NCS Action Day
Over 235 teens from Yorkshire & Humber will be actively volunteering as part of NCS Action Day between the 18th– 21st March.
NCS Action Day is a day where NCS Grads from across the UK will come together and celebrate all the work they have done to support good causes in their local communities’. In Yorkshire and Humber, EFL Trust have had over 16,000 young people partake in National Citizen Service (NCS) delivering over 500,000 hours of social action in their local community.
Action Day is a chance for NCS graduates to shout out loud about their social action achievements, deliver a project as a collective and make a positive impact on their community.
Graduates in Yorkshire and Humber are set to be very busy during NCS Action Day having planned 8 projects across the region. Take a look what some of them will be up to;
Tigers Trust – Over 100 NCS Graduates and Summer 2017 participants will come together to complete the ‘Conga of Culture’ in Hull City Centre. The Conga will work to raise awareness of local mental health provision in partnership with staff and volunteers from the beneficiary charity, MIND. Read more https://www.hull2017.co.uk/discover/article/challenge-hull-week-11-conga-culture/.
Club Doncaster Foundation – 40 Graduates will be working alongside Doncaster Rovers Football Club & Dons Rugby Club to deliver an intergenerational project with elderly and vulnerable adults, putting on activities such as bingo, arts and crafts and soft refreshments.
Sheffield United Community Foundation – It’s Penalty Shoot-out time at Bramall Lane!! Graduates from Sheffield United will be raising money for Prostate Cancer by holding a penalty shoot-out on the pitch before kick-off at Sheffield United v Charlton Athletic (Saturday18th March). Graduates will also be speaking to fans raising awareness and doing a bucket collection.
Tony Buck, Youth Engagement Officer at EFL Trust said: “The skills and experience that young people gain whilst participating in NCS, are designed to equip them, to continue making a positive difference in their communities. NCS Action Day, is an opportunity to showcase and celebrate all the incredible things our NCS Graduates do all year round. We are very proud of all the hard work that Graduates have been doing in preparation for Action Day and look forward to seeing the difference their projects will make from Saturday 18th March.”
All the social action projects which are part of the NCS programme are a fundamental part of the skills learnt and developed by young people.
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