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Warm your Vocal Chords with staff and young people from NHYC

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:32:19 +0000

We have a pitch inside Euston station on Monday 12^thDecember 2011 between 15.00 and 19.00. We shall be singing carols and other Christmas songs to raise money for NHYC’s Christmas provision for young homeless people. Lyrics will be provided. We need high volume and as many hands on deck as possible as four hours is a lot of singing. If you have a half hour or longer to spare come and join us. Do let us know when you can attend by e-mailing info@nhyouthcentre.org.uk

Thanksgiving Day Service for New Horizon -24th November 2011

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:06:04 +0000

The American Church in London kindly selected the centre as the beneficiary of The Thanksgiving Day Service for the American Community in London at St Paul’s Cathedral. Members of staff and young people attended the service where The Reverend Dr Barry Gaeddert, Senior Pastor, The International Community Church, Surrey explained about the work of the centre and the needs of young homeless people especially coming up to Christmas. The offering from the service will go towards young people’s Christmas at the centre, when every young person receives a gift of warm clothing and toiletries. The centre will be open every day throughout the period and good food and festivities will be shared with all young people.

New Horizon is featured on the LVSC web-site – see link attached.

New Horizon Youth Centre case study on VSF web pages

Youth Homelessness Is At Crisis Point

admin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:14:29 +0000

At a Celebrating Partnerships event on Wednesday 16^thNovember, 150 organisations attended – Shelagh O’Connor, Director of New Horizon Youth Centre said “The numbers of young people we are seeing has increased by 20% in the past six months and yet there are fewer and fewer emergency spaces for these vulnerable young people. The situation is exacerbated by Government cuts, Local Authority cuts, and the reduction in the availability of private rented sector accommodation and the proposed welfare reforms. The lack of appropriate options for young people will mean that they end up on the streets of London rough sleeping with all the ensuing problems that this will bring for their own futures and for society in general”.

The event launched a new partnership with the Depaul UK ‘Night Stop Plus’ which will secure volunteers to provide emergency bed spaces in people’s homes for someone at risk for up to six weeks New Horizon Youth
Centre will provide a package of support in this window of opportunity to find move on an accommodation and to help that young person into independent living through the range of offers at the Centre.

Speaking about the event, Shelagh said “more is required, we need new thinking, we need Local Authorities, Central Government and the voluntary sector working together to reduce the pressures on accommodation in London and to ensure that a prevention agenda is foremost.”

Sailing on the Horizon

admin — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:34:10 +0000

In October six young people from the centre attended a sailing residential for a week with Cremyll Sailing www.cremyll-sailing.org.uk who provide sailing experience to young people to develop character, build self-esteem and an awareness of the needs of others through teamwork and a shared adventure. We certainly had an adventure! We were split into two teams – setting the sails, steering and participating in life on board; finding out about the weather and tides and charts by navigating the boat. We were set a task to sail from The Isle of Wight to Plymouth… Unfortunately having to stop at Weymouth due to extremely strong gales but after sailing for eighteen hours on the last day (in very choppy seas!) we finally made it to Plymouth!

Thank you to Skipper Tom and Conall for looking after us and ensuring everyone who sailed passed their RYA Competent Crew Certificate!

A Big Thank You from the Young People at New Horizon

admin — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:23:24 +0000

‘I just wanted to write a massive, big THANK YOU for your generous donation to our comic library for homeless and vulnerable young people at New Horizons Youth Centre following my comic youth project there with House of Illustration. We received over 100 comics and graphic novels from Manga to Super hero comics and Indi. Good stuff!

Many thanks to: Mark Haylock, Karen Rubins, Ellen Lindner, Sean Azzopardi, Mike Medaglia, William Morris, Paul Gravett, Jude Fransman, Jonathan Plackett, Kripa Joshi, Jared and Oliver Pickles and OK comics and to Alex Bowler and Jonathan Cape for their generous support. And a HUGE thank you to Emily Jost and the House of Illustration staff and to New Horizon members and staff… and most of all to Mark Cruise for his endless support and genuine love of comics!

Many, many Thanks! I hope the following photos will show you how much the young people appreciate it!’

Karrie Fransman

New Horizon wins FA award

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:10:09 +0000

On Thursday 27^th October, the London branch of the Football Association (FA) held their Grassroots Football award ceremony at Stamford Bridge – home of Chelsea FC. Alex Eagle – our Sports & Mens Worker picked up the award for ‘Inclusion Partner of the year’ in acknowledgement of his efforts in encouraging those from a highly disadvantaged background to get involved with Football in London. Well Done Alex.

Congratulations

shelagh.oconnor — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:40:32 +0000

Congratulations to the New Horizon team who all successfully completed the Royal Parks Half Marathon on Sunday.

Robert Barnes, Katy Barnes, Leo Cador Pemberton, Jane Bancroft, Tomàs O’Connor, Stella Hamada and Shelagh O’Connor.

A big thank you to our fantastic sponsors. Your on-going support is much appreciated.

Comic Library Launch

shelagh.oconnor — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:07:08 +0000

In June and July, House of Illustration and New Horizon – along with artist: Karrie Fransman ran a series of illustration workshops with our young people. This was to help our clients develop greater communication (visual & verbal) skills and confidence through structured creative image making. The idea of using comics was particularly relevant for New Horizon, where young people are also passing on their stories and ideas to each other.

Following on from the great success of this project, New Horizon has now opened a Comic Library – courtesy of donations from publishers and individuals – initiated by Karrie. We have over 100 titles available for our young people to borrow. These are a great aid to literacy, communication and it is sure to be a popular endeavour.

Finalist: 2011 Lord Mayor’s Dragon Award

shelagh.oconnor — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:25:58 +0000

New Horizon Youth Centre was a finalist in the Community Partner’s 2011 Dragon Awards. Our partnership with Buzzacott Accountants focuses on giving young homeless people a real opportunity to secure employment in the corporate sector and readiness for work training. New Horizon also receives coaching in marketing skills from Buzzacott staff – helping to generate additional revenue for the Centre.

Please follow the link below to the video:

http://www.dragonawards.org.uk/blog/

Communities Working Together

shelagh.oconnor — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:15:23 +0000

Our building is based within the Levita House Estate in Chalton St. Following a magnificent donation from Olympus Keymed to support a garden project, we have worked with the residents of Levita House to landscape the courtyard and to create a community space for everyone.. This work came to fruition yesterday when the residents, local councillors, young people and
staff from New Horizon, the London Wildlife trust and Network Rail all worked together to plant the new garden. We all had such fun, met new neighbours, made friends and produced, as you can see from the photos, such a fantastic result.