October 2006

Youth groups
This month, both of the B.C.A groups (aged 13-19 and 8-12) came to a stand still, due to it being the month of Ramadan. Hopefully everything will continue as normal from next month. With the Hainworth Wood 13-19 year olds group we have been doing planning on the sessions up to Christmas, with the suggestions coming from the youngsters.

Over 50's
The Hainworth Wood Over 50's group is still running very successfully. We have between 10-15 regular attendees every week. The group really enjoys meeting up every week, when they have a great time. They really enjoy the activities available for them, which includes a quiz, armchair exercise and other activities.

Neighbourhood Action Planning
This month all the bids for the Participatory Budgeting have gone in. The long process of consultation has come to an end. The residents will be deciding how the money will spent and what project it will be spent on, during a "Decision day" next month, when local residents will give the go ahead on the projects that they are in favour of. We have had about 60 applications put forward between the seven areas and a total of £130,000 to share on small projects between seven different areas in Keighley.

Others
I have continued to attend the table tennis classes at Hainworth Wood. It had a bit of a slow start but now it is slowly picking up in numbers. The classes are becoming popular but mainly with the younger age group.

Training this month
Completion of 'Introduction to Youth and Community Work'