The New Year has got off to a flying start with all our usual youth activities and programmes back up and running after the festive break. In addition, in partnership with Lancing Parish Council, we’ve started to run a Youth Café every Wednesday after school. This offers young people a warm, safe space to relax, connect and make friends, creative, play games or simply chill out.

Young people feedback

On Thursday evening this week, we had a great Youth Forum, where young people were joined by Rachael Dines from Shake It Up Creative. Rachael led an interactive workshop and among many questions, she asked young people, why they joined ESY, what they enjoyed most, what would they miss, if we weren’t here, and importantly how would they like us to communicate with them in the future and what they felt about the look and feel of the charity. Ideas and feedback quickly began to flow and it was heart-warming to hear how important ESY was to them and in some cases the difference we made to individuals’ lives.

Raising our profile  

In mid-January, we were delighted to welcome Emma Davies as part of the ESY team. As our Business Office Manager, Emma is already making a real difference to how we manage the charity as she brings with her a wealth of experience. Over the coming weeks, Emma will be looking at our office systems and getting them into shape, as well as raising our communications profile, via our website and across our social media.

Join our team

Although we are a charity, we know that we must operate in an effective, business-like manner. Therefore, at the beginning of the month we advertised for a Chief Executive Officer (CEO). We are now  nearing the deadline for applications, which close at 12 noon on Friday 31^st January. The CEO will be responsible for the overall day-to-day running of the charity and to provide effective executive leadership and direction. They will also have full responsibility for the effective, top-level management and development of all services connected with the charity (including our charity shop), and to be responsible for the standard of support provided to all those using those services.

Meeting the growing demand



As the demand for our youth services grows, we also need to growth our youth team. Therefore, we also recruiting for a part-time sessional youth worker to join our team to support our senior youth work manager and assist other members of our youth team in the delivery of our wide range of innovative, high quality of activities and support to young people. Applications close at 12 noon on Friday 28^th February.

For more information about both posts and to download an application pack at https://www.electricstormyouth.co.uk/jobs