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Day 2 - Frozen

Day 2 has been and what a day it was! Over the week each day is based upon a different animated film; day 1 was Finding Nemo, today was Frozen! If you have not heard of Frozen, you have probably heard the main song - Let it go [https://www.

Young People

They've arrived!

It's officially day one at Westbrook Reloaded, the young people have arrived, the place is buzzing and already people have being covered in shaving foam! This is what camp is all about! During this week we will be looking at the book of Jonah [https://www.biblegateway.com/

Young People

Preparing for summer camp

It's that time of year that summer camp happens. It's the final event of the school year in the Phase calendar, yet the biggest! The van is fully loaded with what feels like everything in the office and has made the journey across to the Isle

logo

A fresh new look, same great team!

Phase has a new logo! It has been an exciting journey towards gaining the 'squiggle' as it has been dubbed! There were many reasons that as an organisation we felt it was the right time for a fresh new look, the main one being that as our work

Souter Trust

We are very pleased to announce that the Souter Trust [http://www.soutercharitabletrust.org.uk] recently gave Phase a grant of £5000 in relation to our self-harm support work. With this money added to the other fundraising efforts, we are now over 50% towards our £15,000 total needed for

transition

It's Your Move

As the school year draws to a close we have been delivering workshops to year 6 students helping them prepare for their big move up to secondary school. This is the last of four workshops that we deliver to year 6 students. Following one of the workshops we asked one

Faith

Jurassic World

One of our trustees, Matt Adcock [https://twitter.com/Cleric20], is an avid film reviewer. Read Matt's recent review of Jurassic World for CVM here [http://www.cvm.org.uk/blog/reviews/jurassic-world-12a/] It is great to see how every film can make you think!

Young People Featured

Let's Talk Video

[https://youtu.be/-ngrSSyMv-E] Our let's talk video [https://youtu.be/-ngrSSyMv-E] has been receiving fantastic feedback and has also been shared by over 100K people! Norman Lamb [http://www.twitter.com/normanlamb], Lib Dem MP was very impressed with it and even shared the link on twitter:

Featured

Child Sexting

The issue of sexting is something that none of us want to think about, however, as this BBC News [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33126718] article shows, it is a growing issue amongst young people. As part of the work Phase delivers, internet and social media safety is a

Let's Talk videoAs Phase begins it's journey on supporting young people struggling with issues such as self-harm, we are keen to give every...

Let’s Talk video As Phase begins it’s journey on supporting young people struggling with issues such as self-harm, we are keen to give every young person the tools to be able to deal with the stresses and strains that todays world throws at them. This first video is

For the third year running we have arranged for the whole of year 7 from Hitchin Boys' School to visit three local churches; Christchurch,...

For the third year running we have arranged for the whole of year 7 from Hitchin Boys’ School to visit three local churches; Christchurch, Hitchin Christian Centre and St Mary’s. They have been learning about places of worship in their RE lessons and so to come and visit the

Time TrekOn the Tuesday of half term we time travelled for the last time this academic year to finish off the story of Joseph that we have...

Time Trek On the Tuesday of half term we time travelled for the last time this academic year to finish off the story of Joseph that we have been looking at through the year. This time we were joined by nearly 50 children aged from reception all the way through

Welcome to Amanda and Donna. Kieran took sometime to find out a little more about them...... Tell us a little about yourself? AM: I a...

Welcome to Amanda and Donna. Kieran took sometime to find out a little more about them…… Tell us a little about yourself? AM: I a married to Chris, who is a keen cricketer, and we have 2 children Claire 18 and Matt 16, I attend Walsworth Road Baptist Church, where

Lauren was one of our young leaders at Holding Nothing Back at Hitchin Girls' School, she is now at university studying to be a midwife. ...

Lauren was one of our young leaders at Holding Nothing Back at Hitchin Girls’ School, she is now at university studying to be a midwife. Lauren popped back recently to visit the lunch group and so we took sometime to find out what difference Holding Nothing Back and Phase has

Easter CrackedOver the last couple of weeks we have been delivering our Easter Cracked workshop to over 300 year 6 students in 8 different...

Easter Cracked Over the last couple of weeks we have been delivering our Easter Cracked workshop to over 300 year 6 students in 8 different junior schools. One of the real strengths of the workshops are all the volunteers that come and help from many different churches across Hitchin. We

Time TrekIn February of half term we had the latest instalment of our one day holiday club called Time Trek. We were looking at the story...

Time Trek In February of half term we had the latest instalment of our one day holiday club called Time Trek. We were looking at the story of Joseph and after leaving him in a well at the end of our event in October everyone was desperate to hear what

Following on from the workshops we did about being resourceful with year 7 in Hitchin Boys’ School earlier in the year, this term we...

Following on from the workshops we did about being resourceful with year 7 in Hitchin Boys’ School earlier in the year, this term we were looking at being resilient. We started the workshop with a challenge; the students were given a page of puzzles, sudoku, word searches etc. They were

Over the past few months we have been developing upon and increasing our knowledge of self-harm, which has sadly impacted the lives of many...

Over the past few months we have been developing upon and increasing our knowledge of self-harm, which has sadly impacted the lives of many young people and their families in our town. We continue to deliver our self-harm support groups in the schools, providing a safe space for young people

Primary Schools Workers GatheringWe have a guest article written by Mary Deller who helps us with our workshops with year 6...

Primary Schools Workers Gathering We have a guest article written by Mary Deller who helps us with our workshops with year 6 students… A ‘first’gathering of primary schools’ workers in the county took place on Wednesday 14th January, at Harpenden. The sharing and networking event was organised by Paul

Last term The Priory School chose Phase as their local charity of the year. Over charity week, the whole school - students and staff - got...

Last term The Priory School chose Phase as their local charity of the year. Over charity week, the whole school - students and staff - got involved in a whole variety of ways to raise funds for Phase. There were cake sales, penalty shootouts, sponsored silences and even a panto!

Resourceful Workshops Year 7's at Hitchin Boys School are currently completing a year-long program to help them adapt to secondary school...

Resourceful Workshops Year 7’s at Hitchin Boys School are currently completing a year-long program to help them adapt to secondary school life. The program considers four R’s: Resourceful, Resilience, Reflective and Reciprocity. We are delivering workshops each half term helping expand on what these R’s mean and

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Christmas Unwrapped We have already delivered our first few Christmas Unwrapped workshops to year 6 students and have some more to come. In...

Christmas Unwrapped We have already delivered our first few Christmas Unwrapped workshops to year 6 students and have some more to come. In total we are delivering 11 workshops in 9 different junior schools seeing over 300 students! We look at the Christmas story from a few different angles using

Self-Esteem

During this term we have been delivering our award winning RISE course to over 350 students. During the 4 sessions we help and encourage...

During this term we have been delivering our award winning RISE course to over 350 students. During the 4 sessions we help and encourage the students to think about who they are, how they feel about themselves, who they want to be and what difference they can make in their

Over the last few weeks we have been doing lessons with year 10 at Hitchin Boys’ School looking at what Christians think about...

Over the lastfew weeks we have been doing lessons with year 10 at Hitchin Boys’ School looking at what Christians think about poverty. It’s a great opportunity to explore the bible with these students and look at some of the key things Jesus did and taught about, to try