Help Yourselves! Award Scheme
FAR too many children live in severe poverty right on our doorstep.
WE'RE not going to put up with that.
YOU tell us what would change the lives of children and young people in your area.
Please note that round 2 is now CLOSED. Keep checking this site for further information regarding our next funding round.
How to get started...
Success stories
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Grange Kabaddi and Street Dance
Used a Help Yourselves Award from Save the Children and British Gas to organise an inter-school Kabaddi Tournament to bring different schools from other communities together and give them a chance to learn a new sport and make new friends.
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Modern Mums' Magazine
Following a successful ?1000 Award the Young Mums received a further ?3000 to produce a second edition of their magazine. This has been distrinuted to every youth club in the Caerphilly Borough
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The Help Yourselves Award ceremony
Phase two of the Help Yourselves Awards programme drew to a close in December 2007. All the groups awarded a Help Yourselves grant in phase two were considered against the eight categories of Award criteria. Nine groups were chosen from the 187 grants awarded. These nine groups were brought together on the 15th January 2008 to celebrate their success at Westminster.
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Thrifty Munch
They used a Help Yourselves Award to run 'Thrifty Munch', an eight-week healthy lifestyle course for young people on low incomes living on their own or seeking independent living. The young people have had a lot of fun getting together to learn how to plan, prepare and cook healthy and nutritious food within a budget.
Bored? Fed up? Got holidays with nothing to do? Get involved and help yourselves innit!
What it is right, we've all sat around complaining about stuff before but now you've got the chance to make a change...