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LYP Celebrates 7th Birthday
Last Saturday Leatherhead Youth Project celebrated our 7th birthday. One hundred of our young people, friends and partner came. It was a chance for them to meet the young people and see the projects they are involved in.
DofE Final Expedition
Last weekend our Duke of Edinburgh group joined forces with Ashtead YDS’s group to complete their Final Expedition, qualifying them for their Bronze Award! It’s been an exciting journey for all involved, with new skills and sports learnt, and lots of volunteering done. Our young people did brilliantly in the last stages ...
DofE Practice Expedition Weekend
Last weekend our DofEers undertook a challenging practice expedition, involving walking, camping and using skills they’d learnt during training. They navigated with large rucksacks up to High Ashurst on Boxhill the first evening and set up their tents, cooked dinner upon a Trangia stove and camped overnight. The following morning they packed up and walked ...
DofE Practice Day
On Saturday we teamed up with Ashtead Youth Center for the next part of our Duke of Edinburgh Scheme. The day was all about learning map skills, first aid and camping. After an initial session on route planning the group of 14 young people and 4 youth workers split into two groups and went off ...
DofE Fire Course
As part of there Duke of Edinburgh Award, four girls from LYP are attending The Fire Course which is run by Surrey Fire Service. They learn about such things as team building, problem solving as well as of course fire safety. The DofE team will be completing the bronze award this summer by taking part in ...
LYP Launch Duke of Edinbrough Scheme
Leatherhead Youth Project is proud to announce the start of our DofE project. We are now an affiliated DofE center. We currently have 9 young people signed up for the course which looks to give them new skills, volunteering opportunities and outdoor expedition experience. We support the young people and subsidise the costs so that ...
