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Hello and welcome to the fourth edition of the BevenTEEN Bulletin, which aims to give young people in Bevendean the chance to speak their mind

about absolutely anything!

In this edition, we look at the new young women’s recycled fashion project, Riziki shares her 3 favourite places in the area, and there are Easter puz-

zles, fun chocolate tips, jokes and much more.

Happy Easter to you all!

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Riziki’s 3 top

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A note from our

Youth Worker

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Safe n Sorted’s

new service

3

Derren Brown &

Lemar reviews

4

Easter Puzzle &

Jokes

5

Young Women’s

Recycled Fashion

Project

6

Chocoholic’s

Guide to Easter

7

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My Top 3 Bevendean Hotspots, by Riziki Millanzi

1. Farmgreen Park

It is the coolest local place to hang out, especially in the summer. Farmgreen Park is often flocked by Bevendean Primary students between 3-4pm.

2. B.E.C.C.A

Bevendean’s fantastic youth club and playgroup. Senior Club is the perfect place to chill on a Friday night after a long week at school.

3. Leybourne Parade

Magazines, Sweets, Chips, Noodles, Coffee and Sausages!

It is all just a five minute walk away!

What are your favourite places in Bevendean?

Are there parts of it you really hate? Email us your views!

Hello again,

Time again for my little round up of things that have been going on since BevenTEEN Bulletin’s last edition. But first, I should recap on what it is that I do.

My role is to get groups of young people from Bevendean together and support them to make the area better. Mostly this involves groups that want to put on activi-ties being helped to get funding and organising things. I try to make it so that people can do this for themselves so over time they don’t actually need me and I can go off and support another group. I work 16 hours a week here for a charity called The Trust for Devel-oping Communities.

Currently I help a group called the ‘Bevendean Activities Group’ to meet once a month to organise the Summer Holiday Activities Programme that happens each year. They have applied for nearly £5,000 to make this year’s

even bigger and better than last year, so fingers crossed they get the money!

I’ve been working with the Coun-cil’s Youth Service to put on a ‘Young Women’s Recycled Fash-ion Project’ that started in Sep-tember and will finish in May where the work that is produced will go on display in the citywide ‘Youth Arts Festival’, at a shop in Brighton called ‘Red Mutha’ on Trafalgar Street, and during the ‘Open House’ arts festival events at the Church on Norwich Drive.

Hopefully the young women in-volved will want to carry on doing something after this project so watch this space…

I have also helped support the group that creates this Beven-TEEN bulletin. The group have received nearly £3,000 to pro-duce the newsletter for a year. The group are still welcoming new members so if you think you would want to improve your CV by getting some journalistic ex-perience (that could be reviewing films, writing about local issues or even designing the layout etc) then get in touch.

If you want to find out more, give me a call on 01273 603698 or 07772269761 or email me on adammuirhead@trustdevcom.org.uk and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

Adam

You may remember that we featured Safe n Sorted in our last newsletter, to ex-plain what services they have to offer young people in our area.

Since then, they have cre-ated a profile on Facebook, so that you can get advice and support from them about anything from hous-ing, sexual health to school and self-harm straight to your inbox!

They have created a profile rather than a group, so that you can send them private messages and they

can reply without everyone else in the group seeing it. This way you can ask any-thing you like and no one else can read it.

To find them, type ‘safe n sorted’ in the search box on Facebook and they should be at the very top of the results list, and then add them as a friend.

To find out about the services they offer at the Safe n Sorted centre, email safeandsorted@hoveymca.org.uk, call 01273 645900 or visit them at 48 Barcombe Road, Moulsecoomb Monday-Friday, between 1-6pm.

An update from Adam, Bevendean’s Youth Worker...

Safe and Sorted’s new service on Facebook, by Claire Rowe

Riziki creating recycled fashion

Lemar– The Hits Review, by Claire Rowe

Since he came third on BBC’s Fame Academy in 2002, Lemar has gone on to be the most successful of his fellow academy peers, clocking up four successful albums to date.

At 31, he has now released The Hits– a collection of his singles so far, along with four new tracks, including a re-recording of his track What About Love? from his first al-bum, Dedicated, featuring the very popular JLS, and his new single, The Way Love Goes.

The R&B/Soul tracks are in the order of when they were released over the last 7 years, with crackers like 50/50, If There’s Any Justice, Time To Grow and Lullaby- the song which he made popular on Fame Academy.

New track, You Don’t Love Me, features a sample from The Supreme’s You Keep Me Hanging On, giving it a great 1960s motown feel.

Whilst the album is packed with great hits, oddly enough, it doesn’t include Don’t Give It Up and Tick Tock, which were also popular singles he had released more recently. Despite this, it’s an album I would highly recommend for when you want to smile, cry and relax.

The album was released a week later than originally planned on March 8th, due to a print error, with covers saying only ‘The’.

5/5

Darren Brown– Enigma Review, by Laura Golding

Derren Brown has rose to fame over the last few years as an illusionist, mind-reader, magician and mentalist, and is currently touring with his latest show, Enigma. At the end of the show, Derren asked for people not to give away any of the contents of the show, as many people will be seeing it. I don’t want to spoil it for future viewers, but I do want to express how great the show is. On Monday 8th March, I went to Eastbourne Congress Theatre to watch the show. I loved every moment of it! The breathtaking show is full of surprises and humour, but you have to be con-stantly vigilant because- as with any of his shows- you never know what something can lead to. As always, the atmosphere in the audience is great, and every trick is amazing, but you can never prepare yourself for the shocks they make. Derren’s personality shone through throughout the show, and it truly was an outstanding show.

5/5

Easter Games Page

C H S O C C O J L D A T E B U

N S N P R I E E S E A N D Y G

S G G E E T A L O C O H C N N

P G E E A E P L S O A R O N I

E E T H M E P Y M R O S L U N

T D H P E U R B T A C T O B R

H E A A G S E E S T D N R R O

E L N A G S K A T E E U E E M

R I D B S S A N S D I H D T R

W O L L A M H S R A M G E S E

O B E B T R E A T S K G G A T

V D E L U F R O L O C E G E S

E R T T F A K E G R A S S R A

N A E A T S G G E R E T S A E

C H O C O L A T E B U N N Y S

BASKET EGG HUNT

CHOCOLATE BUNNY EGGIES

CHOCOLATE EGGS FAKE GRASS

COLORED EGGS HANDLE

COLORFUL HARD BOILED EGGS

CREAM EGGS JELLY BEANS

DECORATED MARSHMALLOW

EASTER BUNNY PEEPS

EASTER EGGS TREATS

EASTER MORNING WOVEN

EASTER WORD LIST

EASTER WORDSEARCH

JOKES

What does a bunny say on January 1st?

Hoppy New Year.

What do you call a row of 10 bunnies walking

backwards?

A receding hare line.

Georgina put her interviewing skills to the test recently, at the Young Women’s Recycled

Fashion Project...

Polly Brooks works for The Trust for Developing Communities as a Youth Activities Worker. She’s been working for the Trust since November, and also works for Brighton Council in Whitehawk. Polly enjoys her job, because she meets different types of people, and she loves working with kids and all of their different ideas.

Polly got involved in the Young Women’s Recycled Fashion Pro-ject that’s been running in Beven-dean recently, as it sounded like a fun project to try. She’s already done a fashion course at Wor-

thing’s Northbrook College, which is a great help to the group. Dur-ing the project, Polly has picked up a few useful tips, including how to use a sewing machine, which she now gets lots of satis-faction from.

Polly plans to continue helping at the project, and also wants to make a young women’s group. This would only be if young peo-ple in Bevendean decide they want a group like this, and they would then set it up.

This is the first fashion show to be held, and the planning has been very successful, with 15 people joining in, but we would love more people to get involved. We plan to put the final results of the clothes,

photos and posters on display in an open house, and in the recy-cled fashion clothing shop, Red Motha, on Trafalgar Street.

We’ve finished our designs and just need to add the finishing touches, before we have the fash-ion show and a presentation about our handmade designs.

I’m looking forward to the show, and I hope it will attract more peo-ple to join the group.

We meet Tuesdays, 6pm at Bevendean Primary School. For more details, contact Adam on 01273 603698 / 07772269761 or email

adammuirhead@trustdevcom.org.uk

The Young Women’s Recycled Fashion Group, by Georgina Grant-Mills

A Chocoholic’s Guide to Easter, by Laura Golding

A Chocoholic’s Guide to Easter:

If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.

Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.

The problem: How to get two pounds of choco-late home from the supermarket in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the car park.

Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite and you'll eat less.

A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Isn't that handy?

If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you?

If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.

Money talks. Chocolate sings. Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger. Why is there no such organization as Chocoholics Anonymous?

-Because no one wants to quit. Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at

least you'll get one thing done. Chocolate is a health food. Chocolate is derived from cacao beans.

Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived either from sugar beets or cane, both vegetables. And, of course, the milk/cream is dairy. So eat more chocolate to meet the dietary requirements for daily vegetable and

dairy intake.

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