BYouth Café and Bookham Youth Work

BYouth Cafe

BYouth is our youth cafe based at St Nicolas Pastoral Centre, Church Road, Bookham. It is open on Mondays and Friday from 4:15 – 6:15pm for young people aged 11 – 17.

The aim of BYouth is to provide a safe, positive space for young people to meet friends, enjoy activities & games, and get to know our youth workers. BYouth allows our team to build positive relationships with local young people, and by doing so we can understand their needs and support them in other areas of their lives. Our team can help with referrals to counselling, careers advice and support with learning specific skills.

If you are interested in volunteering with us at BYouth, please get in touch.

FreeStyle Residential Camp

Freestyle is an annual residential trip which provides local young people with an action packed time away from home during the Easter holidays.

The young people work together in teams, play sports, learn new skills through workshops and listen to an inspirational talk each evening.

Freestyle is one of our most popular projects, leaving young people inspired, more confident and full of fantastic memories. For many Freestyle is their only time away from home all year.

Connect

Connect is a targeted support group which runs regularly for young people aged 11 to 17. If provides a safe space to be able to develop lasting friendships and expresses themselves freely. At Connect young people discuss topics relevant to them, eat dinner together, play games and take part in different activities.

Connect is run fortnightly, by our youth work team, along side our dedicated volunteers. It’s aim is to build the young people’s confidence and self-esteem to help them in their school, home and future lives.

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Key Work

Key Work is an additional support project for young people aged 11-17, who have been identified through community youth work, requiring extra one to one support from a youth worker. Key Work provides the space for a young person to talk things through with a youth worker on a regular basis, and allows the youth worker to monitor the young person’s wellbeing and current life situations, being the main contact for further referrals.

Schools Work

LYP is proud to partner with local primary and secondary schools.

We offer an annual Transition scheme to the primary schools in Bookham, helping year 6 students prepare for the upcoming transition to secondary education. We focus on looking at their hopes and fears, aspects of the school day including timetables, and where to go for help and support.

We also provide bespoke group work to local secondary schools to tackle specific issues their pupils are facing. We love to partner with schools so that young people can benefit from holistic support.

Summer

Each summer we run a schedule of activities and trips. This gives young people lots to get involved with over the long summer and keeps them with involved with positive activities.

Our summer activities include BBQ’s, a trip to Brighton and lunch at Nando’s.

Into The Wild

Our into the Wild project gives young people the opportunity to experience the outdoors and discover the positive impact spending time in nature can have on their mental health.

Into the Wild includes an orienteering training day, a mountain trek in Wales, a self-led expedition in the Surrey Hills and wild camping in hammocks.

Throughout this project the young people keep journals to reflect on their thoughts and feelings from taking part in this experience.

By completing Into the Wild, the young people also receive the John Muir Discovery Award.

Making Good

Making Good offers young people the chance to give back to their community by taking part in social action volunteering activities during half term.

This usually involves projects such as conservation work, litter picks, painting or clearing community areas.

On the third day of the project, young people enjoy a trip as a team building reward and past trips have included trampolining at Gravity Force, going to Paultons Park and bowling.

Faith Work

LYP is a Christian faith based organisation. As such we support young people with their faith journeys through a variety of our projects. We partner with Churches and other faith organisations to provide this support.

Central to our vision is…

• To be a team who live out our Christian values and ethos with love, authenticity and integrity in relationship with others, particularly young people.
• To provide projects that enable all young people to develop their whole lives, including their spiritual lives, and experience a journey on our youth work continuum towards transformation.
• That all our projects are shaped and designed to meet the needs of young people and give them the best outcomes possible.

Christian Unions – LYP supports Christian unions in some of the schools we work in.

Faith groups – We run groups for young people who would like to explore the Christian faith and develop their faith journey.

Next Level – Run in partnership with the local churches in Bookham this is our monthly youth led Christian worship night, on the third Friday of every month.