Boscombe's arty youngsters get creative for children's rights (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Boscombe's arty youngsters get creative for children's rights
4:00pm Sunday 5th August 2012 in News By Jane Reader
YOUNG people in Bournemouth’s most deprived area will take part in a unique and creative project to highlight the universal Rights of the Child.
Up to 30 11 to 16-year-olds will use drama, art, song, rap or dance during the week-long event in Boscombe’s Churchill Gardens.
Now the leaders, Bournemouth YMCA’s Young Citizens team, have urged members of the public to nominate youngsters to take part in the project, which starts on Monday, August 6 and ends with a performance in a marquee on Friday, August 10.
Called Behind the Scenes, its aim is to explore their creativity and take part in something they would not normally be involved in.
“It’s important to make sure young people’s voices are heard, irrespective of background” said local councillor, Christopher Wakefield.
And Glen Harvey from the YMCA said: “This is an opportunity for the young people of Boscombe to express themselves.”
The Rights of the Child include the right to a standards of living good enough to meet your needs, the right to relax, play and join in a wide range of activities and the right to be protected from dangerous drugs.
More than half of 0-15-year-olds in the area are defined as income deprived and 41 per cent of their older siblings and parents are unemployed, the highest in the south west.
To nominate a young person to take part in Behind the Scenes workshops or the Friday performance, please contact glen.harvey@bournemouthymca.org.uk.
Comments(10)
bccafriends
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8:28pm Sun 5 Aug 12
Whilst the initiative in the article is to be applauded, it is like so many in Boscombe to be held in temporary accommodation; for a short period only; or in acommodation which is an extremely small like an empty shop. Cllr. Wakefield would have done a great deal more for the "Rights of the Child" had he stood up and be counted on behalf of children when it mattered.
The law pertaining to Human Rights is one area that people living in horrendous conditions in Boscombe have yet to explore.
Liberty Belle
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1:22am Mon 6 Aug 12
Katherine Edgar
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8:24am Mon 6 Aug 12
Glen Harvey from the YMCA said: “This is an opportunity for the young people of Boscombe to express themselves.”
The Rights of the Child include the right to a standards of living good enough to meet your needs, the right to relax, play and join in a wide range of activities and the right to be protected from dangerous drugs.
Harvey and Wakefield, what about ALL OF BOSCOMBES CHILDREN, EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR?
Why do you support the demolition and asset stripping of the historic Boscombe Centre for Community and Arts? The BCCA was given in trust for "the education of the poor, deprived, manufacturing and working class Children and Adults of Boscombe, forever." The BCCA is a place of learning, creativity and well-being for All, built for the children of Boscombe 134 years ago and needed NOW more than ever, this is why over 3000 members, local Doctors, Teachers and Businesses support its re-instatement as vital infrastructure.
Katherine Edgar
BCCA Governor
Azphreal
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9:49am Mon 6 Aug 12
earthwise
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10:28am Mon 6 Aug 12
As do the rest of the Common Purpose minions.......
Our Children are not just for a week in August......
They are born with inalienable rights as are ALL of us.......ツ
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s-pb2
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10:57am Mon 6 Aug 12
And why are we describing the children of Boscombe as the most deprived? If they were that deprived and in any danger as people seem to suggest, they would be in foster care!
O'Reilly
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11:20am Mon 6 Aug 12
GetInThere
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9:00pm Mon 6 Aug 12
Katherine Edgar wrote:I agree with SFF. This is a great story. Heart-warming to see that youth arts will not disappear completely from Boscombe where it's so desperately needed. The YMCA do great youth work all year round but nice to see them stepping it up for the summer when so many other summer activities have been cut. Wish the Echo wouldn't keep using the word 'deprived' though but well done to all involved!
Wow..."up to 30, 11-16 year olds for one week"
Glen Harvey from the YMCA said: “This is an opportunity for the young people of Boscombe to express themselves.”
The Rights of the Child include the right to a standards of living good enough to meet your needs, the right to relax, play and join in a wide range of activities and the right to be protected from dangerous drugs.
Harvey and Wakefield, what about ALL OF BOSCOMBES CHILDREN, EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR?
Why do you support the demolition and asset stripping of the historic Boscombe Centre for Community and Arts? The BCCA was given in trust for "the education of the poor, deprived, manufacturing and working class Children and Adults of Boscombe, forever." The BCCA is a place of learning, creativity and well-being for All, built for the children of Boscombe 134 years ago and needed NOW more than ever, this is why over 3000 members, local Doctors, Teachers and Businesses support its re-instatement as vital infrastructure.
Katherine Edgar
BCCA Governor
GetInThere
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9:05pm Mon 6 Aug 12
SFF says...
4:46pm Sun 5 Aug 12
We need proper investment in children in Boscombe. That is why it is such a scandal to demolish the BCCA which could have provided education and opportunity in the Arts for the most deprived children in the whole of the South West.
It provided services for education for children for 100 years. Since its closure children can only hang out on the streets of Boscombe among the drug dealers and prostitutes.
The BCCA was gifted to the Council with strict covenants that it be used for education for the underpriviledged of the area.
If you think the arts are the way forward to help the children of Boscombe escape drugs and crime as a way of life, then why are you destroying the BCCA. It makes no sense.
Nice to have it for one week, but as I have said OK for kids who already have confidence to perform in front of others. They need activities all year round, particularly in the winter months.