Werneth Cricket Club

Westway Boxing Club

Westway Boxing Club in Scarborough is a popular community gym offering boxing and fitness sessions for adults and young people. The project has kickstarted a wider transformation for the gym, which has recently been granted planning permission to build an extension to create a new community youth club for the local area.

The project

The team fully painted and decorated the interior of the gym in this amazing black and yellow colour scheme and boxed in pipework through carpentry, giving it a modern yet rustic feel. They also created a bike rack on the side of the building to help young people physically get to the club, and fitted specialist new flooring to the gym.

The impact:

• 21 NEET/at risk young people learning trade skills including carpentry and painting & decorating
• 16 entry-level City & Guilds accreditations gained in painting and decorating
• A modern and welcoming environment for visitors to enjoy their classes
• The new bike shelter will help attract more young people to the gym who will be able to store their bikes safely
• Lovell Homes kindly donated all PPE needed throughout the project – read more here

Julie Spivey, Change Direction Youth Mentor at North Yorkshire Youth for the Scarborough District told us: “Young people I work with, who are involved in or vulnerable to crime in the area, are crying out for more positive experiences like VIY. I saw significant changes in them on the project, and since too. Two in particular completely changed their behaviour and took ownership of their lives, knuckled down better at school and are now doing DIY at home for their parents/as carers.”

West Earlham Community Centre

West End Rugby Club

West Hyde Youth Centre

West Nottinghamshire College

Students at West Nottinghamshire College transformed a barren piece of land at their Derby Road campus while learning new skills for the future.

The foundation studies team were keen to turn an unused grassy space, which sits between the college’s restaurant area and the animal care unit, into a kitchen garden which would both nurture the students’ horticultural and environmental skills as well as grow produce for the restaurant’s kitchens and the animals in the neighbouring unit.

We created raised growing beds set with new vegetables, herbs and flowers, created a shed, composting bin and wider paved areas to enable students in wheelchairs to enjoy the same access to the garden as able-bodied students. This will enable them to put new skills into practice and to help broaden their knowledge on the food supply chain and environmental impact of food miles.

The project was supported by the Mansfield branch of our trade partner, Travis Perkins, who provided wooden sleepers, paving slabs and a large potting shed to help turn the bare grassy area into a new garden space over a period of just three weeks. This was overseen by Assistant Branch Manager Zoe Ruston, herself a former media production student at the college’s Derby Road campus.

More than 23 foundation studies students have spent practical lessons out in the garden throughout May, mentored and coached by our Trade Skills mentors, who have introduced them to a range of joinery, construction and painting skills, resulting in the group being awarded Entry Level 3 accreditations in carpentry and health and safety. 

Funded by the UK Community Renewal Fund.

West Nottinghamshire College II

Westside School

Westbury Sports Club

Westminster School

Westminster School, based in Rowley Regis, selected a VIY project day with funding from the Careers & Enterprise Company virtual wallet fund. VIY received funding to deliver over 400 employability activities to schools across the country including assembly visits, employability workshops and project days. Schools had the choice to run their project days on the school site or in the local community. Westminster School selected The Rowley Regis Hospital as the location for the VIY project which is part of a long-term partnership between the school and the hospital which will see students work on future projects at the hospital.

15 pupils from Westminster School, which caters for students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), spent a day renovating the garden at the hospital.  The garden has been designed for dementia patients to enjoy during their stay at the hospital. Over the duration of the project, the students built two planters for the garden and painted the existing furniture blue; which has been shown to aid dementia patients through its calming hues.

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