SADLY, due to Level 2 conditions of no more than 100 people at a social event (we were expecting a crowd) we are POSTPONING our Itty Bitty Beats Live At Beach Tots Playgroup concert this Thursday, at least for a couple of weeks until we return to Level 1. Keep an eye on the Youth Alive Trust and Itty Bitty Beats social media pages for the new concert date. You’ve now got a bit more time to learn the songs on Spotify or YouTube. All other clubs will continue as normal as they do not break Level 2 restrictions. If you are feeling ill, please stay away. We will be using the same safety measures we used last time during Level 2. If you have any pastoral care needs, please get in touch at: care@yat.org.nz

https://www.ittybittybeats.com/music

Volunteer Expo at UC 2020 ✌?
If you’re around today come say hi, in the undercroft from 11-2:30pm #yat #volunteers #uc

Very sobering and insightful workshops today at Grace Vineyard Beach Campus on Suicide Prevention in partnership with @Mental Health Education Resource Centre (MHERC)

1737 – Need to Talk?

Amazing day hosting over 70 people from 40 local community groups for a mid year connection meeting and lunch at Grace Vineyard Beach Campus today! Big thanks to the awesome kitchen team who cooked up a storm and the Renew Brighton team for pulling it all together and helping stimulate conversation around a joint vision for New Brighton. #WeLoveNewBrighton

with Compassion Trust, New Brighton Community Gardens, North Beach Residents’ Association, The Bridge South Brighton, Waitai/Coastal – Burwood Community Board, New Brighton Project, @New Brighton MSD, New Brighton Library, Te Waka Aroha St Faith’s, Poto Williams, @New Brighton Health Care, Coastal Councillor James Daniels, Burwood Councillor Phil Mauger, New Brighton Residents Association, New Brighton Online, @South Brighton Voices, New Brighton Sustainable Coastal Village Project, He Puna Taimoana, Life in Vacant Spaces, @New Brighton Men’s Shed, North Beach Tennis Club, Sustain South Brighton, New Brighton Stitch-O-Mat, @South Brighton Resident Association, Annabel’s Educare Ltd, @New Brighton Mosaics, Lincoln Platt for Christchurch East, @Artisan’s Shed, New Brighton Lions Club, New Brighton Rsa/working Men’s Club, Community Fridge and Pantry New Brighton, @Department of Internal Affairs, New Brighton Union Church, East Christchurch Plunket

We had an awesome holidays, with 4 different holiday programmes and a Babysitting Training Course. Check out the best of our photo’s on our facebook albums by clicking on the photo below:

Dear Parent/Caregiver,

We hope the school holidays have started well for you. We only have a few holiday programme spots available on our junior programme on Friday, otherwise everything else, including Breakaway and Teen Babysitting is FULL. Here’s a few updates:

1. CLUBS: Term 3

Bookings for next term are now LIVE and Term Plans are online too (click on the hyperlinks below). Why not try something new for a term or forward to a friend as spaces are available for all clubs. Register for this term (or the whole of 2020) at: https://yatclubs.aimyplus.com

Start dates for Term 3:

– Kitchen Klub (School Years 5 – 8) – Monday 20th July

– Beach Tots Playgroups (Pre-Schoolers) – Tuesday 21^st  & Thursday 23^rd July

– Craft Club (School Years 5 – 8) – Thursday 23rd July

– Rock Solid (School Years 7 & 8) – Friday 24th July

– Surge (School Years 9 – 13) – Friday 24th July

– Basketball Club (School Years 3 – 6) – Monday 27th July

– Kōtirotiro Girls Club (School Years 1 – 6) – Wednesday 29th July

– Tamatāne Boys Club (School Years 1 – 6) – Thursday 30th July

2. NEW Vans

We’re stoked to announce that YAT has now replaced its two older vans after 2 years of fundraising!  The old Transit and 20 year old Hiace have both been replaced with 12 seater Toyota Hiace Minivans (2016 & 2014) thanks to various funders such as Rotary and 20 individual donors who gave anything from $40 to $5,000 as well as the Crichton Cobbers legacy fund and their trade-in value. We now begin our fundraising drive to build garaging to protect these 3 vans from the sea elements.

3. After School Oscar (School Years 5 – 9)

We have some awesome activities planned for the winter term coming up, including CIRCUS SKILLS WORKSHOPS every TUESDAY! This has been funded by CreativeNZ and we have a maximum of 20 places for the 10 week term, so there is no extra cost if you’re enrolled on our Tuesday Oscar.  The workshops run from 3:30-5:00pm at the Roy Stokes Hall, over the road from our offices, by the Christchurch Circus School and will be learning Aerial Arts: trapeze, silks and lyra, Balancing /equilibristic arts: globes, rola-bola stilts and tightwire and learn acrobatics and juggling arts. The rest of the week timetable:

Mondays: Kitchen Klub

Tuesdays: Circus Skills

Wednesdays: Kōtirotiro Girls Club or Boys Activities

Thursdays: Tamatāne Boys Club or Craft Club

Fridays: Rock Solid

We now do pick up’s from 5 local schools; Rawhiti, SNBS, NBC, Nova and Chisnallwood, in our 3 modern Hiace 12 seater minivans and many are also eligible for the government subsidy (eg: if you have 2 children, you have to be earning more than $1,600 a week to not get anything).  Register now: https://yat.aimyplus.com/ or email Shelly with any questions: rego@yat.org.nz

4. Upcoming Events

We’re about to release information of two workshops we’re running in partnership with MHERC on Suicide Prevention, on Tuesday 28^th July.  We’re also planning a massive Intermediates EPIC Dance Party on Friday 18^th September and can confirm our holiday programmes will again be in Week 1 of the October School Holidays, 28^th Sept – 2^nd October.

5. Other News

Other recent news includes purchasing a community AED, advice and tips on how to protect your kids online, how to drink a blended Happy Meal, and how to pull off some amazing Trick Shots at YAT.

Keep updated with other news by following our Facebook Page, Instagram, You Tube, or Website

Ngā mihi

The YAT Team

www.facebook.com/youthalivetrustnz

www.yat.org.nz

Needing childcare in the School Holidays?? Spaces are still available everyday for Week 1 of the School Holidays for our Holiday Programmes for Years 1 – 4, doing activities like Stone Carving, Inflatable World and the Cinema. The Years 5 – 9 programme is FULL on Monday and Friday, but spaces are still available the other 3 days including a Roller Skating day. Click on the link below for more details. Our Breakaway programmes for Intermediates and Teens in Week 2 is now FULL with 80 regos. The Teen Babysitting Training is also FULL.

http://www.youthalivetrust.org.nz/holiday-programmes/holiday-programme-years-1-9/

Youth Alive Trust and Grace Vineyard Beach Campus have just invested in a Community Defibrillator, that can now be accessed from outside the building entrance. There are other AED’s in our community inside various venues, but if you need one outside of working hours, this one can be accessed 24-7, 7 days a week, at 111 Seaview Road, New Brighton. It’s very easy to use, you don’t even have to press any buttons, it makes all the decisions for you. It is covered by a security camera, an alarm goes off if it’s opened, has an inbuilt GPS and is currently being uploaded to the AED locator systems. We pray nobody needs to use it, but it’s there just in case. Feel free to share this information with your networks and community. Kia Kaha

**FULL**

The July Babysitting Course is Full. Email: parenting@yat.org.nz to be put on the wait list or to be updated on the next course.

Just confirmed – the next course will be Wednesday 8th July 2020!

Suitable for any teenager wanting to learn the basic of babysitting, good guidelines and basic first aid by a trained Plunket facilitator.   Costs just $30 per person for a 9:00am – 3:00pm course hosted in New Brighton.  Limited places! Sign up now via the link below. If you have any questions email: parenting@yat.org.nz

Register HERE

Here is the Facebook Event to remind you and share with friends:

https://www.facebook.com/events/884700225354353/