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The High Sheriff of Bristol funds a range of activities for young people in communities of disadvantage to provide opportunities for positive and constructive engagement in play to reduce crime and youth offending in those communities. These activities include sport, drama, art, caving, climbing, canoeing and many others.
Bristol Youth and Community Action (BYCA) holiday funding will be allocated to offer extra support to partnerships operating in areas of the city that have been identified as lacking accessible provision for school holiday activities for young people.
Most of the projects and activities receiving funds take place during the half-term or summer school holidays. BYCA makes two types of award; one provides the holiday activities described above while the other provides for Community Action Grants where young people influence the type of activity that takes place.
Click here to download the criteria for holiday funding 2011
Click here to download key dates for BYCA funding 2011
Click here to download for application forms for the Easter holiday funding 2011
Click here to download for application forms for the Whitsun holiday funding 2011
If you need any assistance with applying for BYCA funding please contact us;
BYCA co-ordinator: Lee Williams, LW@youngbristol.com , telephone number: 0117 953 7921
The objective of BYCA is to enrich the lives of young people from diverse communities and from a range of backgrounds. From the feedback we receive in our post-activity evaluation, it is clear that BYCA funds generate a large reservoir of goodwill by encouraging volunteering, the free use of premises and by providing positive alternative opportunities for young people. In areas where few out-of-school activities are found and where there is no funding from local or other government money, BYCA can assist community-based organisations to apply for funding to support their programmes.
BYCA provided funding for 21 activities during summer 2010 and for further schemes during the October 2010 and February 2011 half-term holidays. These holiday schemes will have engaged more than 4,500 young people in activities that build skills, challenge their prejudices, enhance their self-esteem and much more besides.
BYCA-funded activities do have an impact on community safety. When comparing the six-week 2010 summer period with the last three years, Henbury and Brentry recorded a 12% reduction in reported anti-social behaviour while a 38% reduction was reported in Crow Lane.
‘Thank you and your team; you don’t realise how you have influenced my son. This is because of your support and the activities’, said a parent from the Henbury and Brentry area whose child participated in a targeted, 200 place play scheme organised by HABAT.
BYCA meets at least four times a year for this purpose. It is important to emphasise that there are minimal administrative costs arising from the operation of BYCA. Members of the BYCA panel include representatives from the Youth and Play Services, Bristol Youth Offending Team and Safer Bristol Partnership (all from Bristol City Council), Connexions West of England, Avon and Somerset Constabulary, Young Bristol, Quartet Community Foundation, donors and High Sheriffs past, present and future.
Quartet Community Foundation manages the High Sheriff’s Fund but Bristol Youth and Community Action (BYCA) carries out the allocation of those funds.
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