Is your club on the Essex Youth Map?
Back in June 2024 Essex Council for Voluntary Youth Services set up the Essex Youth Map, an online resource for young people showing what activities are available locally. Working with ECVYS we are encouraging Essex youth groups to upload their details to the Essex Map so we have a comprehensive resource detailing all the great […]
Driving down knife crime
Sceptre is the name of the intensification week when Police Forces across the country focus activity and carry out extra and specific operations, to reduce knife crime. This year the week took place from 13 November and the VVU played its part in the awareness activity by encouraging our funded projects which work with our […]
Industry Recognition for VVU Knife Harm campaign
We are delighted that our successful knife harm awareness campaign – that encourages parents to have a conversation with their children about the dangers of knife harm – has received awards in three recent industry events. In the European Agency Awards the campaign won first place in the not-for-profit category for best use of social […]
Youth Voice Day 2024
We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part in Essex Youth Voice Day 2024. Young People from across Southend, Essex and Thurrock gathered together at Anglia Ruskin University on Saturday 12 October to take part in this really special day. Organised by Essex Council for Voluntary Youth Services and Essex […]
Ready, Respect, Safe Week at Chelmsford College
The VVU took time out last week to visit Chelmsford College’s Ready, Respect, Safe Week, which evolved from the PRISE (Prepare, Respect, Inspire, Safe, Engage) Week the college ran in 2023. Ready, Respect, Safe, is a week that sits alongside the college’s regular timetabled learning, but their life skills classes are taken over by guest […]
Bringing together all Violence Reduction Units
Last week members of the VVU attended a two-day event in Reading with the Home Office and hosted by Thames Valley Violence Reduction Partnership. The event bought together all the 22 Violence Reduction Units (of which Essex VVU is one). The first day was focused on working with our Home Office partners on the Serious […]
