Category Archives: Craigavon LPG

Summer Gets Active 2022

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8 Days, 13 Activities, 50 Peer Mentors, 75 Children, 48 Families and 9 Nationalities…

It was another busy summer at Portadown Gets Active, with an excellent team of peer mentors who delivered 7 of the workshops over the 2 weeks. A fantastic family day took place with a visit from Jurassic LOC-down and lots of Jurassic-themed activities ran across the week!

Find out more about the Summer Gets Active 2022 programme and about what participating children, young people and families thought of the experience HERE

Next up, Halloween’s “Monsters Inc Gets Active”…

(The aims of Portadown Gets Active (PGA) are to provide Primary School age children, who are eligible for free school meals, with a healthy breakfast and lunch outside of school term-time, as well as providing opportunities to learn something new, participate in physical activities and most importantly have fun with their peers. Referrals also come through the Craigavon & Banbridge Family Support Hub (FSH) , Community Intercultural Programme, Family Intervention and SHSCT. Children from Portadown, Craigavon, Lurgan and Banbridge attend the Programme. Oasis Youth, PGA’s lead community partner, works in partnership with key agencies and organisation to ensure PGA has run successfully since 2017.)

Southern Area FYI Newsletter Issue 87

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Welcome to the 87th edition of our information bulletin, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

Download Issue 87 here

(Note: FYI will download directly to your device.  Look out for the pop up box and click on open file when it appears)

We hope you have had a good summer and enjoyed some time off to recharge batteries.

Since our last edition of ‘FYI’, a month ago, we have gathered a massive amount of information, opportunities and resources for practitioners, parents/caregivers and children & young people. As always we have categorised these into themes, at the front-end of the newsletter, followed by geographic areas at the end.

You will see on Slide 3 a call for all our LPG members to complete a short survey to help us ensure Locality Planning Groups are effective as they can be.  Slide 4 also asks for information to help map current support available to meet the cost of living crises. Then we have our new information leaflet to tell you all about who we are and what we do.

Joanne Patterson & Darren Curtis, Locality Development Team, Southern Area

 

Southern Area FYI Newsletter Issue 86

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Welcome to the 86th edition of our information bulletin, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

Download Issue 86 here

(Note: FYI will download directly to your device.  Look out for the pop up box and click on open file when it appears)

We hope you are enjoying the summer break and are able to support children, young people and parents with opportunities to participate in local activities. We have included a link to our CYPSP resource which is continually updated and shares a massive amount of activities and opportunities for children, young people and parents – See page 4.

Please let us know if you wish to attend any of our forthcoming Locality Planning Group meetings, where we share information and make time to learn more about local services. Contact details and dates of future meetings are at the end of this resource – See page 41.

Please also keep us posted as to what’s happening in your area and we will be happy to share this. We now send ‘FYI’ to over 800 contacts in the Southern Area and this number is continually increasing!

‘FYI’ is circulated monthly during the summer, so the next issue of our newsletter will be going out on Thursday 25th August 2022, with the deadline for submissions being Tuesday 23rd August 2022.  Please e-mail your flyers, posters, etc. directly to localityplanning@ci-ni.org.uk.

Joanne Patterson & Darren Curtis, Locality Development Team, Southern Area

Southern Area FYI Newsletter Issue 85

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Welcome to the 85th edition of our information bulletin, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

Download Issue 85 here

(Note: FYI will download directly to your device.  Look out for the pop up box and click on open file when it appears)

We have included our new publication, ‘Summer Is Coming’, on page 3, to highlight summer activities for children and young people. You will also see more opportunities throughout this edition which have been submitted individually.

We have also included an updated version of the CYPSP Resource Pack, with even more activities & opportunities for children & young people, on page 4.

Please make sure to follow the link on page 5 to see the positive impact ‘FYI’ has amongst our readership and in communities.

‘FYI’ will be available monthly during July & August, so please continue to send us information for sharing. (See page 43 for issue dates.)

Joanne Patterson & Darren Curtis, Locality Development Team, Southern Area

The Difference ‘FYI’ Newsletter is Making!

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In January 2019, the CYPSP Southern Area Locality Development Team introduced a new innovative way of sharing information on the great work of services and organisations striving to improve outcomes for children, young people and families in the Southern Trust Area.

With the aim of strengthening contacts, participation, engagement and connections in the region, Southern Area LPG members, as well as the wider community, are invited to submit flyers, posters & announcements promoting relevant events, opportunities, programmes and initiatives. All of this information is then collated and shared via a one-stop shop style newsletter, FYI’ (For Your Information).

This fortnightly e-bulletin is currently circulated on alternate Thursday afternoons to over 800 contacts, advertising on behalf of a varied range of community, voluntary & statutory organisations. The newsletter is also widely promoted across various CYPSP social media channels and e-mail circulars.

With ‘FYI’ having moved into its 80th edition in April this year, the time was right for us to review this fortnightly newsletter and how it is making an impact on the ground.

The good news is that the Southern Area Locality Development Team are already making positive changes to our e-bulletin on the back of feedback received through the recent survey!

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who responded to our survey and told us how you view ‘FYI’. Thanks, too, to all of our Southern Area LPG members and newsletter recipients for their continued support of this information sharing service.

To see the difference ‘FYI’ is making, click HERE.

If you would like to be added to the ‘FYI’ newsletter circulation list, please e-mail the Southern Area Locality Development Team on localityplanning@ci-ni.org.uk