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VANEL AGM is on 10th October. Please join us.
VANEL would like to invite Members and Friends to our AGM event on Thursday 10th October 2019 at Grimsby Neighbourhood Centre. Read on for full details of the event.
Decisions Decisions Decisions
This week’s Young Reporters article is by Victoria. She explores the way young people are consulted. Is it tokenistic or are young people’s opinions really being taken onboard?
Curves in all the right places
This week’s article by a Young Reporter is from May. Her article is all about body image. Have a good read.
Divorce – The hidden Costs. Article by our Young Reporter
Latest article by one of young reporters exploring the true impact of divorce on younger people. Read on.
Cyber Security for non-profits. Training and support coming soon
VANEL will be running a new series of Cyber Security for non-profits training starting in September. Read on to find out more and register your interest.
Member news update – meet our recent new Members
We’ve had a few new member organisations come on board – read on to meet them.
Definition of Success. Latest article from a Young Reporter
Our latest weekly article from Young Reporter.
Local lads raise over £5,000 in aid of Cancer Research. Reporting by Young Reporter
Charlotte Lowe is a former Young Reporter and since stopping writing the weekly articles for Grimsby Telegraph, she’s continued in her writing and journalism. Read on for an article she’s just written for the Telegraph community pages about a local fundraising event.
The true meaning of feminism
This weeks article from one of our Young Reporters on the subject of Feminism. Read on.
YMCA to showcase untold history as part of 175th Anniversary Roadshow
YMCA Humber will be hosting an exhibition in Grimsby in September as part of the national YMCA’s 175th Anniversary celebrations. Read on for their full press release to find out all the details about this exciting opportunity.
LGBTQ+ – My Meaning Behind the letters
This week’s article by a Young Reporter tackles the meaning behind the letters LBGTQ
Member news update for July
A monthly roundup of news, events and projects from VANEL Members and Friends. This edition at the end of July 2019 so quite a few bits about Summer activities. Read on.
Blue Lights Brigade Summer update
Blue Lights Brigade has had a busy Summer. Lots of events. Lots more volunteers engaged with and trained up through our CERT teams. Read our full report here.
Helping Young People Help Each Other to lead their Communities – the IGNITE programme reaches a milestone
As the National Lottery funded period closes for the VANEL IGNITE programme, we are very please to have managed to secure other new investment to continue some of the excellent work delivered by the team over the last three years. Read on to find out about our departing team and how IGNITE continues…
Dame Kelly Holmes and our Get on Track for Wellbeing project
Get on Track for Wellbeing is a community-based personal, social and emotional development programme designed to help young people become more physically active and to improve their mental wellbeing. VANEL are working with Dame Kelly Holmes Trust to deliver this programme to young people aged 16-24 in Grimsby. Read on to find out much more.
Romanticising mental illness needs to stop.
Young Reporter Hannah shares here thoughts about how the very real issues of mental illness are being romanticised by the press and on social media. Read her article.
Capacity Buildings secures National Lottery support
VANEL Member organisation Capacity Buildings has just received a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £10,000 for an exciting heritage project named Community Housing Association Memorials. Read on to find out more about the project.
Discrimination in the media. Article by Young Reporter
Civil rights activists have changed the way that governments treat minority groups, however people belonging to those groups still feel as though they aren’t being treat as fairly as other people are. Read the article by Young Reporter Maddy.
Cleethorpes Community Cops was at Cleethorpes Police Station as it closes and the local policing team moves to the Knoll
Over the past year, VANEL has been leading a project to research and archive the history of policing in Cleethorpes. The project has now come to an end and this week the results of this “Cleethorpes Community Cops” project were on display at Cleethorpes Police Station at a bitter-sweet event organised by the Police to mark the final closure of the Police Station after nearly 90 years of service. Read on for the story of the event, along with lots of photos and information about Cleethorpes Cops project.
“A compliment? Or crude?” This week’s article from our Young Reporters
This week’s article from one of our Young Reporters. Read on.