Milton Keynes & Bedford “Young People are our Future” 

Just 3 weeks to go - Update

Less 3 weeks to go until the Young People are our Future events in MK & Bedford, I thought I would provide you all with an update of what's been happening...

Monday 14th November - Jury's Inn CMK / Friday 18th November - Bedford School Bedford

MK LIONS HAVE NOW JOINED THE PARTY

MK Lions have now confirmed they will be attending the event and providing attendees with some FREE tickets to their next home game in MK. 

This is a great opportunity for young people to meet some local sporting giants.

3RD LENS WILL BE FILMING THE EVENT FOR TV

We are very excited to announce that local production company 3rd Lens will be filming the The Young People are our Future event for TV 

IKON PHOTOGRAPHY 

PROFESSIONAL PHOTOS FOR EVERY OCCASION 

A local professional photography company will be at the event to capture every smile and dance move. Photos will be published on the Life Skills web site & Flicker 

UNLEASH THAT HIDDEN TALENT WITH JO TINKER

Local singing coach, Jo Tinker will be running a fantastic workshop where young people will be taught some simple exercises to train their voices and then will 

participate in a huge group sing-a-long to a popular song

LEARN SOME PRACTICAL AND EFFECTIVE LIFE SKILLS 

Young People will develop some basic skills to improve their personal safety, confidence and ability to identify and avoid a potentially dangerous situation.

Life Skills for Children in the ultimate anti-bulling course available to young people today

   A big thank you to MK NEWS who will be promoting the event in their 26th October publication and Three Counties Radio who are helping to spread the word 

   

Please help us create an awareness of these events by providing the relevant details on your Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages

Please contact gary@lifeskillsforchildren.co.uk for further information on how you can get involved and help local young people

Imagine several hundred young people and their families experiencing two hours of high energy activities and having FUN, whilst raising money for Children in Need. Its going to be FANTASTIC. These events are being filmed for TV so why not come in your school / group uniform or fancy dress 

Help Us -   The next few weeks will be dedicated to getting several hundred young people and their families to the events in MK and Bedford. We need your help to promote this event, so please direct as many people as you can to www.lifeskillsforchildren.co.uk where they can download a poster of the events and find out more information.

We are specifically interested in working with schools and groups that can bring groups of young people to the event. If you work within such a school or group and can bring a group of young people, please contact gary@lifeskillsforchildren.co.uk or michelle@reactiv8.org.uk

Maybe you know some influential people who are local or national heroes from the world of sport, TV, music. The more influential people we have at the events the more powerful the message.

Milton Keynes - Monday 14th November - Jury's Inn, CMK - Starts at 4 pm for 2 hours

Bedford Event - Friday 18th November - Bedford School, Erskine May hall, De Parys Avenue - Starts at 7 pm for 2 hours

Remember, a driving force behind the event is the opportunity to:

1. Raise money for Children in Need

2. Demonstrate that practical and effective life skills training can be fun and engaging

3. Demonstrate that there are a lot of good local services available to young people

Event Organisers

Gary  - 07725 481769 / gary@lifeskillsforchildren.co.uk 

Michelle - 07966 685530 / michelle@reactiv8.org.uk

Home Retail is hosting a very successful Personal Safety event

Wednesday 30th November - Home Retail Group, CMK

Home Retail HQ in CMK is the venue for a personal safety event that has been successfully delivered to over 15,000 people from all over the city over the last few years.

The seminar is dedicated to learning some simple and practical skills to increase an individuals personal safety.

CPDT (Corporate Progressive Development Training) are providing a two hour event, which will tackle many of the concerns local people have regarding their personal safety. 

Issues such as knife avoidance and being assaulted from behind will be dealt with amongst other things. The response from those that attended the last event was very positive.

“I was very impressed with the lack of “holding back” and that made the scenarios more realistic which in turn did not leave you thinking “could I do that?”.  I have been in classes 

(I have a couple of belts in tai kwon do) where instructors are a bit soft though knowledgeable but this did leave you feeling “would this work?” this class however took the practice to the next level. This is definitely a class I would recommend to any person in business as however much or little you got “stuck in” you benefited and there was no room for being self conscious”. said Liane for Argos.

The statistics surrounding violent assaults are quite staggering with 1 in 4 women suffering some form of abuse and 2 women a week losing their lives through a physical assault. Men are equally likely to become a victim with assaults against men showing an alarming spike in certain areas over the last few years. 

This event was designed to provide people with some basic skills to significantly reduce the chance of them becoming a victim, said a CPDT representative.

The Home Retail Group is committed to providing their employees and the local community with services that increase their personal safety and confidence. The benefits of having a work force of confident, safe and productive individuals are clear to see on a daily basis.

Further information on this event can be found at the CPDT web site: www.cpdtrainingco.com