Sponsorship helps youth group continue good work
The NIP Crew a group of young people in North Edinburgh who work with their peers on intergenerational activities enjoyed a well earned break at the Pilton Retreat in Ratho earlier this year.The aim of the residential was to enable the group to do some team building and to look at what they want to achieve in the coming year. The NIP Crew lost a couple of young people who went on to do other things but new members have joined and the residential offered a great way for the new crew to get to know each other.
This opportunity would not have been possible without sponsorship from local land owner National Grid who is currently regenerating a 110acre site in Granton that was once a former gasworks. The NIP Crew receive no funding and rely on contributions to operate, so a very big thank you to National Grid. Further funding from National Grid also allowed the NIP Crew to buy new fleece tops with their logo on to help identify them and keep them cosy when they are out and about speaking to other young people in the area and will enable them to organise another intergenerational event in the local community. These events help the Crew maintain the relationships they have made with local senior citizen groups.
One member said: łThe couple of days away were great - we all go to know each other better. There was no one to moan at us or to ask us to move on for being too loud, which we know we can be at times (chuckle).˛ On the last night of the residential it started to snow, and the NIP Crewe thought they would be stranded but fortunately Ken at the Ratho was able to get the mini-bus out much to the appreciation of coordinator Tracy Stewart and youth worker Jordan Irvine!
The NIP Crew is now looking at available funding to allow them to visit Germany where they hope to learn how families there have dealt with intergenerational conflict around the second world war. The group are very interested in how different cultures and backgrounds deal with intergenerational conflict to see what they could learn from this experience and how this could help them address similar conflicts in their own community.
This opportunity would not have been possible without sponsorship from local land owner National Grid who is currently regenerating a 110acre site in Granton that was once a former gasworks. The NIP Crew receive no funding and rely on contributions to operate, so a very big thank you to National Grid. Further funding from National Grid also allowed the NIP Crew to buy new fleece tops with their logo on to help identify them and keep them cosy when they are out and about speaking to other young people in the area and will enable them to organise another intergenerational event in the local community. These events help the Crew maintain the relationships they have made with local senior citizen groups.
One member said: łThe couple of days away were great - we all go to know each other better. There was no one to moan at us or to ask us to move on for being too loud, which we know we can be at times (chuckle).˛ On the last night of the residential it started to snow, and the NIP Crewe thought they would be stranded but fortunately Ken at the Ratho was able to get the mini-bus out much to the appreciation of coordinator Tracy Stewart and youth worker Jordan Irvine!
The NIP Crew is now looking at available funding to allow them to visit Germany where they hope to learn how families there have dealt with intergenerational conflict around the second world war. The group are very interested in how different cultures and backgrounds deal with intergenerational conflict to see what they could learn from this experience and how this could help them address similar conflicts in their own community.