Issue 13: June 2019
Youth Clubs Latest news from your local
Youth Club
Youth Work Week
Youth Work Week 2019 is here!
Legacy Team The Legacy Team’s young people enjoy a 10 week project
at the Down to Earth programme
Youth Council
Volunteering awards for youth council members
Families First Latest news from our Families First Team
Quick Quiz Test your knowledge with our quick quiz and brainteaser
Meet the Youth Service Team Dean Austin
Welcome to Neath Port Talbot
Youth Serivce www.nptyouthservice.orgwww.nptyouthservice.org
Youth Work
Week 2019
Youth Work Week 2019 is here! Keep up to date on everything the Youth Service do this week via our Facebook and Twitter pages and don’t forget to use #YouthWorkWales to search for the celebrations of Youth Work across Wales.
The next edition of our NPT Youth magazine will have all the highlights and pictures from our activities throughout Youth Work Week, with our Summer trip to Drayton Manor Theme Park capping off a fantastic week of fun!
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1 Cimla Youth Club Presentation Evening
There was plenty of fun on offer during the last night of term with the young people participating in games and activities. The young people were presented with certificates to recognise their achievements for example Welsh Culture, Arts & Crafts, pool competition, Chess challenge and more. The evening ended with a staff vs Young people game of Dodgeball – it was the only time this term the staff actually won. The rematch is planned for next term.
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1 WCADA visits bring positivity to Youth Clubs
Rachel Thomas from WCADA visited youth clubs across Neath Port Talbot delivering session around positive quotes. The sessions were designed to combat any negative thinking that young people might have at some point in their life. The sessions were set up so that the young people can identify what they would use as a coping method to challenge their own negative thinking. Young people have identified the different methods that they already use to help them with negative thoughts such as, listening to their favourite music or drawing pictures.
Flip chart paper was used so the young people all input their own choices of positive quotes and the flip chart was then left at the club so that it can be put on display for everyone to see.
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1 Liberty Stadium Tour
Young people from Taibach, Crynant and Cwmllynfell Youth Clubs attended a tour of the Liberty Stadium organised by Liam from the Swansea City AFC Community Trust. The youth clubs have been working with the KICKS team throughout the term. Everyone enjoyed learning about behind the scenes at the stadium. Young people had opportunity to check out the home changing rooms, the press room and the meeting rooms. They also had a chance to see how the groundsmen maintain the pitch and sit in the dug out area. Highlights included pretending to be interviewed in the press room, having a look in a hospitality box, seeing the pitch up close and sitting in the most expensive seats in the stadium.
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Welsh Culture
Bryn Youth Club
Young people from Bryn Youth Club had a fun filled evening participating in a youth club Eisteddfod which consisted of a Welsh quiz, St Patricks Day quiz (learning about the history of the Welsh-born patron Saint of Ireland), guess the score in the Six Nations match Wales vs Ireland and best pronunciation of the famous Welsh place name ‘Llanfair PG’. The activities concluded with an alcohol awareness workshop which ended with a game of beer goggles table tennis. The young people and staff were timed playing table tennis with and without the beer goggles on to highlight the effects of alcohol with your decision making and reaction time. Regan Miller and Lewis Hallam both won prizes for their efforts, whilst also gaining an increased knowledge in a variety of subjects all while having fun!
Crynant Youth Club
Crynant Youth Club have been celebrating their Welsh culture this term by making cards to celebrate Dydd Santes Dwynwen, while also participating in a Welsh quiz and a leek eating competition.
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Cwmllynfell Youth Club
The young people from Cwmllynfell went all out to celebrate Dydd Santes Dwynwen and St David’s Day! Activities included sampling some of the most traditional Welsh foods. Yum!
Glynneath Youth Club
The young people participated in activities relating to Dydd Santes Dwynwen delivered by Activity Worker Annmarie. They enjoyed learning about and discussing their Welsh heritage. Bringing their own thoughts and opinions to the activity, it ended with a fun word search competition, which encouraged the participants to develop their personal skills.
6 Young people receive Acclaimed
Awards for Volunteering
Congratulations to Abi Price, Hannah Parel and Erin Sandison who received a number of prestigious awards during 2019 to recognise their outstanding voluntary work with Neath Port Talbot Youth Service and outside agencies. All three young people are elected members of Neath Port Talbot Youth Council.
Erin Sandison and Hannah Parel were both successful at the 2019 High Sherriff Awards and Erin also received an award from the Rotary Club Neath presented by Chris Millis, Head of Participation.
At the recent NPT CVS Volunteering Awards, held on 3rd June all three young people were again recognised for their selfless voluntary service. Winner of the Campaigning and Advocacy award was Abi Price Chair of NPT Youth Council. Abi also volunteers with Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University’s Young People’s Health Board. Abi is pictured receiving her award from Jeremy Miles AM.
7 Young people receive Acclaimed Awards for Volunteering
Erin Sandison was also highly commended for her Campaigning and Advocacy work with NPT Youth Council, NPT Young Carers and Erin also sits on the Well- being team’s mental health group representing Dwr-Y-Felin school. Erin is pictured receiving her award from Jeremey Miles AM.
The special Award Winner of the evening was Hannah Parel who was presented with the Debbie Connolly Special Award from Sally Goldstone, High Sherriff of West Glamorgan. Hannah was desribed as a role mdel, patien, kind and remarkable
Well done to Abi, Erin and Hannah on their fantastic achivement. Also, thank you to Corinne Fry, Senior Youth Officer NPT Youth Service, for supporting the young people at the event.
8 DOWN TO EARTH PROJECT
Neath Port Talbot Legacy Team organised a ten week work experience programme for pupils from Llangatwg and St Josephs. The young people participated in activities that helped to build confidence, self-esteem and team working skills, whilst learning about the world of work. The young people gain an Agored Cymru OCN qualification whilst out on the project.
Our KIT Cam Nesa team have just started another programme at the Down to Earth project. You’ll be able to see what they get up to in the next edition of our magazine!
If you’d like to get involved in a similar project or want to chat about any of the project and activities we have to offer please contact the Youth Service on 01639 763030.
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Western Bay Young Carers Event where the voices of young carers from NPT where listened to and will be fed back to Welsh Government.
Young people from Crynant Youth Club participated in a session to promote Awareness of Young Carers. Young People discussed what it is like being a Young Carer and how taking stepping up to take responsibility can impact on daily life and routine. The young people enjoyed discussing the different scenarios and watching the videos of real life young carers. The also looked at how you would manage your day being a young carer. At the end of the session the group discussed how rewarding it is and what support is available if anyone is or becomes a young carer.
10 WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING
IN YOUR CLUB Blaengwynfi Youth Club
The young people in Blaengwynfi celebrated Valentine’s Day by making rice crispy cakes and chocolate hearts.
Bryncoch Youth Club
The young people had a ‘Bryncoch’s Big Bite’ competition delivered by Activity Worker, Iestyn and Deputy Worker in Charge, Richard. The event was initially to be a leek eating competition, but the leeks were substituted for large spring onions. They were cleaned and trimmed ready to be eaten. The contestants took it in turn to eat the spring onions and were timed. The boys went first, and despite them getting very competitive, Tom took the win in 1 minute and 6 seconds. The girl’s competition went next but there was only ever going to be one winner and that was Mia in an incredible time of just 19 seconds!
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IN YOUR CLUB
Cimla Youth Club
The young people of Cimla Youth Club have been getting creative this term. Firstly, they made rings for Mother’s Day to show their appreciation and love to the person who provides the care, love and respect any mum would. Pictured is Bonnie along with Activity Worker Steffan Newton.
Kai and Shay have also been busy and are pictured showing off their model aeroplanes. The young people really enjoyed the activity which took patience and some creativity. The planes were tested and the all flew across the hall. Great job everyone!
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IN YOUR CLUB
Croeserw Youth Club
New young people visit Croeserw Youth Club to engage in new activities. At the club, they try to integrate young people of all ages to ensure they’re treated with the same respect. One of the favourite activities they like to participate in is football. Through this activity the participants can learn new and develop existing skills. This term the club have welcomes a new cohort of 11 year old primary school Year 6’s that have had the opportunity to engage with existing attendees, with all young people encouraging and supporting each other in the activity which is a skill in itself!
Crynant Youth Club
The young people designed and created their own paper aeroplanes using card, paper, pens and glitter. The aeroplanes were designed to their own style. Once finished, each young person had the chance to throw theirs to see how far it would fly. Activity Worker, Iestyn Roberts, picked two winners. One for the longest flight and the other for the best design!
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IN YOUR CLUB
Crynant and Cwmllynfell Youth Clubs
The young people have been putting their culinary skills to the test this term. They made their own cookies. They learnt about following correct systems in regards to food hygiene and how everything works in the kitchen, which helped the young people a lot as some had no previous kitchen experience. The cookies were shaped and cooked to their own designed. To go with their cookies the young people made themselves the perfect accompaniment, hot chocolate! If making cookies wasn’t original enough, the young people have recently taken their kitchen skills to the next level by making butter from double cream! The participants were amazed at how easy and delicious homemade butter is! They got to enjoy their homemade butter on fresh crumpets. Yum!
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IN YOUR CLUB
Glynneath Youth Club
Young people in Glynneath Youth Club had a great time seeing who could silence the critics, perform under pressure and become the Fortnite Champion of Glynneath! The competition consisted of two games each where points were allocated to how long they stayed alive, number of hits, and highest final positions. Kieran delivered an outstanding game and racked up a massive second round score putting him on top of the pile and winning the Fortnite Funko prize!
The night was a great success but unfortunately the challengers have already started to question Keiran’s right to the throne. It looks like this may become a termly contest to see who gets the local bragging rights!!!
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IN YOUR CLUB
Sandfields Youth Club
Young people in Sandfields have been spoilt for choice in terms of physical activities this term as part of a healthy lifestyle project. The boys participated in a bleep test with Lucas Davies winning after reaching level 18.1! Lucas is the captain of the Welsh under 14’s basketball team. He is a role model to the younger members and encouraged them to take part in the healthy lifestyle project, with his participation motivating younger members to get involved.
The youth club played a basketball match against Kenfig Cougars, who had 4 Welsh internationals playing. In a close encounter, Kenfig finally ran out winners 45-41. This was a fantastic result considering the standard of opposition and the fact it was some of the boys first game of basketball. They now want to make it a regular game. Travis Morgan and Tom Martin shared the ‘Most Valuable Player’ award.
Activity Worker Matthew Davies has been helping the young people learn new skills for defence through his self-defence/jujitsu sessions. The young people learnt what to do if someone grabs them by the throat or gets them in a head lock. This gives the young people an increased knowledge of how to defend themselves if this happened to them outside of club hours.
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Crynant Youth Club
The club is usually limited to one PS4 with just FIFA as a game. The club were treated to the Switch console which gives everyone an opportunity to have a game. Everyone enjoyed playing Mario Kart and Smash Bros helping to bring the club together and provide healthy competition.
Hywel Rose – Activity Worker.
The young people in Crynant Youth Club have been working hard this term towards a team work accreditation. 3 young people from Crynant and 4 young people from Cwmllynfell Youth Club managed to complete the 10 hours required in order to gain the accreditation over the 10 week term. Young people participated in many activities including stepping stones, pass the mime, drain pipes, would you rather and the hula hoop challenge. Through carrying out these activities young people learnt valuable lessons on the importance of effective communication and working as a team. They discovered that through listening, sharing ideas and working together they’re able to complete tasks that, at first, seemed impossible.
Charlotte Miller – Activity Worker.
Sandfields Youth Club
The tuck project is officially up and running. The young people of Sandfields Youth Club have gathered a team to run a tuck shop and take on the big responsibilities! They have a manager, creative director, accountant and a work team. These young people are extremely enthusiastic to get their business up and running! Look out for future ‘The Apprentice’ contestants directly out of Sandfields Youth Club.
Cerys Francis – Activity Worker.
The young people were taught about healthy eating in a tasty fruit kebab session. Everyone participated and bringing knowledge they had learned in school to sort food into categories looking at fruit and veg. Everyone enjoyed and made patterns on their skewers.
Rachel Evans – Activity Worker.
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WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING IN YOUR CLUB
Sandfields Youth Club
The young people participated in a sewing activity which provided a cheap and very creative way to make a lovely gift for the most special person in your life on Mother’s Day. Sewing skills can come in very useful and is a dying art. Jo Thomas -Wellington – Activity Worker. The young people have participated in fitness sessions for a number of weeks and massive improvements in their fitness which is very rewarding. It also demonstrates to the young people that regularly attending these sessions is beneficial to their overall well-being. Andrew Wright – Activity Worker.
Seven Sisters Youth Club The young people had a late Pancake Day celebration by making their very own pancakes. The young people loved having the opportunity to prepare, cook and especially eat the pancakes. Everyone had at least one, with many young people coming back for seconds!
Charlotte Miller – Activity Worker.
Taibach Youth Club The youth club are running monthly forum meetings, and it’s been decided that there’ll be a different chair at each of the meetings. At a recent forum, Jodie was given the role as chair and she did an excellent job of it. Topics discussed included holding a charity pool competition and also a plastic litter pick around the outside of the club.
A netball shootout competition was held with the young people taking shots from different distances and angles of 2 metres, 4 metres and finally 6 metres. There was a prize on offer for anyone that had the longest shot in. Nobody succeeded on the 6 metre distance so no prize was won. Despite no winner it was an eventful night.
18 MEET THE TEAM
Phillip Dean Austin – KIT Worker (and I work at Young Carers) Six words to describe yourself Loyal, trustworthy, forgetful, messy, fun and confident.
How do you spend your spare time? Coaching my son’s football and rugby teams and supporting the mighty Swans.
Favourite film? Top Gun and SNATCH.
If you could invite 3 celebrities to a party, who would you choose? Lee Trundle, Alan Curtis and Aled Davies (as he loves the Swans so much).
Favourite place? Tenby
Most embarrassing moment? I once choked on water in the middle of a swimming race vs Olympic swimmers and had to be pulled out of the pool by the lifeguard.
Favourite food? Italian food.
Top 3 things on your ‘Bucket List’? 1. Watch Swansea play in the Champion’s League final. 2. Watch my son play professional football. 3. See my daughter one day swim for Wales.
Most hated/favourite task? Most hated is paper work. Favourite is the Down to Earth project.
Favourite quote? Being nice costs nothing!
What pet do you have and why did you choose it? No pets! I am very busy and don’t have time sadly.
Proudest moment? The birth of my two fabulous children.
19 Quick Music and Movie Quiz
Groups or Solo Artists Movies
1. What is Kendrick Lamar’s real surname? 5. Which Pixar trilogy became a 2. Who was the drummer in Nirvana? quadrilogy in June 2019? 3. The musical Mamma Mia is based on 6. How many films are in the Rocky which band’s music? movie franchise to date? 4. Which Scottish signer recently had a 7. What is the name of the actor that number 1 with ‘Someone you Loved’? played Harry Potter? 8. Which Disney movie does the Cheshire Cat appear in?
Can you solve our brainteaser?
Find the weight of the animals below
Answers on the back page
20 Glynneath Cwmllynfell Blaengwynfi Youth Club Youth Club Bryn Youth Club Youth Club The Training Centre The Welfare Hall The Library and
The Community Centre Public Hall Thurs 6:00pm-8:30pm Tues 6:30pm-8:30pm
Weds 6:30pm-8:30pm Fri 6:00pm – 8:00pm Wed 5:45pm-7:45pm
Seven Sisters Youth Club Bryncoch Crynant Youth Club Cymmer Youth Club Youth Club The Community Centre The Community Centre Cymer Afan The Community Centre Comprehensive Thurs 6:30pm-8:30pm Tues 6:00pm-8:00pm Thurs 7:00pm-9:00pm Fri 6:00pm-8:00pm Tues 5:30pm-7:30pm Fri 5:00pm-7:00pm
Taibach Croeserw Youth Club Youth Club Sandfields Cimla Youth Club Youth Club The Community The Community The Community Centre Enterprise Centre Education Centre YSGOL BAE BAGLAN
Mon 6:00pm-8:00pm Tue 7:00pm-9:00pm Mon 6:00pm-8:00pm Tues 7:00pm-9:00pm Thurs 7:00pm-9:00pm Thurs 7:00pm–9:00pm Fri 6:00pm-8:00pm 21
Neath Port Talbot Pharmacies Offering
Emergency Hormonal Contraception
Name of Pharmacy Address of Pharmacy Telephone No. A Sparkes, Medicine Centre 153, Windsor Rd, Tel: 01639 637117 Neath.
Bailey SR, 53, Jersey Rd, Blaengwynfi Tel: 01639 850317 Bailey SR, Station Rd, Cymmer Tel: 01639 850238 Bailey SR, 58, Church Rd, Seven Sisters Tel: 01639 700271 Boots, Aberavon Centre, Port Talbot Tel: 01639 883809 Boots, 4, Water St, Neath Tel: 01639 638744 Cecil Jones 101, High St, Glynneath Tel: 01639 720328 Dyffryn Pharmacy, 55, Main Rd, Dyffryn Cellwyn Tel: 01639 700213 Lloyds, Shop 6, Morrison Rd, Port Talbot Tel: 01639 883045 Lloyds, 38, Marsh St, Port Talbot Tel: 01639 884300 Lloyds, Baglan Retail Park, Port Talbot Tel: 01639 814580 Lloyds, 62, Herbert St, Pontardawe Tel: 01792 863903
Co-op Pharmacy, Herbert St, Pontardawe Tel: 01792 863217 Co-op Pharmacy, Cwmllynfell Tel: 01639 830209 Co-op Pharmacy 126, London Rd, Tel: 01639 643472 Neath
Co-op Pharmacy 37, New Rd, Skewen Tel: 01792 812250 Co-op Pharmacy, 20A, Victoria Rd, Port Tel: 01639 883473 Talbot
Rob Davies 103, Neath Rd, Briton Ferry Tel: 01639 812291
Taibach (Pearns) Pharmacy 76, Commercial Rd Tel: 01639 885607
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25 Family Information Service
The NPT Family Information Service (FIS) is a free information service for families living in, or looking for services in the NPT County Borough area. It provides up-to-date information about services such as Childcare Provision, Health and Wellbeing Services, Leisure and Sport opportunities (clubs, associations etc.), Financial Support Services and more. FIS has access to an extensive database and will signpost to services on it or to other service providers within the NPT structure. During holidays FIS also produce a “What’s On” guide, which helps parents and carers plan the holiday periods and find things to do for them and their children. The service can be accessed via its website (www.nptfamily.com), email ([email protected]) Facebook Page (NPT Family), Twitter (@NPT Family) and also by telephone - 01639 873018. The website also has a virtual library of information that addresses specific issues that might benefit parents and carers.
For further information or any queries contact the Youth Service on
01639 763030 or email [email protected]
Answers to the Trivia and Brain Teaser on page 16
Music: 1: Duckworth 2: Dave Grohl 3: Abba 4: Lewis Capaldi
Movies: 5: Toy Story 6: Eight 7: Daniel Radcliffe 8: Alice in Wonderland
Brainteaser: The answer to the brainteaser is:
Bear = 60kg Rabbit = 10kg Fox = 20kg
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