All the projects on one page!!!!!!

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Involve volunteer bureau

A one stop shop for all 25+ in the Mendip area

stewarding program

We offer different training courses for both individuals and organisations, ranging from commitee and trustee training to stewarding courses.

reAction

This is a project running in Yeovil for young people at risk of are currently not in
Education, Training or Employment. The project supports these young people to
improve their life chances, through Training, computer access, and support and
guidance.

The Busking Project

This project seeks out talented young people and gives them the
opportunities perform to the public and raise money for local charities.
The Busking Project takes place on most Saturdays from our shop in
Yeovil

Action Sparks Shop

This is our shop in Yeovil. The project is all about community action its a space
for local organisations to us for free and advertise themselves. Its a space
where members of the community can seek guidance and signpostin

pint glass

Bronze health and safety award

Glastonbury Training centre

Elected members support

peer to peer mentoring

Befriending program

Intergenarational volunteering

A project aimed at breaking downn barriers between the generations, getting volunteers over 50 to share there wisdom with youth volunteers.

Youth action teams

Local teams of young volunteers that shape and steer and help to staff all the work we support in their communities. Each
team also has a specialism which they help manage e.g. Mendip team also manages our media projects. All the teams then feed into the charity’s board of trustees and a large number will progress to becoming the next generation of our board of trustees (are current board are nearly all in their 20’s

vUPoint

Teams of youth reporters, producing positive images,
stories and films about youth volunteering, breaking
down stereo types and promoting a positive image of
young people in their local communit

Taster days

Taster days We hold “have a go” events for young people that just want to try
out volunteering. Each event is based within the local community
and designed to both meet a local need and be fun. Around 15
young people come to each event and are then encouraged to help
design and run the next one

street legal

summer "Gap" week

CRB and child protection support

Community print

Goats, Dogs & the RSPCA

Learning Champions

To get interesting and motivated everyday people 19+, to encourage small groups of their friends to take part in a small, medium or large learning experience that benefits them as a community

vlive

A project that supports youth bands to design, manage and put on
public music events throughout the year. Each event either raises
money for a specific charity (chosen by the young people) or raises the
profile of an issue that affects young people. The last two events
were for the Terrance Higgins Trust and a local anti-bullying
campaign. Each had 80+ young volunteers running and
performing at the events with audiences of around 700 at each

Revolution

Festival This is a volunteering festival we have been running in partnership with National
Trust over the last 3 years. The festival brings volunteers from all over the
Southwest to come and get involved in conservation tasks. Everyone also have
great fun listens to music and eats great food

The Residential

As a thank you to new and older volunteers we run a summer
residential which is a bit of fun, and a chance for the volunteers
to let off steam. We play games and have laugh’s

C-card

Glastonbury I.T centre

Big Somerset

Young Trustees

Who we are;
Somerset Youth Volunteering Network (based in Glastonbury , Somerset) is an independent charity that was set up in 1999 by a group of young people that wanted to get their peers more actively involved in their communities, but as productive equal members of the community. SYVN does this through supporting volunteering, active citizenship and community action. Supporting mainly young people aged 12 to 25, the charity has gone from
strength to strength. Initially working with around 200 young volunteers a year it now supports over 1500 each year and the number is growing.
Initially the charity worked in only one district of Somerset, but has grown to cover the entire county and some of the South West. We are one of the founding members of the national Youth Action Network and currently sit on the board of trustees for the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation.
In addition to this projects we currently run are

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