A New Vision - A New Idea - A New Issue

Issue 4 - July 2011

This YoUFA News is packed full of little snippets of what’s going on around the country giving you a little flavour of all the great things going on around the YoUFA network!

Keep reading to find out more on the recent YoUFA Board Meeting, The brand new YoUFA Publication and so much more…!

Remember to pass on the word about the YoUFA Network! It’s getting bigger and we want to make sure every young person is part of it! So tell all your friends about it! And suggest the UFA - YoUFA page to your friends on Facebook!

Visit our website

www.youfa.co.uk and our Facebook page and make sure you have your say!

If you want to know more about how you can join the YoUFA network, how you can get involved or simply want to say Hello! Then I want to hear from you. You can contact me in many ways…have a read and all the different channels of communication shall be revealed.

Until next time!

Insia :-)

NEWS

Welcome from the Youth Ambassador!Hello and welcome to the summer issue of YoUFA News! The last couple of months have been busy here at UFA with lots of new and exciting plans for the development of YoUFA. We are soon approaching a year since YoUFiestA 2010 and reflecting back it has been one very interesting year. The YoUFA Board has now been running for 2 years with our 6th Board Meeting on its way and the YoUFA network is continuing to grow with more young people joining the network.

I have been busy enjoying the sunshine and celebrating my 2nd year as a Youth Ambassador but in my 10th year as part of my UFA journey since it began at school in Year 9.

Inside this issue...

‘By 2014 YoUFA will be a strong, vibrant network and a widely recognised national network’(continues on page 3)

YoUFA Vision

‘YoUFA is amazing, a great opportunity for you to learn new skills, meet awe-some new friends and help yourself...’(continues on page 2)

Rachel’s Story

In the YoUFA guide we aim to give you some useful info for planning and running your own club...(continues on page 3)

Publishing Team

SHOUT about it!(Page 4)

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Is there anything you would change about your UFA journey?No, it’s been fabulous so far; just want to continue my journey with the UFA.

We want to know more about you! One thing you love and that motivated you? I love working with children!! My ambition to become a teacher and see young people learning is what motivates me.

What are your future plans with the UFA and YoUFA?Currently a YoUFA Board member, just want to continue being a part of it all and get some more projects going and more and more young people involved.

What would you say to other young people out

there who haven’t joined the YoUFA network yet?

Every part of YoUFA is amazing, it’s a great

opportunity for you to learn new skills, meet awesome

new friends and help yourself for the future.

What is your funniest memory?erm, getting stuck in a raft during the Lead Learner Training? :P Go UFA!:P

YoUFiestA 2010 saw about 200 young people come

together to a Learning Festival run by young

people for young people to celebrate, reward, reunite,

raise awareness and have some fun and relax!

Well the next YoUFiestA is going to be bigger and we want to hear from U!

What do you want to see at the next YoUFiestA?

How do you want to be involved?

What idea’s do you have?

Get in touch!

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Tell me about your journey with the UFA and yourinvolvement with YoUFA?My journey Started by train-ing as a Peer Tutor in year 9, carried on to train as a Lead Learner and ran a year7 club for a year. Created, Planned and ran an Apprentice

Project. Trained and became an Apprentice Tutor for the

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What is your best memory in your UFA journey?The whole Lead Learner

project, getting to work with year 7s where I’m leading. and the young people enjoy themselves.

What impact has it had on you as an individual?UFA has made me more confident as a person, more open-minded to try new things and more versatile to be able to do many different activities.

What have you learnt?How to be a Leader, how to plan and run a club or event, working as a team, confidence and new skills.

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The 1st ever YoUFA Publication is in print! The YoUFA Publishing Team worked on editing and designing the new publication

‘STUFF U need to know to run a club’

Message from the YoUFA Publishing Team;

Check this stuff out! In the YoUFA guide we aim to give you some useful info for planning and running your own club, including recruiting people, keeping them safe and celebrating what they have done.

We want you to get involved and help make UFA bigger and better. You will gain some important skills

and loads of confidence by running your very own club. Have a go. We know you can do it! Go tell

your friends and have fun at the same time as doing something really worthwhile. You will joining an

amazing group of young people who have done just that and show that young people really can do it for

themselves.

The guide is written and designed especially for you by us. We are the YoUFA Publishing Team and wish you good luck! Remember to tell us when you do use it

and what you are up to.

Also, its FREE to download from the YoUFA website (www.youfa.co.uk) and while you’re there remember to sign up the YoUFA network that’s FREE too and well worth it!

Georgina, Kieran, Safiya, Ashleigh, Ben, Joel and Summaiya - YoUFA Publishing Team

Publishing Team: Leading Writers

The YoUFA Board has now been running for almost 2 years and has had 5 meetings. The main purpose of the YoUFA board continues to focus on young people’s leadership, voice and influence in the continuing development of YoUFA.

The last board meeting focused on the future of YoUFA and the board worked on putting a vision and a YoUFA development plan together. The YoUFA Board decided that YoUFA could also be local where young people are able to make new friends, build

their confidence and self esteem, get support,

encouragement and step up to lead others

making sure every young person’s voice is heard.

YoUFA’s Vision:

‘By 2014 YoUFA will be a strong, vibrant

network and a widely recognised national network of a least

2000 young people with 9 regional Youth Ambassadors representing young people at the national YoUFA Board, YoUFA will run a celebration event for young people and have evidence of the impact YoUFA has had on its members’

(YoUFA Board Members - March 2011)

We want to know what you think? And any ideas you have about how you and your school could be part in making this vision a reality.

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There are lots of ways you can get in touch check out the ‘Shout about it!’ section.

The next YoUFA Board Meeting is on Saturday 23rd July 2011 we will keep you all updated just make sure you check our Facebook page for latest updates.

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Would you like to gain credit for the work you have done as a Lead Learner or YoUFA rep?

We can offer accreditation through the Open College Network (OCN). It is called ‘Young Leader training’.

You will need to spend some time putting a folder of evidence together which contains your comments,photos, club plans, together with some witness and feedback statements from the adult who supported you.

Caz and Insia would be very happy to help you to do it!

Just get in touch with us!It’s a great opportunity to build up your CV in preparation for college

interviews, your UCAS personal statement and

it will even look fantastic when presenting it to an

employer.

Interested?Get in touch!

UFA were through to the FINAL stages of the People’s Millions to run a fantastic project in Birmingham called Lead it! to provide opportunities for young people across Birmingham inspiring them to become young leaders and train them to lead fun, challenging exciting clubs for other

young people in their communities.

The UFA team, young people and lots of people all around the coun-try joined us with our campaigning to try win this money and make the project into a reality. Unfortunately this time it wasn’t for us but that does not mean it is over! Just a pit stop in the journey. We want to say a massive thank you to everyone who picked up the phone and voted for us. We had a great time during the whole process and had some of the most interesting conversations and met amazing people along the way. We are still determined to make this project into a reality so if you have any ideas about how we can

do this or maybe know of some local pots of money just waiting to be used to run some UFA activity then please get in touch. Let’s

get our creative hats on and find exciting ways of making Lead it! happen. Watch this space.

If you would like to see our video that broadcasted on ITV Central news then follow this link:

http://www.itv.com/central-west/peoples-millions-ufa06900/

Have something to say then we want to hear it! There are many ways you can get in touch!

Facebook - Search UFA- YoUFA Email - Insia@ufa.org.ukText/Phone - 07980673574YouTube - Search Super YoUFAPostal Address -See below

SHOUT about it!: Share YoUFA and UFA with someone new each week!

Lead it!People’s Millions:

Make it happen!

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