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Posted: 19th December 2019

A great year for Alpha!

New club completes first year

We had a little celebration for our Alpha Club members this week as they reached the end of their first year.  The Alpha Club started early this year, and it's been a great success.

Thanks to the funding we received from the Mayor of London's Young Londoners Fund, we were able to start a brand new project aimed at teaching valuable life skills to young people on the autistic spectrum.

  Frank & Curtis 

Aimed at young people aged 10-16 in Barking & Dagenham, Redbridge and Havering with high functioning autism who access a mainstream school, the project is based in Rainham on Wednesday evenings between 6.30 and 8.30pm.

The programme consists of five modules designed to to enable our young people to learn the skills required to fulfil their potential and include such topics as basic living, healthy life styles, social skills and safer relationships.  We also have an identical group that runs on a Thursday night in Dagenham.

 

With a few days to go before Christmas, we reached the end of our first year and we wanted to recognise those members who had contributed so much to the first year and they were presented with a certificate and gift by Sycamore's Marketing Manager Steve Dixon.  

John & Nathan

All the Alpha members will be invited to continue on the programme in 2020 by joining our new Steering Group, with the aim of fine tuning the project for new members and we're now open for new members for next year.  If you know a young person with autism, aged between 10-16 living in Havering, Redbridge or Barking & Dagenhyam who would benefit from a bit of support in things like, cooking, cleaning, ironing a shirt or just improving social skills, put them in touch with Sue on 020 8517 9317 or email activities@sycamoretrust.org.uk.  We look forward to a brand new intake in 2020!

Sophia

Frank & John

Kelly & Penny

Sam & Charles

Lisa & Joseph