Fitzrovia Youth in Action supported a group of young women from Maria Fedelis Upper School for Girls in putting together a dance performance which was staged at Sadler’s Wells Theatre last week. The Time of Your Life Dance Show was the final product of FYA teaming up with Maria Fidelis and London Youth. Shelly, Susana [...]
Posted in Drugs Peer Education, News on 29. Mar, 2011
Three groups of young peer educators devised and delivered separate drugs and alcohol projects which were show-cased in youth clubs across Camden. FYA worked in partnership with Kilburn Youth Station and delivered two photo project about youth drinking culture called ‘Dream or Reality?’ and ‘Camden Night Out’. FYA also worked with South Camden Youth Access [...]
Our under 12s football team won the trophy at an end of season round-robin tournament held in Regents Park on Saturday 19th March. We entered an ‘A’ and a ‘B’ team who played against Pro-Touch Community U12’s and Independent Soccer School (ISS) U12’s. First our A-team drew 1-all against ISS and later on beat Pro-Touch [...]
Posted in News on 22. Mar, 2011
Metro Bank have opened a new branch in Tottenham Court Road and staff at the bank have decided to support Fitzrovia Youth in Action as their chosen charity. FYA were presented with a £1,000 donation at the grand opening event of the new branch. Apart from providing financial support, Metro Bank staff working at the [...]
Posted in News on 21. Mar, 2011
Fitzrovia Youth in Action recently hosted a visit by a delegation from Turkey, consisting of government officials and a number of its voluntary sector partners. The delegation included a Head of Department of the Interior Ministry, a Mayor and Secretary General from two municipalities, the Director for Amnesty International in Turkey and representatives from two [...]
Fitzrovia Youth in Action is proud to announce a collaboration with the Fitzrovia Partnership, an association of businesses based in the local area. Tony Garratt, who works as an Ambassador for the Partnership, is also a qualified football coach and since February has been helping to deliver football coaching sessions to our Under 12’s team [...]
Posted in News on 08. Mar, 2011
Local resident Neil Stainton has helped Arsenal FC produce a track for commercial release together with a video. The track, called Sing Our Own Song, will be released on 11 April 2011 on i Tunes and was produced with young people from the Arsenal in the Community programme working together with professional artists. The track is a [...]
It’s been a long and eventful season at Camden’s Regent’s Park League. The under 12s team had their work cut out from the beginning: the opposition was strong and our boys had to learn to cope with playing against some quality teams who had been playing together and training within a club environment for years. [...]
Posted in Drugs Peer Education, News, On Road on 08. Mar, 2011
Shisha Smoking in Camden. Our young film enthusiasts have been interviewing people around the Camden borough in order to get an insight into the reasons why people smoke Shisha and how much is known about the health risks. Since the smoking ban Shisha has been transported onto the pavement into full view of the passing [...]
Posted in Drugs Peer Education, News on 07. Mar, 2011
Fitzrovia Youth in Action teamed up with Coram’s Fields Youth Project to deliver an exciting arts project. A group of young volunteers from South Camden devised and build a drugs and alcohol game which aims to signpost players to reliable sources of information about drugs and alcohol, help educate and evaluate the participants’ knowledge and [...]
Posted in Drugs Peer Education, Healthy Living Project, News, On Road on 10. Feb, 2011
On Tuesday 18th January a group of young people from the Healthy Living Project had a rare opportunity to visit the custody suite at Albany Street Police Station. The station is fully functional but is only used when there is a shortage of cells on busy days. The visit was a part of the group’s [...]
Posted in Healthy Living Project, News on 10. Feb, 2011
The healthy living project has just started its boxing AQA. The young people will be doing a 10 week non contact boxing programme where on completion they will receive an accredited certificate. The project will be run by a qualified boxing tutor. The sessions are currently running at the H Pod on Thursday evenings from [...]