Families, children and young people
- About the Funky Lizard network
- News and events
- Facebook group
- Funky Lizard volunteers booklet
- Partnership Work in Action booklet 2007-2009
- Funky Lizard images
- Children and Young People Partnership Priorities - 2010-2011
- Parenting support
- Being a Representative and Representatives Support Pack
- Links
Do you work with parents, children and teenagers? Join the Funky Lizard network!
The Funky Lizard Network is unique, in that it brings together all people who provide activities and services for families, children and young people in the voluntary, community or faith (VCF) sector. Our aim is to celebrate the VCF sector, to learn together and to have a voice where decisions are made.
The Funky Lizard ensures that the voluntary, community and faith sector has a voice at the Tameside Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership. Anyone can join us at these meetings and find out what the decision makers are saying.
If you work with families, children, or young people you can be a member of the Funky Lizard, and the best part is, it’s absolutely free!
The benefits
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Discover all about the fantastic work of others - share skills and knowledge.
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Free advertising and a stall at events promoting your services.
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Receive Funky Lizard updates so you can keep up to date with current trends and laws that impact your project.
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Receive signposting to great training (the common core) and development opportunities and to specialist support when you need help.
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Have a key point of contact that can help you link in with other people, and enhance your partnership work with other providers, including schools, the council, police and the fire service.
Opportunities to get involved
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Take part in surveys and discussions - let people know what you think and ensure that representatives have the evidence to guarantee you are heard.
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Be part of a funding panel - see funding from the other side.
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Volunteer to help - do something different by volunteering for one off special events or help in our lively and friendly office with specific projects.
Policy and Participation Officer - Children and young people's agenda
Veronica Hyde
If you want more information contact me.
Tel: 0161 339 4985
Or email me
News and events
Tournaments, football training sessions and free match tickets for youth groups from FC United of Manchester
FC United of Manchester will be playing some of their home matches in Stalybridge this season and they will be carrying out some community work in the area over the next few months. They can offer groups and organisations, working with young men aged 16-19, the following events and services:
- Tournaments for 6-a-side teams of 16-19 year olds. Saturday 18 September, Copley Sports Centre, 12pm-2pm. All participants get free admission to the FC United match that kicks off at Stalybridge Celtic’s ground at 3pm.
- Community Cohesion Tournament for 16-19 year olds. Sunday 24 October, Copley Sports centre, 12pm-2pm. All participants get free admission to the FC United match that kicks off at Stalybridge Celtic’s ground at 3pm. All teams should bring a squad of 10 players. At least 30% of the players must be of a different ethnic group to the largest ethnic group represented in the squad.
- Free training sessions from FC United coaches. They can offer four free coaching sessions from FC United coaches, to groups intending to enter a team to the Community Cohesion tournament above. All you have to provide is a suitable venue for the sessions to take place. Ideally, these sessions should start in mid September and take place weekly running up to the date of the tournament. There is no funding for transport to the tournament.
- Free tickets to other matches played at Stalybridge. They can offer free tickets to FC United matches for community groups and community projects. Their other fixtures at Stalybridge this season are on Sunday 5 September and Sunday 19 December.
- They have plans for a Senior United Day on 6 November when their home match in Bury will be free to all over 50s, and community groups bringing people in this age category from Tameside will be very welcome.
- They are planning a People United Day on 20 November when there will be free admission to under 18s at their home match in Bury, as part of an anti-racism celebration. Again, Tameside based groups would be very welcome.
- Tournaments for community centres and youth clubs. They have had some interest from community centres in Manchester and Bury who are interested in organising tournaments for mixed age teams of 10-12 year olds and 7-9 year olds. There would be a cost attached to participating in these tournaments of around £90. If there are organisations in Tameside interested in taking part in tournaments or hosting a tournament, then they would be pleased to hear from you.
If you have any questions about these events, contact Robin Pye, Tel: 07794 122 602.
Tameside Participation Project - 14 September
Bookings are being taken for the Tameside Participation Project course, which starts on 14 September, between 5.45-9pm at Greenside Children’s Centre, Greenside Lane, Droylsden, Tameside, M43 7RA.
This training is ideal for organisations which are starting to think about how to develop children and young people’s participation to help shape their services.
You will benefit from:
- Gaining knowledge of participation practice and theory from experienced and knowledgeable trainers.
- A number of organisations/services demonstrating commitment will benefit from a free consultancy package from the participation project to support embedding the participation of service users.
- An opportunity to network and share good practice.
This is a free half day training course for services and organisations across Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. Places are limited so please book early.
Please note food will not be available – there will be an evening session for those services and organisations that operate during the evening and find it difficult to attend in the day.
For further details of this training course and to book a place, Email: tina.lavender@4children.org.uk
Facebook group
Join the Funky Lizard Facebook group for updates, events and discussions.
Volunteers booklet
We are proud to be able to bring you a small selection of stories about volunteers - a snap shot of the range and diversity of volunteer roles. We hope that each story brings about the realisation that volunteers are not added value, they are actual value. It is volunteers, and volunteering itself, that makes a difference.
Funky Lizard Volunteers booklet
Partnership Work in Action booklet 2007-2009
This booklet tells you about the people in the community, voluntary and faith sector who make a difference to the lives of families, children and young people. It also explains how the Funky Lizard network helps the sector celebrate what it does, how it learns together and how it influences change for the sector and for the people it serves. Funky Lizard would not have grown to where we are today without the support of our partners, so we give special thanks to you all.
Funky Lizard Partnership Work in Action booklet
Funky Lizard images
Below is a link to a set of photographs taken at the last Funky Lizard conference on Flickr.
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Children and Young People Partnership Priorities - 2010-2011
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Promote healthy lifestyles with particular
focus on obesity and alcohol.
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Improve emotional health and well-being for
all children, young people and their families.
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Promote the safety of all children and
young people in all settings with a focus on
domestic violence.
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Increase the proportion of young people
moving into education, training and
employment and promote positive role
models.
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Continue to raise attendance and attainment
at all phases of learning with a strategic
focus on vulnerable children and looked after
children and continue to narrow the gap for
the lowest achieving children.
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Reduce the rates of teenage pregnancy.
Click here to see our Policy briefings page.
Think Family and the support package available to parents in Tameside
The parenting offer in Tameside is growing with some key projects developing to support parenting and families within the Think Family context.
There are key drivers from the government that are greatly influencing this agenda around ‘Think Family’. Tameside, as other Local Authorities, have received some time limited funding to help support the targeted development and delivery of some projects to undertake work with families.
See our Parenting page for more on what is currently happening in Tameside and the projects being delivered and how your service can access, signpost or refer to.
Click here to see our Policy briefings page.
Being a Representative and Representatives Support Pack
Click here to find out the role, responsibilities and benefits of being a Representative.
Links
Backing young Britain: Bringing businesses and public and voluntary sectors together to ensure that the valuable skills and experience of our young people aren't being wasted.
British Youth Council: The national youth council for young people in the UK aged under 26. BYC represents and involves a unique coalition of young people through their involvement as individuals or through their youth organisations.
Bullying online: Help and advice for parents, pupils, schools and a range of others potentially affected by bullying.
Child Accident Prevention Trust: National charity committed to reducing the number of children and young people killed, disabled and seriously injured as a result of accidents.
Child Line: Free 24 hour helpline for children and young people in the UK. Children and young people can call 0800 1111 about any problem at any time - day or night.
Children England: Umbrella organisation for voluntary child care organisations in England.
Children's Plans on NFER: Check out your local authority's Children's Plan.
Children's Workforce Development Council: Resources, policy and good practice information and tendering opportunities related to the children's workforce.
Connexions: UK Government's strategy to ensure every young person gets the best start in life.
Department for Children, Schools and Families: Information on Government policy and practice.
Every Child Matters: Government programme of change to improve outcomes for all children and young people.
National Association of Youth Justice: Promotes the rights of, and justice for, children in trouble.
National Council for Voluntary Youth Services: Independent national body which represents and supports voluntary organisations working with young people in England.
National Family and Parenting Institute: Works to support parents in bringing up their children, to promote the well-being of families and to make society more family friendly.
National Youth Agency: Supporting and improving work with young people.
One parent families: Promotes the welfare of lone parents and their children.
Purple Youth: Online resource for professionals working with young people.
The Safe network: A unit for the VCF sector to safeguard the eight million children in England who take part in organised activities.
Working families: Helps children, working parents and carers and their employers find a better balance between responsibilities at home and work.
Youth information: Information resource for young people including over 1,000 information topics and contact details for more than 1,200 national organisations.
