HSYAReview2024 - Flipbook - Page 6
The High Sheriff
Youth Awards
in 2024-2025
Intergenerational Music
Making
SparkFish
Intergenerational Music Making (IMM)
pioneers co-produced music projects,
training, workshops, and events in the
UK. Over a decade in Surrey, IMM
engaged 200+ schools, PRUs, care
homes, and community groups.
SparkFish is a local charity based in
Redhill that exists to inspire young
people in faith, hope and love.
SparkFish has three strands of work:
Activities include song writing, therapy,
choirs, and orchestras. A 12-week rap
project targeted 9 -18 year-olds in
Woking, fostering positive relationships
and addressing specific needs. Led by
experienced producers and therapists,
it facilitated creative expression and
intergenerational mentoring,
showcasing positive outcomes. Goals
involved engagement in positive
activities, reducing anti-social
behaviour, and fostering self-discipline
and citizenship. Despite COVID-19
challenges, the project mitigated
isolation's impact, improving emotional
well-being. Aligned with HSYA funding,
it effectively targeted at-risk youth,
reducing potential anti-social behaviour
in Woking.
1 Hope – supporting young people
during times of challenge through
mentoring, ‘drawing and talking’, small
groups, and transitions support for year
6’s.
2 Think! – we create spaces where
young people can reflect mindfully on
their lives and the world around them
3 Learn – we support RE provision in
schools by providing seasonal events,
lessons and assemblies.
We greatly value the opportunity
through this grant to offer mentoring
sessions to young people free of
charge in schools.
Young people who have engaged with
our mentoring programme say:
‘You can tell them anything and they
always find a way to help.’
‘I like how I can be here unjudged.
I have learnt how to view stuff more
positively.’
We firmly believe our mentoring with
young people improves self-esteem,
increases resilience levels and creates
healthier young people at secondary
school age and beyond.
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