Nowt2Do? Project receives Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service 2013 – 02/06/13

Fred Longworth High School are delighted to learn that in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of The Queen’s Coronation, Her Majesty The Queen has honoured the Nowt2Do Project as recipient of The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service 2013 in recognition of its outstanding voluntary work in the community.

The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service is the highest national honour that can be bestowed upon groups of this kind – it is the MBE for volunteer groups.

The prestigious award is given to exceptional groups across the UK to recognise and reward voluntary groups and volunteers who regularly devote their time to helping others in the community, improving the quality of life and opportunity for others and providing an outstanding service carried out in their local communities.
It recognises work that is of social, economic or environmental service to the local community and is supported, recognised and respected by the people who benefit from it.

PC Andy Wright and representatives from Fred Longworth High School and St. Mary’s Catholic High School will be attending a garden party at Buckingham Palace on 6th June 2013 to celebrate receiving the award. They will be representing all of the youngpeople who have been involved in the project and have been instrumental in its development.

This is the latest in a series of awards won by the school project this year alone. In April 2013 Nowt2Do? received two other prestigious awards. Firstly, Andy and the project received the Wigan Miner’s Lamp Trophy at an Awards Ceremony at Wigan Town Hall from the Chief Constable, Mayor and Chief Superintendent Donnellan on the 16th April 2013. In addition to the Wigan Trophy, Sir Peter Fahy, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police commended PC Andy Wright for outstanding police service in recognition of his work with the Nowt2Do? Project. On presenting the award Sir Peter said it was “in recognition for his personal commitment, dedication and professionalism in creating and developing the Nowt2Do youth project in Wigan. The multi award-winning project has helped children in the community to develop new skills and increase their self-esteem. Constable Wright’s outstanding work has helped to reduce antisocial behaviour in the area.” And only last month the project was awarded a TPAS award for ‘Excellence in Youth Involvement’ for engaging the young tenants of today and the future tenants of tomorrow. The project will now go to the national finals at The Concorde, Manchester Airport on Thursday 11th July.

The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service really is the icing on the cake and it is pleasing to see the all the hard work Andy and the volunteers put in being recognised nationally.

PC Andy Wright from Greater Manchester Police said “Greater Manchester Police, local schools & everyone involved in the ‘Nowt2Do’ project is delighted to be awarded a Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the MBE for volunteer groups. To receive the highest national honour that can be bestowed upon groups like ‘Nowt2Do’ is just amazing. Any person who has volunteered or been involved, in any way with our project over the years should be proud of themselves. We create many different activities for young people who are exceptional people doing exceptional things.”

Deputy Headteacher at Fred Longworth High School, Pete Hodkinson added, “This award is an outstanding tribute to Tyldesley and to all the young people who have helped make this a national and royal success.”

Back To Press Releases

Copyright © 2012 – Fred Longworth High School

Legal

Everyone – this is for you. You all deserve this. All the young people who have attended for years, all the parents, staff, teachers, volunteers, support, funders…. This is for you.

Engaging the young tenants of today and the future tenants of tomorrow is a key task for housing providers and communities. Involving younger people successfully can require a new approach and cannot rely on the more traditional methods of involvement. Opportunities for youth involvement may need to be flexible, innovative, dynamic and relevant in order get engagement and get results. For organisations, involving the younger generation can require high levels of perseverance and commitment. The judges are looking for projects/initiatives which have involved young people to effect positive change in communities by breaking down barriers, or provided valuable insight into the experiences of young tenants or promoted cross generational working and understanding.

Double Award for our School Based Police Officer

PC Andy Wright, School Based Police Officer at Fred Longworth High School has been celebrating this month after receiving two prestigious awards.
Wigan Miner’s Lamp Trophy
Firstly, he received the Wigan Miner’s Lamp Trophy at an Awards
Ceremony at Wigan Town Hall from the Chief Constable, Mayor and Chief
Superintendent Donnellan on the 16th April 2013.
The trophy is a Miner’s Lamp, which was presented to the Chief Constable
by the Mayor of Wigan in 1991 at the official launch of the Wigan Council Central Watch Station. The Chief Constable had directed it be awarded each year in recognition of effort on Division.
This year it was awarded to PC Wright, who during the past 12 months was deemed to have contributed most through personal effort both on and off duty in the field of community care.

Chief Constable’s Commendation

In addition to the Wigan Trophy, Sir Peter Fahy, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police commended PC Andy Wright for outstanding police service in recognition of his work with the Nowt2Do? Project.

Sir Peter said it was “in recognition for his personal commitment, dedication and professionalism in creating and developing the Nowt2Do youth project in Wigan. The multi award winning project has helped children in the community to develop new skills and increase their self-esteem. Constable Wright’s outstanding work has helped to reduce antisocial behaviour in the area.”

Well done Andy from all at Fred Longworth!

Jade Anderson

We are all deeply shocked and saddened by Jade’s tragic death. She had only been a pupil at the school since the summer but had made a real impact in that short time.

Jade was a lively student who always had a smile on her face. She loved music and dance and was a regular at our after school dancing club.

At what turned out to be her last day at school, Jade was given a progress report by her teachers and told everyone was delighted with the progress she was making.

The Fred Longworth community will miss her and our thoughts and sympathies are with her family and friends at this terrible time.

Mrs J Garretts

RIP Jade Anderson from Vikki, Emma, PC Andy Wright and everybody from Nowt2Do?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhiFb7BgTp8

Another Great Nowt2Do? Showcase.

Yesterday a packed audience saw the latest and biggest Nowt2Do? Showcase ever. Nearly 200 young people performed at St Joseph’s Hall, Leigh. The evening started with a special film produced by Nowt2Do? Film Club at Fred Longworth High School. The film highlights some of the difficulties young people face and how the Nowt2Do? Project can help by creating diversionary activities. There were solo vocal performances by Emma Baird and Kieran Hollingsworth, The dance groups performed over 20 dance routines including a solo contemporary performance by Danielle Pollitt-Walmsley. The two new Year 6 primary school dance performances were amazing.
Rockband ‘Standing Room Only’ ended the show with a lively performance.

The Nowt2Do? Project was set-up by PC Andy Wright who is the School Based Police Officer for Fred Longworth High School. All the activities are free of charge and include football, dance, drama, film club, rockskool, samba band, model plane flying club, table tennis, badminton and many more activities. The project started as a 10 week trial in January 09 and has been running ever since such is the demand. PC Wright also runs the project from St Mary’s Catholic High School, Bedford High School and Westleigh High School.

The Nowt2Do? Project is all about prevention, early intervention and reducing anti-social behaviour by some young people. PC Wright said “The show was amazing, It’s wonderful to see so many young people enjoying themselves. Lets get young people engaged in safe, meaningful activities at an early age. Let’s also demonstrate that the majority of our young people are not causing problems in the community. You can’t get rid of a criminal record but you can prevent one”.

Thanks to Fred Longworth High School for their assistance and to the Nowt2Do? Crew who came down and helped out. The end result was amazing.

This article from Fred Longworth Web Page –

Some of our students joined a Real Radio campaign to help restore a community facility in Astley on Saturday 24th November. The kind-hearted students turned up at Tots Plot in Parkfield Avenue armed with spades, wheelbarrows, plants & trees to clear and revamp the garden area of the facility.

They joined other volunteers from the Nowt2Do? project, Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service and local businesses to bring the run down site back to its former state and make it a more useable facility for the local community.

The blag request was sent to Sam and Lorna from the Real Radio Breakfast Show by Gill and Claire from Tyldesley Children’s Centre and their focus was on bringing the people of Astley and Tyldesley together by providing them with a top class facility to ‘make a difference’ to youngsters and their families.

The end result was amazing and Tots Plot is now re-vitalised and is a real asset for the whole community. Local childminders and playgroups can now use the facility and it is also ideal for outdoor learning following the hard work and commitment of the students and volunteers.

Pete Hodkinson, Deputy Headteacher at Fred Longworth High School commented, “We often say that Freddies is an integral part of our local community but on this Saturday morning it was great to see it in action. We provided a bunch of exciting students, all the gardening gear, 40 pair of gloves and a lot of laughs. Well done to everybody who was involved!”

Sam and Lorna from the Real Radio Breakfast Show thanked the students for their hard work and commitment and commented that the work at the Tots Plot could not have been done without their help and enthusiasm.

Pictured at the Tots Plot with some of the students are Fred Longworth High School Deputy Headteacher, Pete Hodkinson, and School Based Police Officer, PC Andy Wright, who assisted on the day.

http://www.realradionorthwest.co.uk/shows/the-feel-good-breakfast/the-breakfast-blag/the-big-breakfast-blag/after-the-big-breakfast-blag/e4581#ad-image-0

Old Trafford details

Dance – Y7, Monday 1 – 2:30pm at Shakerley Community Centre with Emma.

Dance – Y7, Wednesday 1 – 2pm at Fred Longworth High School with Emma.

Drama – Y7 to Y11, Monday 1 – 2:30pm at Shakerley Community Centre with Joleen.

Drama – Y7 to Y11, Thursday 1 – 2:30pm at Fred Longworth High School with Joleen.

Football – Y7, Friday, 12 – 1pm at Fred Longworth High School with Chris.

Football – Y7 to Y11, Friday, 1 – 3pm at Fred Longworth High School with Chris.

Table Tennis – Y7 to Y11, Tuesday, 2 – 4pm at Fred Longworth High School.

Dance – all, Bedford High School, 5 – 6pm

Dance – all Westleigh High School, 5 – 6pm Tuesdays

Dance Lowton high School, 3 – 4 pm Tuesdays

Football, Westleigh High School, 5 – 6pm

Jonathan Edwards on BBC Breakfast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00sm89s