Summer Playscheme 2023

We’re pleased to say that registration is now OPEN for our summer playscheme!

Join us for 5 Weeks of Summer Fun for 5 – 11 year olds, starts Mon 24th July 2023

From 12pm – 3pm, £2.00 per day

 

Step One: Please register your child HERE or via Instagram (@theshewsy) or in Club.

Step Two: Weekly booking will be available via Instagram (follow @theshewsy) or in Club.

 

Weekly booking form also available HERE

 

Please note:

  • There is a daily charge of £2.00. Places are limited and so please book as early as possible.
  • Please complete a separate Registration Form and a separate Booking Form for each of your children

Job opportunities

We are looking to appoint two or three colleagues to join our outstanding team of Youth Workers and Play Workers here at the Shewsy.

1. Play Worker
  • 12 hours per week: Monday – Thursday 2:30pm – 5:30pm
  • Working in Junior Club as part of the team overseeing the after school activities for up to 60 children aged 5 – 11 years
  • Rate of pay in the region of £11.78 per hour depending upon qualifications and experience
2. Youth Worker
  • 12 hours per week:  Monday – Thursday 7pm – 10pm
  • Rate of pay in the region of £11.78 per hour depending upon qualifications and experience
  • Working in Senior Club as part of the team working closely with young people aged 12 – 17 years

It is possible that, for suitably qualified and experienced persons, the roles can be combined.

Key documents:

Closing date for applications:  Monday 5th June 2023 at 5pm.

Interviews and in-Club trial sessions for shortlisted candidates will be scheduled for the week beginning Tuesday 12th June 2023.

A big Thank You

The 2022 Big Give Christmas Challenge ended on Tuesday 6th December and we have raised an amazing £89,900.23 from our online campaign in just one week.

This total includes the match funding from our Shrewsbury House Pledgers and the Four Acre Trust, along with any gift aid that can be claimed from HMRC on your donations.

Thank you to all who contributed. Our campaign this year was simply entitled  Shrewsbury House, and these funds are going to enable us to provide a safe environment for learning through play and respond to the wellbeing needs of our children and young people impacted by financial hardship.

Your generosity is overwhelming.

THANK YOU everyone for continuing to support our work at The Shewsy

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to our funders

Everyone at the Shewsy would like to say a big Thank You to our funders who have helped us provide vital services over the last year and into 2022:

October 2021

  • Kenny O’Connell applied for a grant from The Rushworths Trust for equipment for the Joseph Lappin Music Suite. He was successful in obtaining a grant of £600 towards new equipment for the recording studio and repairs to existing instruments. The new recording studio is looking good and Kenny is currently working on a Shewsy Christmas song to be released soon.

 

  • Shrewsbury House is delivering an Out of School Holiday programme this sOctober half term. Grant funding from OPAL (October Play and Activity Liverpool) via MPAC will contribute towards daily hot meals to replace those missed free school dinners, staffing costs and play/arts equipment.  The clubs will also deliver activities over Mischief night, Halloween and Bonfire Night.

September 2021

  • Shrewsbury House has been successful in obtaining grant funding from P H Holt Foundation. The grant of £11,000 from the ‘P H Holt Resilience Fund’ will contribute towards the staff wages budget for 2021-22. This grant will make a significant difference to the number of children we can work with in afterschool club, senior club and during the out of school holiday schemes.

 

June 2021

  • The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust provided Shrewsbury House with a grant for core operational costs from their ‘Youth Centre Recovery Fund’. The grant was equivalent to six months overhead costs to help The Shewsy to get back on its feet post covid 19.

 

February 2021

  • Sport England ‘Return to Play’ gave Shrewsbury House a grant of £2,800 to start a Bicycle Recycle Project. Halfords, along with local families, donated bikes which were restored and put back into the community. Young people were given the skills to maintain their bikes and repair punctures. During the 2021 lockdown and post lockdown in the summer months staff members have taken groups on cycle days out along the Liverpool loop line and the promenade.   A designated space is being converted into a workshop to continue this important activity when bikes are handed in to Shrewsbury House.

 

December 2020

  • The Garfield Weston Foundation awarded Shrewsbury House a grant of £60,000 spread over two years for salary costs post covid 19 to enable the centre to remain operational and to provide us with more time to recover from the lack of opportunities to self-generate income for the centre’s future sustainability. This generous grant from Garfield Weston came just at the right time to help us get back on our feet.

 

 

 

Funding news

We are delighted to announce that we have been granted funding from the @JHRTrust via their “Youth Centre Recovery Fund”.

After a tough year, the club is back up and running to full capacity again and we are close to full. This funding will allow us to continue to offer support to hundreds of young people from our local community and surrounding areas, and now more than ever that support is greatly needed.

We are proud to be working with a funder like Julia and Hans Rausing who understand the need for centres like ours, as they have said recently:

“The last year has been incredibly difficult for young people, whose education and social lives have been severely interrupted by the pandemic. Youth centres play a vital role in providing young people with educational, leisure and Social opportunities”.

We are delighted to be back doing what we love to do for the benefit of the children and young people.

Thank You @JHRTrust, exciting times ahead!