On Thursday 27th 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 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.
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.
We have been delighted to continue our beautiful partnership with The University of the Arts, London’s Widening Participation Programme. In July, young people from the centre attended a set of four Jewellery design workshops led by Helmert Robbertsen and the widening participation team at the University. The young people were taught about the design process and developing their own jewellery blueprints. They were then given the unique opportunity to take these designs to the next stage – making their own pieces on site at Central St Martin’s. A range of dazzling designs were created using plastics. Young people were
instructed and learnt quickly how to use different techniques to create something really special! The winning design was created by Giovanna for her spectacular ‘blue ice’ pieces. Well done everyone for all of your hard work and THANK YOU! to Helmert, Holly, Tessa, Berni and Jackie for this fantastic project! Check out the bliiiing!
Ed Byrne, Al Murray, Dara O’Briain and friends wowed a packed audience at the Prince Edward Theatre in London’s West End on Monday 18th July 2011. Over a 1000 supporters turned up for what was a fantastic evening of comedy and fun including performances from the New Horizon Choir, Jon Snow and Mara Carlyle. This fundraising event raised much needed revenue for the centre and will be the first of many. It included other talented comedians: Dan Antopolski, Lucy Porter, JJ Whitehead, Simon Evans, Tom Allen, and Matt Kirschen.
Jon Snow stole the show and the auction when prompted by the audience, he took his socks off and auctioned them along with his ties. The lucky recipient was Dara O’Briain who paid an inordinate amount for these prized items.
Jon Snow’s socks have made it into Friday 22nd Telegraph. Page 8, you can read this online here:
We were delighted that the IiP Standard was renewed in April 2011. Congratulations to all concerned!
In the words of our assessor on the day:
‘Not only were the core requirements of the Standard met, but also the additional six evidence requirements selected from the wider framework in relation to social responsibility.
The whole organisation could be held up as a good practice model of an Investor in People and senior managers have agreed they would be happy to be contacted as a potential case study’.
This programme is successfully addressing the demand from young homeless people attending New Horizon for realistic education, employment and training opportunities. It addresses barriers that prevent these young people engaging with learning, to develop their employment skills and secure employment. We’ve committed to raising £90,000 via Global Giving to help develop this programme. Please donate by following the link below:
http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/creating-positive-futures-work-programme/
This Weekend Programme at New Horizon delivers AQA accredited vocational key skills and the Skills for Life Programme to enhance the employability of a minimum of 200 homeless young people per year. We’ve committed to raising £35,000 via The Big Give to help develop this programme. Please donate by following the link below:
http://new.thebiggive.org.uk/projects/view/10633?search=7ca907e7-7e0a-4fd2-b915-09744e99fba3
