Yo! Summer enjoyed by thousands of young people
This year’s Yo! Wolves summer programme was the biggest so far – with thousands of children and young people taking part in a wide range of fun days, sporting activities and holiday clubs across the city.
Organised by the City of Wolverhampton Council and funded by the Department for Education (DfE), over 34,000 activity sessions were delivered to young people and children, up from 32,000 from the previous year.
Our Young Inspectors have also been out and about, keeping their watchful eyes on the activities for Yo! Summer. They visited The Art Gallery, Ultimate Warriors, WV10 Consortium and In Play Gaming to ensure that young people were having a blast throughout the holidays.
Other highlights included drone workshops with School of Coding, the Stages summer school at the Grand Theatre, martial arts with Wolverhampton Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a summer camp at The Way. One of the providers, Beatsabar Music, was recognised by Department of Education and featured in an online celebration event:
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 Youth Voice Group Residential Condover Hall 2023
Members of our Youth Voice Groups came together over a couple of days and enjoyed fun activities at Condover Hall this summer. They had the opportunity to team build, challenge themselves but also the chance to provide feedback into the new #YES strategy to help shape the city moving forward. Hope to see you there next year! Get involved!
 A celebration event to mark the opening of a brand new play area and splash pad, following more than £600,000 of investment by City of Wolverhampton Council was held recently at Eastpark.
The play area at East Park includes a toddler zone with cradle swings and a trampoline, a junior zone with climbing walls and multi play unit and a teenage area with pendulum swing and giant slides.
Other attractions include roundabouts, seesaws, wetpour tunnels, firefighters pole, rockers, springers and bucket and rope swings. Full story.
 Latest from our own Dragon's Den
A handful of new passionate providers have stepped into the Dragons Den to ask for some funding to put on even more great activities for young people as part of Yo! Wolves. After pleasing the Dragons (#YES Board) we are proud to say that they all have been awarded funding! Thank you #YES Board Members!
As part of a £1.4 million available grants package, organisations in and around Wolverhampton are invited to bid for grant aid to deliver Holiday Activities and Food schemes across the City until 2025.
As part of the grant application process, new activity providers meet with the panel of young Dragons, who are then part of the final decision making process in terms of what activities and events get to be delivered for Wolverhampton's children and young people.
Interested in getting involved? Apply here.
 Family Hubs network is officially launched
Wolverhampton's new network of Family Hubs is now officially launched.
Wolverhampton is one of 75 areas in England to have benefitted from a share of investment totalling £300 million from the Government’s Family Hubs and Start for Life programme to create eight new Family Hubs across the city.
The hubs are ‘one stop shops’, offering guidance and advice on a range of circumstances to support families through pregnancy and beyond, including infant feeding, mental health and wellbeing, health visiting support and parenting classes. More information.
  HY5! Our youth Forum to represent those with any Special Educational Needs and Disabilities are proud to announce that after months of preparation have now delivered their very own training to professionals that sit on our SEND Board!
The aim of the training is to raise awareness, remove barriers and inspire change.
Great Work HY5!
New Director of Children’s Services appointed
Alison Hinds has been appointed as City of Wolverhampton Council’s new Director of Children’s Services.
Alison has worked for the council for more than 35 years, having first joined as an Education Welfare Officer. Her appointment on a 12 month internal secondment follows a robust recruitment process that featured interviews with a technical panel, young people’s panel and special appointment’s panel. Congratulations Alison.
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