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Oct 01 2024

Respect in the woods with Essex Boys and Girls Clubs

This morning we spent some time down in the woods with students from one of the Colchester secondary schools on the Essex Boys and Girls Clubs Respect Project.  The Respect Project is an early intervention programme for 13-14 year olds, designed to help young people in school Year 9 to increase their ability to deal […]

Feb 09 2023

Bringing a splash of colour to Colchester

Last Sunday we visited The Outhouse in Colchester to film some of the young people who attend the project. The OutHouse is a charity that provides opportunities for LGBTQ+ people in Essex.  They run a large programme of services which includes counselling, social events and support groups.  The VVU has helped fund a youth counsellor […]

Oct 13 2022

Extra support for our Essex families (October 2022)

The Violence and Vulnerability Unit has, for the last academic year, funded two Team Around the Family Support Officers (TAFSOs) after the Vulnerable School’s Index highlighted two geographical locations where a specific place based TAFSO would have the greatest impact. The role of a TAFSO is to provide support to any professional in Essex who […]

Jul 11 2022

Go through the Yellow Door

Yellow Door is the name of Canvey Island’s youth project. The project can be found through a bright yellow door, in a cheerful, colourful building on Poplar Road. The youth project has been on this site since 2017 providing a range of information, support, activities, education and interventions to young people on the Island. Yellow […]

Jul 11 2022

Our new project: ReRoute (June 2022)

We are working on a new project called ReRoute.  This project works with young people who have been arrested on possession of carrying a knife but who are waiting to be charged to court. There can be a considerable amount of time between arrest and a court date; by working in this time period to […]

Jul 11 2022

The success of detached youth work (June 2022)

We are consistently told by young people across Essex they want safe activities to participate in and safe places to meet, alongside adults they can talk to and trust. For the past 18 months we’ve worked with Essex Council of Voluntary Youth Services (ECVYS) and Active Essex to fund detached youth workers in areas of […]