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Links to sites which provide useful and interesting resources and information for young people and adults who work with them.
Participation Works is a consortium of six leading children and young people's organisations that provides expert advice to anyone wanting to give a voice to children and young people.
Count Me In Calendar is the place to find information about national and global Awareness Campaigns, Charity Events, Charity Challenges, Multi-Faith Celebrations, National Days, Green Events and more...
Thmbnls is the world's first interactive drama created especially for viewing on mobile phones. Aimed at young people aged 16+ the drama develops during weekly episodes. Sign up at
Feed Your Forehead! Cranuim Caviar is maintained by Avon and Somerset Police in order to give young people information and activity ideas that relate to crime and community safety. Well worth a look.
The new website for young people's contraceptive and sexual health services in Somerset. A huge amount of very useful and relevant information.
Somerset County Council's Outdoor Education Advisor website. This site contains all the guidance, templates, flowcharts and paperwork you need when organising a trip or visit from a SCC base. The forms are updated regularly in response to user feedback, so please don't save templates on your computer - download the most recent version from here each time you organise a trip.
www.six.somerset.gov.uk/sccoea/
Awsom is a search engine that allows you to find activities in Somerset for young people aged 11-19. You can also find out about sources of funding to develop new activities, transport links to get you there, and you can also tell us if there's something you want but can't find.
WorldWide Volunteering is a non-profit making organisation whose aim is to make it easier for people of all ages to volunteer. We do this by providing instant access to information about the widest range of volunteering opportunities throughout the UK and worldwide.
The WWV database enables volunteers to build an on-screen profile of their ideal volunteer placement which is then matched against the requirements of over 1700 organisations with more than 1,500,000 placements each year throughout the world.
About My Area is a site that uses local correspondents to provide information about what's going on in your local area. Not all areas of Somerset are covered but its getting better all the time. Log on, put in your postcode and hey presto!
Somerset's Event Planner website is a practical resource to help you run a successful, safe and well planned event, carnival or festival.
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Common Knowledge is a site that provides online learning, accessible information and social networking for people with learning difficulties. A huge amount of information is available and it is a good resource for young people and adults.
Look Out 4 Ur M8s is an online game which encourages people to look out for their mates when out drinking.Set in a nightclub, the game challenges players to find their friends at the end of a night out, so everybody can travel home safely together. As you progress through the game the amount of alcohol your character has drunk increases, and it becomes more difficult to move around the club.
There's also a Facebook group in which you can pledge to look out for your mates
Funding Central is a free smart website which provides access to thousands of funding oportunities available from government and government non-departmental bodies and agencies, local and regional government, charitable organisations and foundations, and the EU.
www.fundingcentral.org.uk
Somerset's Chlamydia screening programme is part of a national programme aimed at testing sexually active 15-24 year olds for Chlamydia. This is importnant because:
- Most people don't know they have it (up to 70/% will have no symptoms),
- One in twelve will screen positive
- Up to 40% will suffer long term affects such as infertility as a result of untreated Chlamydia.
The programme offers young people the chance to take a DIY testing kit from over 350 sites around Somerset as well as the opportunity to order a kit online.
www.somerset.nhs.uk/checkitout
