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Benefits Of Giving Young People At The Start Of A New Session

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Introduction: Giving young people the chance to plan what activities they do in their groups is important to develop their confidence and let them grow as individuals, learning about what their strengths and their weaknesses. In my project at the start of a new session, usually after the summer and winter breaks, we ask the young people of a group what different activities they would like to do in the coming months.one given these ideas staff will ask the young people to develop them further together, for instence if they suggest baking we’d get the young people to think about what they want to bake exactually and when they would like to do it. Staff take away these suggestions and work on a plan using all the information that the young people gave us to make a plan for activity that the young people have asked for. Planning an activity The group was aware of the yearly christmas fete that the project runs and had decided that they would like to help by baking cookies to sell. They approached staff and asked if it was an activity they would be able to do, so staff sat down with them and worked out with them the details i.e what kinda cookies they wanted to make, what cutters to use and how many they thought the would need to make. Using all the information that the young people gave us we made a plan and got a few recipes that they could choose from and got all the ingredients ready for the group. when the group started staff said to the young people that we would

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