Our wonderful Youth have been creating some beautiful Arts and Crafts over the last few weeks, below are two examples!
Arts and Crafts by our 10-17’s group!
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Litter-picking and Archery Fun
This week, our social groups joined forces with Paul Edwards from Platform Housing, to help our community with local litter-picks.
Our 10-15s Sky Autism Support Group went litter picking around the Malvern Vale Community Centre, which was followed up with some indoor archery afterwards! Some incredible “joined up” community work!!!
Indoor Archery
Our 16+ group met at Wetherspoons and found that, Great Malvern was considerably quite clean! Some of our guys stayed inside, enjoying a few games and a lot of laughter!
16+ Litter Pick – 13.10.2021
So much litter!!
It’s so lovely to be serving the community, whilst also having fun and building social skills together!!
Job Opportunities
Current vacancies: –
Job Title: Co-lead – Sessional Youth Worker
- Facilitate in the planning, preparation and running of a range of group work activities (such as physical activities, outings, and mentally stimulating group activities).
- To engage with young people and build positive relationships with them using effective communication and listening skills. To disclose any relevant concerns to the Lead – Sessional Youth Worker.
- Work efficiently within a team to facilitate smooth and enjoyable groups sessions.
- Attend and complete all essential training (Safeguarding, Basic Autism Training, etc) within the appointed timeframes.
- Maintain confidentiality regarding young peoples’ personal and sensitive information.
- Attend and contribute in regular meetings including supervision which comprise of session planning, morale, updates, etc.
- Maintain flexibility to complete other duties/training reasonably requested by your Lead – Sessional Youth Worker.
- Adhere to all policies and work in adherence with the Equality Act 2010 which prohibits discrimination of any kind.
- All offers of employment are subject to and conditional upon a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
Please email ruth.skyautism@gmail.com for further information
Daisy: Me and My Cooking
Daisy is a member of our Women’s Group and has kindly written this blog post for us.
My Name is Daisy. I said that I would never go back to college. However, surprisingly, I went back to college to study professional catering in September 2020. I am unsure still of my main ambition, but I know my passion does not involve becoming a chef.
I love to look at the odd recipe and put my own spin on it (adapt it). My dyslexia has given me this advantage in the kitchen as I don’t like to read recipes. That is why I love to think outside the box and make up my own.
What got me interested in Cooking, making up my own recipes and adapting them, is my intolerance to lots of different foods. i.e. sugars, gluten, dairy to name a few.
I started my own YouTube channel (@Daisy Merle) and Instagram (@DaisyMerle4) in attempt to find a way of showing children how fun and easy cooking/baking can be, and to really challenge myself to see where it could take me.
People face numerous amounts of rejection and obstacles throughout their journey to achieving their main goal in life, myself included. My YouTube channel was not easy and was a learning curve for me, as I had to learn to edit videos and to cook and speak clear instructions, all whilst in front of a camera. I am still learning and am very hopeful that one day, I will achieve something big with this.
If you are passionate about something, the most important thing, is to Never give up. Furthermore, when it comes to improving, it is vital that you never stop trying and persevering. This is what I do with my recipes.
The only way to find the perfect recipe in my eyes, is to never stop experimenting with new ideas. Even if a specific recipe of yours does not work out. Keep trying and you might be surprised.
Unlike other people with food intolerances that I know, I have never really felt limited by the variety of foods I can eat. I feel that staying off gluten and sugar , have helped my Autism symptoms. Now when people come over to eat who can’t eat certain foods I have to think on my feet and adapt recipes to fit their needs.
Never give up on your child as they might surprise you, I would have never thought I could eat the variety of foods that I do. When I was a child all I really ate was rice cakes or baked beans no greens or vegetables. This is the opposite of what I eat now.
I will continue to consider ways to adapt recipes so that people with allergies, food intolerances, children/people of all ages and with other challenges such as autism, Parkinson’s, or cerebral palsy etc., can experience the joy of cooking and feeling NO limitation when it comes to enjoying a meal.
Find out more about me via my YouTube channel & Instagram and to get involved, Click Below…
YouTube: Daisy Merle – YouTube
Instagram: Daisy Merle (@daisymerle4)
Women’s Group Bake Off!
The SKY Women’s Group held a Bake Off on zoom last Sunday. The theme was ‘Spring cakes’. Five of our amazing young women took part and they all made some fantastic cakes.
It was a really enjoyable afternoon and we are hoping to run another Bake Off soon to make brownies and flapjacks!
Edward has raised £356.25 for SKY!
In June we shared that Edward had challenged himself to cycle 150 miles to raise money for SKY. We are really pleased to let everyone know that Edward completed his challenge and, in doing so, has raised an amazing £356.235 for SKY!
All of us at SKY are incredibly grateful for Edward’s hard work, and for the help from his parents (Sue and David) in supporting Edward to achieve this goal. We would also like to thank everyone that donated. The money raised will be used to help SKY to continue to run the social groups for young people and adults.
Thank you Edward!!
