Garnock Valley Youth Synergy

Project code: 893

Amount applied for

£1,000

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Project Summary

Garnock Valley Youth Synergy is a group of young people who formed to help bring teen spirit to the Garnock Valley since Oct 2024. Supported by the GV locality team we have participated in projects such as our kindness boxes at Christmas and Climate change awareness over the summer. We are also working towards our John Muir and Dynamic Youth Awards and feel that the group has helped us develop more confidence and has impacted our hopes for the future which we see as positive.

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Project Description

We would like to apply for this funding so that we can particpate in a Community Art Mural Project in partnership with Bridgend Community Centre. We as a group are focused on creating a better environment for young people in the Garnock Valley and trying to make a positive impact on the enviornment. We would like to promote positive climate change actions and a sense of pride in the Garnock Valley. We will achieve this by working with an established artist to create a climate awareness mural and invite other young people from other youth groups to join us. We think this project will give us a feeling of accomplishment, develop our creative, team work and communication skills. We also feel it will spread positivity and help the wellbeing of the young people involved. 

We have spoken to an artist and have came up with the following plan. 

Workshop Days 

3 sessions @ 4 hours per session = 12 hours 

- covers travel, time to source and collect materials, set up, session time, tidy up

Planning, Prep & Design time

Approx 8 hours

- covers time to plan the workshops and to develop the mural design

Touch ups

 Approx 1 day / 8 hours 

- covers time to finalise the mural to give it a good finish

= £800

Materials

Approx £200 using spray paint and masonry paint 

 

Total= £1000

 

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How have young people been involved in shaping this project?

The young people of Youth Synergy identified that they wanted to do something bigger to promote climate action awareness after they displayed their posters in the town planters. Seeing the Mural being designed at number 2 main street gave them the idea to do a mural and they asked Bridgend Community Centre if they could use the wall at the back of the centre as it had been used for a mural in the past. The centre agreed and the young people with support from youth workers decided to apply for PB funding. The words used in the above summary and description were devised during a youth synergy meeting where the young people agreed on what they wanted to say.

Location: Garnock Valley

Proposed on behalf of: Garnock Valley Youth Synergy and Bridgend Community Centre