Cranium Caviar April Newsletter

This summer Western Power Distribution and Avon and Somerset Police are giving away a Nintendo Wii and a Wii Fit, a Ł50 Amazon voucher and a Ł25 Amazon voucher!!! All you have to do to win is picture yourself with the Cranium Caviar brain and send us the photo.

Also there's the Hangstones Skate park Graffiti Competition. If you live in Yatton, Claverham or Cleeve you have the opportunity to enter this competition. Entries need to be no bigger than A3 and include 6 designs about sporting activities. Entries should be handed in to Yatton library before Monday 31st August.

The winner will see their winning designs sprayed onto 6 sides of the skate park during September. For further information contact PC Phil Kinsella on 07771 661563 or Niccy Lockhart on 07706 381744.

Where? Harry Crook Youth Activities Centre, Moorlands Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3LF.

On the day there will be fun fair rides, Elementz street dance act, stalls, emergency vehicles to look round, play bus, hot food, football penalty shoot out competition, raffle with some great prizes, face painting and the EJ200 road show trailer (the EJ200 is an engine in a Typhoon aircraft) and lots more!

Ever wanted to help run and have a real say in how your activities are run? If so, the Night Café at the Tea and Trade Tearooms, Church Street, Radstock may just be the thing for you. If you are aged between 14 – 18 and would like to get involved or just attend socially they are open from 6pm till 9pm every Thursday. PS... There's also subsidised food and drink!

There are over 30 rafts competing including police officers from Portishead Police Station, the Firebrigade and Co-Op. There is also an edible boat contest!! Join in on the fun and visit www.portisheadraftrace.co.uk for more information.

All are welcome, boys and girls aged 8 to 18. It's free to join and you could be spotted by Yeovil Town Football Club!

Pride In Priorswood - activities over the holidays ranging from clay model painting to Jewellery making and sports.

Where? All in door activities are at Priorswood Resource Centre and sports activities at Lynford Park.

The last Tuesday there us a celebratory BBQ for all those who have been involved! Admission is free but for organised activities inside there is a maximum of 30 people so get there early!! If you want to get involved you will have to complete a parental consent form, they will be available in The Resource Centre in Priors Wood in about a month.

Energize Activity Days - This is a free activity day with a wide range of activities including wall climbing, dance mats, games and music

6-a-side football tournament – the tournament is for any team to enter, just friends, a school team, a youth club, a community football or league team and has 4 age divisions:

It's Ł15 per team but be quick, the closing date is the 14th July! For more information and an application form please contact PCSO Sean Roper on 07825 125111.

SPECIALIST PROJECTS: Tuesday 6.30-8.30 - During this session you can work towards an Arts Award, taking part in activities such as dance and DJ workshops.

The Battle of the bands winners were The Fuel. They played on the BBC Introducing stage at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival!

In response to discussions with young people in the area a 'Street Dance' session was organised at Saltford Hall.

The event was attended by approx 20 local youths who thoroughly enjoyed the event. The local Co-Op in Saltford kindly donated food and drink so that the youngsters could be suitably refreshed following the session, so a big thank you to them.

The event was deemed a great success by all of those who attended, with PCSO's Sarah Hewlett and her colleague Bob Hambridge joining in with the dancing !!

Peasedown St John youth club were recently awarded an Ł800 grant from "Crimebeat" to help start a vegetable garden on a piece of land at the rear of the youth club.

The money will be used to help pay for raised beds buy gardening tools, seeds and a greenhouse.

Youngsters living in Odd Down spent a day of their Easter holidays collecting large amounts of rubbish from across Sulis Meadows and Cranmore estates in an initiative which sees youngsters take part in community work and gain points that can be used towards day trips and other activities.

The day involved youngsters and some parents having a clean-up on their estates, followed by an afternoon of football coaching from Bath City Coaches at Odd Down Football Club.

The Odd Down team hope to organise further community initiatives for youngsters during the Summer holidays who will then take part in funded activities during the afternoon. If you are aged between 8-16, live in Odd Down and have some suggestions on ways to improve the area, please contact PCSO's Louise Gould or Kim Tanner at Bath Police Station (0845 456 7000).

Pictured from left to right is Wendy Cornish, Housing Officer, Knightstone, Alcombe Beat Manager PC Steve Cutler, resident from Little Plover Close, Heather Brown and Dreamscheme children Steven Owen and Michael Murphy.

On Thursday 28th May 2009 during half term school holidays, Dreamscheme children presented residents on the Seaward Way estate with painted ceramic tiles with house numbers and artwork on.

PCSO'S Rachel Cutler and Luisa Skinner have been working with the children on this project to design and paint the tiles which made a colourful addition to many of the houses. The majority of residents were delighted with the gift and allowed them to be affixed to the property.

This project was supported by Knightstone Housing and as a reward for an afternoons hard work, the young people were treated to an ice cream supplied from Styles Farm at Rodhuish.

Dreamscheme is a community youth development project based on a simple concept of Work, Points and Trips.

As part on the Avon and Somerset Constabulary' s Environmental Action Day Laura Johns from the Linx Project and six Year 9 students from King Arthur's School, Wincanton, carried out a 'Big Tidy Up' Litter Pick around Wincanton Recreation area and the Skate Park.

Apart from the bad weather, the day was very successful. The group cleared up six bin bag full's of litter from the area. The pupils were very enthusiastic and worked as a team to complete the job. They all set a very good example for other young people in the town with their positive attitudes and mature behaviour.

Students: Hayley Parker, Daniel Guyait, Kristian Williams, Matthew Hopkins, Matthew Hunt, Fergus Holmes.

Also on the morning of Thursday 14th May PC Sara Stephenson and PCSO 7467 RUSSELL enlisted the help of twenty year 10 students from Sexey's School, Bruton. They did a two hour litter pick in Berkeley Gardens, Riverside Walk, Lower Backway, Patwell Street, Plox, Jubilee Park and Lovers Walk. The students were all dressed in bright green tabards and carried green litter bags with them. Fun was had by all and several bags of rubbish were collected leaving the areas looking much tidier.

In September 2008 PCSO's at Bath police station successfully set up a 5-a-side football competition which gives approximately 60 young people something to do on a Thursday evening. So far the group have played 52 matches and scored 320 goals. Well done guy's, keep the goals coming!

Kristian Parrot

Kristian Parrot with his winners certificate. Kristian's design will be used by the Youth Team and Community Engagement team on their letters and leaflets.

In June a competition was held for pupils in year eight of the City Academy in Bristol. They had to come up with a logo that symbolises police work in the local community.

Over 50 entries were received and the winning design, from Kristian Parrot, was chosen by Sergeant Stephen Davey and art teacher Jenny Betts.

Kristian wins a voucher for JJB sports. The runners up were Louie Dean, Bozanne Bozie and Rebecca Allison. Congratulations to them all.