Celebration of Stanley
Ellie tells us about her views on the history of Stanley and living in what used to be a mining village.

Youth Social Action / Celebrating Stanley / August 29th, 2025
Libby's Celebration of Stanley
Libby tells us all about how she feels about the town of Stanley, and how it could be improved for young people.

Youth Social Action / Aspirations and Future Planning / July 17th, 2025
The National Astronomy Meeting with Moorside Primary Academy
As part of our Youth Employability and Aspirations Programme with Moorside Primary, the children were specially invited to the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) at Durham University! The NAM brought together nearly 1,000 astronomers from across the UK to share the latest research about the Universe. We even made the local news!

Youth Social Action / Aspirations and Future Planning / July 17th, 2025
The Moorside 'Bridging the Gap' Youth Employability & Aspirations Programme
The ‘Moorside Bridging the Gap Youth Employability & Aspirations Programme’ was designed to raise the career-based aspirations of young people from Moorside in Consett. This programme was kindly supported by Point North and completed with Year 5 and 6 from Moorside Primary Academy.

Self-Belief and Emotional Wellbeing / Youth Social Action / Aspirations and Future Planning / July 2nd, 2025
Raising aspirations through Beth's work with Building Self-Belief
From helping young people raise aspirations in the classroom to painting and growing a beautiful garden – the experience of helping the community on multiple levels with Building Self-Belief

Youth Social Action / Benfieldside Community Garden / July 2nd, 2025
Benfieldside Communty Garden's Early July Update
Here is Building Self-Belief's .July update about the work at Benfieldside Community Garden. The areas where the paths will be have been scraped out - and next week the 2000 blocks will be laid to edge the path... Take a look at the work so far!

Self-Belief and Emotional Wellbeing / Youth Social Action / Aspirations and Future Planning / May 30th, 2025
A Visit from the Centre for Social Justice
On Tuesday 13th May, our Harton Academy boys’ wellbeing and aspirations group had a wonderful visit from Dan Lilley, senior researcher at The Centre for Social Justice.

Self-Belief and Emotional Wellbeing / Youth Social Action / Kye's Kick Off / May 23rd, 2025
The Key+ supporting Kye's Kick Off
Check out this article that The Key have shared about Kye's Kick Off! The Key are a charity who support groups to reach their potential by taking on the Key+ challenge. The Kye's Kick Off group have completed stage 1 of the Key+ challenge and received the cost of the pitch hire from The Key. Thank you for their support!

Self-Belief and Emotional Wellbeing / Youth Social Action / Kye's Kick Off / May 22nd, 2025
Kye's Kick Off Programme
Here is a link to the Kye's Kick Off match programme for people to download and keep as a memory of this wonderful event.

Self-Belief and Emotional Wellbeing / Youth Social Action / Kye's Kick Off / May 7th, 2025
Kye's Kick Off - Charity Football Match In Memory of Kye Cunnington
Kye's Kick Off was a charity football match on Tuesday 29th April at South Shields FC. The match was between Boldon School's Yr 9 VS Yr 11, in memory of much loved student, Kye Cunnington. The total amount raised for Teenage Cancer Trust was just over £4000!

Self-Belief and Emotional Wellbeing / Youth Social Action / Kye's Kick Off / April 16th, 2025
Kye's Kick Off - Boldon School Charity Match
Please join us on Tuesday 29th April at South Shields FC for Kye's Kick Off! This is a charity football match between Boldon School Yr 9 VS Yr 11 in memory of Kye Cunnington. All funds raised are going to Teenage Cancer Trust in Yorkshire, the Humber and the North East. ⚽️

Youth Social Action / Aspirations and Future Planning / February 10th, 2025
Global Opportunities for Young People to Extend your Life Experiences
There are many opportunities to extend your life experiences outside of education or work, including travelling or working abroad. These opportunities are perfect for young people to learn new skills, meet new people and gain once in a lifetime experiences. For people who leave school and are unsure about what they want to do next, these experiences can be useful to figure out what you are interested in and gain volunteer or work experience which is a wonderful asset to your CV.