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| A specially commissioned Alliance report has found that 45% of English young people volunteer at least once a month and 80% donate money to charity each month. The report says that young volunteers give on average 3.57 hours a month, which when projected across England is the equivalent of 33,000 full-time workers. Most of this voluntary work takes place through churches or religious organisations, and 10% of those who declared themselves “non-religious” still volunteer through a religious organisation. The report also found that the more active the young person is as a Christian, the more likely they are to volunteer. | |
| Young People | Idea- October 2009 |
| Children can now go swimming for free as part of a £150,000 scheme to tackle obesity and keep youngsters off the streets. Tens of thousands of children will benefit from a Government-funded project which got underway in September. The scheme, which follows the introduction of free swimming for the over 60s in April, is open to anybody under 16 and will run at each of Stoke-on-Trent’s pools for the next two years. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel- 2 September 2009 |
| Six out of ten teenagers believe religion ‘has a negative influence on the world’ and 55% say family, friends, money and entertainment are more important. This is according to a survey of 1,000 teenagers for Penguin Books published in June. Half of teenagers claim they have never prayed and 16% have never been to church. Three in ten believes in an after life, whilst one in ten believes in reincarnation. | |
| Young People | Evangelicals Now- July 2009 |
| More than a quarter of 11 to 16-year-olds in Britain can not recall any of the Ten Commandments. A poll commissioned by computer game makers Electronic Arts reveals that just 1 in 17 of the 1,000 youngsters surveyed could quote all Ten Commandments. | |
| Young People | The War Cry- June 2009 |
| The Bishop of Bradford fears the recession will lead to cuts in initiatives intended to help poor children. Bishop David James, in his maiden speech to the House of Lords, said that he welcomed the reduction in recent years of child poverty numbers and the heavy investment in school buildings. However, he highlighted a Joseph Rowntree Foundation report that said the recession will not greatly affect the number of poor children, but more will be in ‘severe poverty’. “If these levels of poverty become embedded in the fabric of our society, this will be extremely costly for the country in future because it will affect these children for the whole of their lives.” He said. | |
| Young People | Salvationist- May 2009 |
| Alcohol-related 999 calls for ambulances have increased by 11% in a year as paramedics report picking up children as young as ten who are drunk. Brian Hayes, a paramedic, told the Commons Health Committee that one in five 999 calls to London Ambulance Service between 10pm and 2am on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights involved drink. The number of such calls in London rose by 11% on the previous year to 61,000 in 2007-8. However, the committee heard the true figure might have been higher as the impact of alcohol was not recorded when it was co-incidental to the injury. | |
| Young People | Salvationist – May 2009 |
| Church leaders are being encouraged to help make 2009 ‘a year to remember’ for children and the Church with the launch of an interdenominational Year of the Child. This will coincide with the 30th anniversary of the United Nations’ International Year of the Child. A group of Children’s Advisers from across the Church of England‘s dioceses, alongside representatives from the Methodist Church and other denominations and agencies, identified widespread interest in making a distinctive contribution to this anniversary. In light of this enthusiasm, the network plans to promote 2009 as an opportunity for local churches to review the work they do with and for children, and to do more to recognise and celebrate their contribution in society. The Archbishop of York, Dr. John Sentamu, comments: “In the lead up to the Year of the Child 2009 it is my hope that individual churches and Christian denominations throughout the country will opt in and make available the resources needed to make it a success. | |
| Young People | Gazette– April 2009 |
| With its teenage sexual health strategy failing, the government is now to give school girls who are ‘considering becoming pregnant’ a qualification in parenthood. The move has met with the mixed reactions from pro-life organisations and family campaigners with responses varying from ‘’irresponsible’’ to ‘’invaluable.’’ | |
| Young People | The Universe- 26 April 2009 |
| Eight young people in Staffordshire have been elected to office in the UK Youth Parliament Elections. A record number of more than 13,100 votes were registered, electing four young people to become members of the youth parliament (MYPs), and Deputy Members of the Youth Parliament (DMYPs). | |
| Young People | The Sentinel – 18th February 2009 |
| Children’s lives are being impoverished by an education that is “fundamentally deficient”. A study argues their entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum has been eroded by a fixation on standards in the basics of literacy and numeracy. It says while there is a need for a national curriculum, in its current form it is seen as “overcrowded, unmanageable and in certain respects inappropriately conceived.” | |
| Young People | The Sentinel - 10th February 2009 |
| An “alarming” number of young people are depressed and one in ten think that their life is not worth living, according to a report by the Prince’s Trust. What is more, the charity believes that the situation is likely to worsen as the recession takes hold of the country. One in ten of the 16-to-25 year-olds polled for the study said that they felt life was meaningless, and more than a quarter (27%) said that they were “always” or “often” down or depressed. Almost half of those surveyed (47%) said they were regularly stressed. The Prince’s Trust… interviewed over 2,000 young people across Britain. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - March 2009 |
| Young people are spending increasing amounts of their lives in front of televisions, games consoles and computers, amounting to as much as six hours a day. A third of young people insist they cannot live without their computer and this on-line activity is creating a barrier between parents and their children, a study of 5-to-16 year-olds by research agency, Childwise found. …As a result of this, reading is becoming a far less popular pastime – 84% said they read for pleasure in 2006 compared to 74% in 2009. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - March 2009 |
| Young people taking part in an enquiry into youth disaffection have asked for first aid training to ensure they know how to cope if they come across someone who has been stabbed or shot. Young people taking part in an investigation by the Nuffield 14-19 Review and the youth charity Rathbone saw the risk of being a victim of crime as an ‘inherent part of their lives’. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – December |
| The Youth Citizenship Commision (YCC) is researching whether the voting age should be lowered to 16 to encourage young people to be more involved in the political process. A consultation paper has been sent to a wide range of organisations interested in youth and voting issues across the UK. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – January |
| The vertebra of an Ice Age rhinoceros has been unearthed at a water park by a five year old girl on a day out. Emelia Fawbert found the fossilised remains at the Cotswold Water Park near Cirencester, goucestershire, during an organised fossil hunt. Emelia and her father James, 33, from Bussage, near Stroud, dug up the vertebra of the wolly rhino which roamed the area about 50,000 years ago. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel - November 5th |
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