I very much hope you and your friends and family are staying well.

Since the government’s decision to close all schools the team at South Bristol Youth has been deciding how best to help the young people we work with, given we can no longer run our programmes in the normal way.

Our team have been working really hard over the past few weeks; here is what we’re doing:

• Developing a range of resources that mirror the programmes we are running. Students will receive these at regular intervals throughout the summer term. Most will be accessible via our website – but we will also be:
• Delivering messages and packs of resources to the students in the post.
• Sending information to the students via their school email addresses.
• Sending information to parents and carers directly via the contact details we already have.
• Resources will include information packs, short videos, quizzes, activities and links to other useful websites. Where we can, we will work with our partner organisations to develop or direct resources.
• We hope that students in our cohorts still feel they are part of a special programme even though they are not at school.
• SBY staff will continue to work closely with our school link staff. We will be asking what else we may be able to do in order to support the students. This may be outside our normal work but could be valuable to the students and schools at this difficult time.
• We would love to receive feedback on the work we are doing and this can be sent to comms@southbristolyouth.org.uk; parents and carers can also contact their young person’s SBY staff member direct.

At this time of year SBY would normally begin to plan our delivery of programmes for the next academic year. Though there is still some uncertainty we will continue to do this as normal as we would love to resume our activities as soon as possible!

Thank you all very much for your continuing support and help. Hopefully we will all be back to normal soon.

My best wishes

Camilla Chandler
Leader of the SBY Team