Lunchtime Meeting - 12:45pm - Speaker Claire Purcell, SYA Community Engagement and Fundraising Manager

SYA has a mission to provide Shropshire’s young people with a chance to discover their confidence, make friends, create fond memories and to make sure young people feel valued, seen and heard.

They provide or affiliate with over 120 youth clubs across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin,  working with schools and local communities to enrich the lives of over 4,000 young people every week.

These clubs are not just youth clubs, they provide a whole host of other activities and support for young people and a brief outline of some of these are listed below.

Time 2 Talk: An early intervention project designed by one of the SYA Young Health Champion projects, the aim of Time 2 Talk is to help young people across Shropshire to understand different aspects of both their own and their peers’ emotional health and wellbeing. Each week a specific issue relating to emotional health and wellbeing is discussed, such as; stress, stigma, self-esteem, general mental health, feeling low and anxiety.

Young Leaders: Young Leaders is a fantastic training opportunity for young people (up to 17 years of age) to have the chance to take more responsibility in their youth club.

XYZ: A safe place for LGBTQI+ young people to meet and make friends.

Health Champions: The training takes two days, and explores what health means to individuals, how we can improve health for ourselves and other young people and what affects our health. They then deliver health related projects in their communities.

I am writing to you today to see if I can come along to meet you to tell you more of the fabulous work that we do with young people and to see if you might like to become involved as one of our many supporters, or if the Rotary may be willing to donate to one of our worthy groups and causes. This would be extremely well received.

We can’t do what we do without solid local support from groups such as the Rotary.

Best wishes,

Claire Purcell
Community Engagement and Fundraising Manager.
claire.p@sya.org.uk