Kidz Making Good

Great to be doing

"To see the enthusiasm of Scouts and Eskdale School students for hands on work was a joy."

Sharing is core to Making Good

Scouts sharing some lunch after working together with a Mentor

This is the Caedmon Bible

Where we live, our history as a community, our values are part of who we are

On line research

The workshops will be mobile phone free zones for social media. Computers will be an important part of some activities. Opportunity to learn.

Wrapping hands around experience

We hope every young person will grasp opportunities in their own way.

Personal and Social Assets That Promote Youth Well-Being

[https://www.nap.edu] The indicators of current well-being include good mental health, good school performance, good peer relations, good problem-solving skills, and very low levels (or the absence) of involvement in a variety of problem behaviours, such as gang membership, drug and alcohol use, school failure, school dropout, delinquency, and early pregnancy.

Families and Schools are in the forefront, but Kidz Making Good can also facilitate we believe.

Overarching Social Action

One of the requirements of the #iwill funding programme is that there is a strong social action thread to what is done. In our KMG project each workshop will, we intend, have a social action purpose, angle or content. There should be 20+workshops during the year each with such a dimension.

However, it was thought a good idea for these social action “jigsaw” pieces to fit an overarching theme.

Aiming high with our Whitby community as the target.

Building skills and out-of-school networks, raising the sights to become young citizens who contribute to communities and causes.

Flower Crowns Workshop

The last of the summer holiday workshops. A great morning with Michelle using the Sleights Scout Hut. There were 11 girls working quite solidly on what is a fiddly but very creative task. Thanks to two mums who stayed on and helped the youngsters (and did a crown themselves). When…

Cranky Bike Safety and Repair Workshop

Well, it was the infamous Dr. Crank who led it in great style. He’s a very entertaining teacher of bikes and also the Ghost Walk man (as you can see). However, nothing scary about him today. Two “real” punctures were repaired in two of the bikes brought by youngsters and…

Sleights Youth Shed

We are pleased to say that the weekly Youth Shed in Sleights is on the way to being delivered! It will be on a Friday evening at Sleights Scout Hut in Narrowfields, opening in later September. This will complement the Scouting activities for Cubs and Beavers held there and, of…

Sew and Sew

Shirley Sutherland led a great morning workshop today making fish, cats and hearts. A wide range of skills to learn from using pinking shears, pins and needles, machine sewing, stuffing with soft filling, hand sewing and for some, washing up! We appreciate those who came to help Shirley and to…

Sea Glass Workshop, first in the summer break

Amy Kelly led a workshop much enjoyed by all. It’s nice to play with stones on the beach but that can continue in a workshop. The girls made bracelets or necklaces by threading sea glass onto twine. Before being able to do that the pieces need to be drilled! That…

Here is the Forecast – A Flurry

Not snow, thankfully, but it seems to be a useful collective term for our summer KMG workshops! There are Workshops that may appeal to girls, boys or indeed both. All are creative in one way or another and there is usually a social action purpose of one sort or another….

Development Space Wanted

The space we are looking for is not for Kidz Making Good to use, but somewhere that a two or three day workshop by age 12+ young people can do a makeover on that includes storage cupboards/ A kitchen, bathroom or ideally a storage space. Here is a link to…

Workshop News

Unfortunately the weather has taken its toll on the Archery Workshop and it has had to be CANCELLED. Rain and winds probably affected Robin Hood too! The Whitby Company of Archers are hopeful that there can be a new session in early autumn. Our thanks to them for their willingness…

A Winning Streak

Kidz Making Good were Award winners of the Best New Project from January 2018 in the Scarborough & Ryedale Community and Volunteer Awards 2019 by YMCA/NYCC. The awards evening was 5th June. Thanks to ALL those involved in helping to run, plan and promote the workshops and to the youngsters…

On Target for Two New Workshops

In fact there are more but for now we focus on one happening on Thursday evening, 13th June at Eskdale School site at 6.15pm and one in the summer. It is a workshop on archery by Whitby Company of Archers. They are a club that has quite a community focus…