YOUTH & SCHOOLS

Wendover Youth Centre Update

Wendover Youth Centre’s Lead Youth Worker Pete Swinford and staff members from Premier Education are currently training to run the Milton Keynes Half Marathon on May Bank Holiday Monday 2 May. They are teaming up to raise money for the Bucks Activity Project which works with children across Buckinghamshire who do not have access to physical activity due to disability and provide short break activities for them.

They plan to raise £1000 for the Bucks Activity Project to ensure that these activities can continue and young people with disabilities can access physical activity.

If you would like to support this fundraising effort, please donate through the following link www. justgiving.com/fundraising/premierchilterns.

For more information about what the Bucks Activity Project provides please visit their website: www.actionforchildren.org.uk.

Chiltern Way Community Café

Students from the Chiltern Way Academy, Wendover Campus, set up a pop-up café at the Holy Trinity Church Hall in March for the local community to attend. The students provided homemade afternoon tea, cakes, sandwiches, sausage rolls and a chat amongst friends. The event was heavily supported by the community and allowed the students to build positive relationships with their customers whilst giving the students the opportunity of work experience. Nick Hall, Head of Work Ways at Chiltern Way Academy, said: "The community café allows our students to run an enterprise project and gain valuable work skills and life skills. The café provides a friendly and welcoming meeting space for the community to gather, as well as providing an opportunity for the local community to learn more about our school, what we do and get a real insight into its students. The students plan the menu and then set up and run the café largely independently. The students did a wonderful job managing our busiest event yet and the customer feedback has been great."

One customer said, “We were blown away by ... all the effort and the manner in which the students conducted themselves. What a fabulous achievement.”

The next event for the pop-up café is on Tuesday 5 April at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Prestwood.