The cardboard boat race is a highlight of the Rotary Club annual water festival in Bideford. This year Bideford youth centre liaised with the Rotary Club to develop a stronger youth presence at the event. Our young volunteers helped set [...]
Last year, a very special volunteer at Bideford youth centre passed away. Gina Scoynes had been volunteering with us for a long time and grew to become a very special part of the team. Here are a few words [...]
Project group ‘Vspace’ from Bideford Creative Hub, recently joined young photographers from the ‘artists rooms’ programme on a visit to Tate modern in London. The group experienced a world leading contemporary art gallery and explored how they were using [...]
So...We held our first 'Hangouts' quiz last night, and I couldn't be more pleased with how it all went. We had five youth centres linked online Bideford as the host centre and four teams competing. It was a very [...]
Following a refurb and rebrand, Poundstore reopened this week and offered a trolley dash to a local charity. They approached Bideford Town Council to advise on who should benefit. Our Mayor, Dermot McGeough, strongly suggested we should be chosen - Thanks! [...]
Our young volunteers helped put together a beach session at Instow with an open invitation to young people from other clubs to join us. We shared beach games, music and laughs with folk from Barnstaple youth centre, Explore and carewise, [...]
As part of our summer programme a small number of juniors from our monday session were picked to have a day exploring fun in a local woodland. They learnt to identify different tree species, the importance of coppice management, made [...]
Young people from the centre worked with staff to build a cardboard boat for a race at our local water festival. this was an interesting challenge and alot of fun. Staff crewed the boat in the race and didn't come [...]
Bideford Pride 2017 North Devon's first ever Pride march started from Bideford Youth Centre on Saturday. Young people from the centre took an active part in the march and then ran activities and a teen tent at the one day festival [...]
Young people from the Wednesday and Thursday session are building a 3-metre dragon boat out of cardboard for the staff to enter our local charity cardboard boat race. Pics to follow.
