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TAG Youth Club for Disabled Young people provides young people with a safe and well equipped environment in which it delivers a programme of personal, social and educational opportunities to young people with disabilities

or additional needs.

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Autumn 2017

Newsletter

Registered Charity No. 1170534

Welcome to our spring newsletter

Welcome to our autumn newsletter. As you flick through the pages I’m sure

you’ll agree that we have had some great fun over the past few months.

It’s been an exciting term; we launched our TAG Radio Station during our

successful Awards Night during National Youth Work Week and set up some

new initiatives including a Recruits Crew, Mentoring Scheme and the London

Youth’s City Leaders programme.

We have been busy fundraising to provide our members with the opportunity

to explore new experiences and find exciting new resources for our young

people to enjoy and engage with. We are currently investing in some virtual

reality equipment and next term we will be launching a new project currently

called TAG News (working title) where we will be producing a user led

newsletter.

We are still welcoming new children and young people to our Junior Club and

have supported 14 children during the term. We are currently bringing in

some changes so both Clubs’ operations run parallel. Our Junior Club (10-15

years) operates on alternate Fridays between 17:30 & 19:00.

Our core Youth Club continues to be successful with our youth workers

supporting 77 young people during the term. Our Youth Club (15-25 years)

operates weekly between 19:30 & 21:30.

Lastly I am pleased to share the news that the Club has achieved the London

Youth Silver Quality Mark.

Please don’t forget to follow our social media streams to keep up to date with

everything that’s going on.

Giles Hobart Lead Youth Worker

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TAG Youth Club

Ham Youth Centre

Ham Close

Ham

Richmond

TW10 7PL

07557397934

www.tagyouthclub.org

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We enjoyed baking cookies and cupcakes, though

choosing which flavoured buttercream to pipe

proved the hardest element of the evening.

As well as our onsite baking we needed to search

for our best baker. Our passionate bakers

brought along their cake to compete for the title.

Rather than three challenges we asked for one

showstopper which incorporated the signature

bake and technical bake. How were we going to

judge this all important competition? By getting

everyone to judge; that was 40 young people,

staff and volunteers to inspect, prod and sample.

Great TAG

Bake Off

Wish You Had Been

There

As many of us returned from our hot and sunny

summer holidays we spent the evening

reminiscing about the fun and wild ventures that

we had while away.

We welcomed Dramatize who led an evening of

drama, movement and dance all within the theme

of going away on holiday. We learnt various

techniques during the evening which helped us

express ourselves to our friends.

The session finished with some activity and

colouring sheets.

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At The Movies Ready Steady Cook

We may not have had the lights and the big

cameras but we certainly had the action as we

enjoyed an evening of dressing up and re-

enacting scenes for some of the best movies

ever made.

Some young people arrived dressed as their

favourite movie character, all for the chance to

win our fancy dress competition.

Young people also took part in a mime workshop

led by Dramatize, following the At The Movies

theme. Young people were required to

improvise and work as part of a team.

We had a busy time during our Ready Steady

Cook activities; we made individual pitta bread

pizzas where young people could add their

preferred topping. We had sliced ham, tomatoes

and mushrooms, chopped pineapple and red,

yellow and green peppers. We learnt the

importance of washing our hands and to follow

important rules when handling edible items.

Some young people took part in our creative

activity called face plates where we decorated

plates which have a basic face image printed on

them using a wide selection of vegetables to

make the features for example hair, eyes, mouth.

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Open Aired

Cinema

It’s taken 3 years but we finally managed to have our Open Aired Cinema out in

the open. We turned the garden area into our very own cinema for the night as

we projected the film onto a large screen and used our portable speaker.

So the first movie was chosen but it wasn’t long until mutiny kicked in and

another vote was cast and with a change of movie we settled down for the

evening. Obviously the evening wouldn’t have been complete without some

freshly popped popcorn.

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Clowning Around

We learnt how to walk on stilts and had a go on the

peddle goes. We juggled using a range of balls and

clubs, we spun plates and had our faces painted.

Come Dancing

This year’s Come Dancing saw many interesting

performances including both individual and

group routines.

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Game Show Marathon

We had loads of fun playing Deal or No Deal and

Wheel of Fortune especially as the prizes were

paid out in chocolate coins!

Trick or

Treat

We had a full fight

night as we took part

in various themed

games. We tried to eat

doughnuts that were

hanging from chains in

our dungeon.

We hooked skulls from

our watery coffin and

collected apples from

the witches’ cauldron.

Young people enjoyed

dressing up and

having their faces

painted.

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The Apprentice

Explosive

November

We wrapped up warmly and headed outside for our

Explosive November activities. We toasted

marshmallows on the fire before having a tasty

barbeque and lit some sparklers to wave around.

In the warmth we made colourful lanterns which

were lit by battery operated tea lights. We also

made some rocket shaped stained glass windows.

This Year’s The Apprentice saw the boys vs the

girls in the battle to raise as much money as

possible by selling cakes. Young people baked

cakes at home and brought them along on the

night. Participants organised their own marketing

campaign.

The evening fell towards the end of National Youth

Work Week so, to celebrate, we held a glamorous

awards ceremony with special guests presenting

awards.

We also launched TAG Radio during the evening.

The TAG

Factor

Last Orders

Our pub themed night

proved to be as

successful as last year

with our annual quiz

followed by some

cheeky lemonade

shandy. We also

enjoyed playing darts,

pool and table football.

With our stage erected, flashing lights and music

playing it could only mean one thing; the return of

The TAG Factor. This year we were lucky to have

had the addition of our new touch screen karaoke

machine which the young people are more

confident in using than the staff! Categories

included the boys, the girls and the groups.

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Get Me Out

Of Here!

We had loads of jungle fun during our Get Me

Out Of Here trials. We had to find stars in boxes

filled with critters, grab stars from the lizard

filled coffin and find stars in between the snakes!

And let’s not forget the food challenges with

some nasty edible items like frogspawn, lizard

feet and snake tails!

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All The

Trimmings

Frosty Fun

We always like to try

new things and this

term was no exception

with the addition of

our Christmas meal.

We dressed up

warmly and met at the

restaurant for a roast

dinner with all the

trimmings. Young

people chose their

freshly carved meat

and then filled their

plates with vegetables

before covering them

in gravy!

Let it snow, let it snow,

let it snow and it

certainly did for our

frosty Fun activities.

Young people made

melting snowman

biscuits and made

some Christmas cards

and some themed art

and crafts.

We had a giant

snowball fight with

over 350 plush

snowballs while we

had foam snow

showering us from

overhead.

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We celebrated the festive season and our last session before the big day itself

with a Christmas party with lots of music, loads of food and the odd game here

and there. The usual favourites included pass the parcel, musical statues and

musical bumps which were played before we had a visit from Father

Christmas who gave out chocolate selection boxes to everyone who visited

him in his grotto!

To end the party we gathered together for a Christmas disco and wished

everyone a very happy Christmas.

Ho Ho Ho

Party Time

Oh Yes

It Is

It was panto time ‘oh no it wasn’t’, ‘oh yes it was’ as we embarked on a

journey to see Jack and the Beanstalk at the New Wimbledon Theatre. With

the lights flashing, the music thumping and the bright costumes - we had a

great time. We played pass the parcel during the interval. Who would have

thought pass the parcel could be so much fun while we passed the parcel

along the rows? Each layer had some chocolate treats and the star prizes

included selection boxes which went down a treat!

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Fundraising

TAG Radio

We have been so

excited about the

launch of our radio

station.

Young people have

been working really

hard to build their

confidence and

improve their

communication skills

by using the

equipment.

TAG Radio is now

broadcasting live at

Ham Youth Centre on

Friday nights.

Thank you to everyone who has volunteered or supported us during the past

few months. We have cruised along the River Thames, bag packed and

collected door to door with Father Christmas to name a few.

As well as fundraising for new equipment we have also been busy engaging

with our communities and have met lots of people along the way. Please

look out for our 2018 Fundraising & Community Engagement Calendar in the

coming weeks.

Well done to all of our

2017 Jack Petchey

Achievement Award

winners.

4 young people who

won achievement

awards and 1 youth

worker who won a

leader award

attended a glitzy

celebration event in

Crystal Palace.

Each winner was

presented with a

medallion on stage.

Celebration

Event

Weeks with a green border and writing are the weeks which our

Junior Club is open. For more information please visit

www.tagyouthclub.org or email us at info@tagyouthclub.org

12 January

Sweaty

Antics

19 January

Place Your

Bets

26 January

23 February

Crazy

Fashion

16 February

09 February

Pancake

Mayhem

02 February

Take Me

Out

16 March

Open Mic

Night

23 March

At The

Movies

09 March

Going

Potty

02 March

Chill Out

06 April

Powdering

Our Noses

13 April

20 April

Ye Ha

27 April

TAG

Has Talent

30 March

Easter

Madness

05 January

New Year

After Party

Don’t

Forget Your

Toothbrush

SPRING TERM

ACTIVITIES

Game Show

Marathon

Bowling

Tournament