Project81 - October 2010

The October school holiday week saw the success of Project81 at Centre81 in Whitecrook.  Project81 was a week long programme for young people aged 11 to 18 years, jointly organised by Centre81 and CAOS (Community Arts; Open Space).  Streetlinks and the Tullochan Trust also helped to deliver the programme.

Over the course of the week, more than 55 local young people took part in various sports including mobile climbing wall activities, provided by Terminal One Youth Centre and bmx and skateboarding, provided by  Unit 23 Skatepark .  Some of the young people designed and painted a mural for the Community Allotments planned at Centre81.  There were also DJ lessons and urban arts workshops, streetdance, breakdance and Capoeira (Brazilian Martial arts) classes.

Ali Mailey, Centre Co-ordinator said, “We are all delighted that Project81 was such a great success.  The young people who attended all had a fabulous time.  We were so pleased to have secured funding from BBC Children in Need to organise such an exciting programme of activities that really benefited the local young people.  It’s fantastic to work in partnership with agencies such as CAOS, Streetlinks and the Tullochan Trust.  Working together we can really make a difference to the lives of local young people”.

The Pulse - 2008-2010

Centre 81 Drop-in

The aim of the Pulse was to provide free diversionary activities for young people in Whitecrook and the surrounding area aged 12 – 18 years as part of the Public Reassurance initiative to reduce youth disorder.  The centre was open on a Friday night from 6-9pm with free activities for young people such as football, table, tennis, snooker and badminton.   Unfortunately, the project withdrew from the Centre in 2010 due to lack of funding, however, we are currently endeavouring to re-establish a similar but better service soon and are awaiting the outcome of recent funding applications.  We should receive news by the end of July.    

Regain - Summer 2009

SPARC, the delivery partner for the project worked collaboratively with a range of youth, social and arts organisations to deliver activities including urban digital music, urban dance, street theatre and urban graffiti art. The young people of Whitecrook attended sessions throughout the summer holidays.  A graffiti team painted half of the MUGA internal wall and the piece has remained intact with no instances of vandalism and a digital music team created a CD of original tracks which were played during the summer festival Community Day on the 15th of August.

Re-Cycle - Summer 2009

This was a successful eight week Build Your Own Bike course, where over the course of the summer holidays, young people, with help and adivce from Streetlinks built their own bikes from scrap pieces of old bicycles.