Young reporters from local CLIC sites in Cardiff, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wrexham, Anglesey, Flintshire, Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Vale of Glamorgan, Merthyr Tydfil and Newport spent Friday 9th to Sunday 11th March 2012 rewriting some topics in the CLIC info section and making relevant videos.

To read about the weekend, click here. Photos can be viewed here and videos made are available here.

Caerphilly
Caerphilly’s local CLIC site, Youth4U is set to go live site in the middle of May with an official big launch in September. For more details please contact Nikki Gethfield at gethfn@caerphilly.gov.uk

Young Newport
Young Newport worked with CLIC to rewrite the Info Section at the last Newport Youth Council AGM. It was a really good event and it gave us the opportunity to consult with young people on how they would like the info section to look like.

Torfaen
Torfaen is carrying out further consultation on their name and designs, they hope to get this work completed at the end of April for a launch in June. If you would like more details please contact Rhiannon Bennett at rhiannon.bennett@torfaen.gov.uk

Young Conwy
Young Conwy is the latest county to join in the CLIC Collective with their new look website launched on 26th March at a large youth event in Venue Cymru, Llandudno. The Youth Service, who is responsible for the website, intends to follow this up with another launch event and use their brand new iPads to show off the website to the young people in the county. If you are interested in learning more about Young Conwy then contact post@youngconwy.com

Powys
Powys has named their local CLIC site ‘TOWIP’ and CLIC has been busy working with youth workers and young people to help prepare for an exciting launch planned for early May.

Ceredigion
Ceredigion has recruited their editorial group and is beginning to work on the design for the look of their new site.

Young Wrexham
Young Wrexham has nominated one of their editorial group members to carry the Olympic Torch as it passes through Wales. The chuffed CLICer has written a great article about it – check it out on here.

Pembrokeshire
CLIC delivered ACN training in Youth Information Work to youth workers and ACN training in creative skills for the young people.

Bwsted
The Bwsted project recently managed to secure funding from Gwirvol in order to continue their editorial group’s membership on the Millennium Volunteers scheme. The editorial group will use the funding to complete their 50, 100 and 200 hour volunteering placement where they will be working together in taking forward elements of the project together.

Neath Port Talbot
NPT Shake is nearly here!  The name of the site was decided through a competition which was won by Beth Curtis for her entry “Shake”.  Beth was delighted to win a digital camera and goody bag – well done Beth!

Nearly 1000 young people were consulted with over the initial and final designs of NPT Shake and work has started with groups in NPT to get some really great content up on the site too. Watch this space.

TheSprout
TheSprout held its annual awards ceremony, theSprout Awards, in Chapter in April. The awards are designed to recognise the achievements of the young contributors. Awards included best review, funniest article, best creative article and best video. To see how you can get involved with theSprout e-mail arielle@thesprout.co.uk

The conference, held on March 7th 2012, was held to provide those in the Welsh youth work sector a chance to come together and look at the values of youth work and discuss its direction for the nation.

Leighton Andrews, Minister for Education and Skills, was among the speakers at the event, along with Chris Tweedale, Director, Schools and Young People Group, Dr Brett Pugh, Head of School Standards Unit, and others.

CLIC also attended the event, filming and interviewing speakers and attendees about the importance of youth work.

The excited young people visited the ProMo-Cymru offices and met with the CLIC design team on the morning they arrived.

Later that evening, our staff gave an overview of CLIC, got the young people to register on the website and also shared with them the newly designed Torfaen CLIC site.

Over the next couple of days, different staff members delivered ACN training on online youth information work, creative writing and photography.

We also consulted with the young people on rewriting the CLIC Info Section, getting their opinions on how information in the new info section should be provided and presented.

Over the few days we were able to help over 20 young people gain skills and accreditation on creating content for the Torfaen CLIC site to be launched in May 2012.

We’d like to know where you’ve spotted them, so we’re offering a Flipcam to one lucky winner of our prize draw.

Contact Ryan Heeger at ryan@cliconline.co.uk for more information.

The Manga-inspired cover was designed by 14-year-old Kira Bennett from Torfaen, who won our design the cover competition.

If you would like to write, draw, design or take photos for CLICzine, please contact the editor, Ryan Heeger, at ryan@cliconline.co.uk or on 029 2046 2222.

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This course aims to introduce what is required to set up and run a community sport / physical activity enterprise, as well as familiarising learners with potential sources of funding to support their ideas, and also helping them to develop enterprise ideas based on sport and physical activity.

Learners will be introduced to examples of existing community sport projects and good practice to help you to develop new ideas in relation to your own communities, as well as learning about all the elements that need to come together to make your own project sustainable and successful.

For more information, contact Samantha James at sam@ebbwvaleinstitute.org

“All About YOUth” was an all-day event held in Tonyrefail Leisure Centre in Rhondda Cynon Taff. It was attended by many organisations providing services to young people including WICID, Dynamix, Careers Wales, Job Centre Plus and RCT Services for Young People.

The aim of the event was to ensure young people were able to become more informed about the issues that matter to them.

Lots of CLIC goodies were given out to young people who popped by our stand to find out what CLIC was all about!

CLIC also attended the Bridgend ‘Think About Sex’ event organised by Bridgend Youth Service on the same day and took the opportunity to consult with young people on how information on sexual issues should be provided and presented on CLIConline.

The CLIC Information Section is currently being rewritten and will be relaunched on European Youth Information Day, Tuesday 17th April.

Eleven awards were handed out to individual efforts and projects alike.

Organised by the Welsh Government, the night was hosted by Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens, with Deputy Minister for Skills Jeff Cuthbert, Simon Weston OBE and Daily Mail TV critic Jaci Stephens helping with the process of handing out the awards.

Only Boys Aloud provided musical pieces before the event, ranging from the stirring Calon Lan to a choir version of Take That’s Shine, which made everyone on the CLIC table dance like monkeys who just discovered they’ll receive free bananas for life!

We also held interviews with those who attended, including Huw Edwards, Simon Weston OBE and members of Only Men Aloud, all of which will be uploaded to CLICplay.

Want information on what’s happening in your area or information about youth work? Head to Thanks Sam.

And finally, if you would like to see pictures of the event, head over to CLIC’s Flickr gallery.