Introducing KYM Welcome to the March 2015 edition of our KYM newsletter! Know Your Money – Keep The Change (KYM)

is a Big Lottery funded project based in Middlesbrough led by Erimus Housing. We work with local young

people (aged 16-24) to improve their financial confidence. We do this via a 1-1 approach, helping with their

debts, benefits, budgeting and equipping them with the knowledge to make the best financial choices

around a number of issues.

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Know Your Money - Keep The Change (KYM),

73-75 Corporation Road, Middlesbrough,

TS1 1LY

01642 240336

KYMSTAGRAMBORO

March 2015

Following our 1-1 work and budgeting sessions at Trinity

College, KYM recently hosted one of their Risk and

Resilience events at our building. At this ‘Finance Focus

Day’ students took part in a range of activities designed to

increase their financial confidence and much more.

Many of the students found this extremely useful and we

can see that most of those who attended found that their awareness

of financial issues increased greatly as a result of taking part. Cath

O'Neill, Head of Year 12 at Trinity Catholic College, said “Thank you

for providing our students with such a varied and relevant day.

Everyone had a really good day”.

100 students took part in activities led by:

Barclays

Tandem Finance

The Illegal Money Lending Team

Teesside University

Middlesbrough Environment City

Moneywise Credit Union and Hemlington Linx also

attended and held stands to raise awareness of credit

union services and drug/alcohol issues.

Our Work With Trinity College Continues

Affinity Sutton has supported KYM previously with our Tie

Dye workshops and Clothes Show. We are now working

jointly to hold an Easter Fun Day for their residents. The

Easter Fun Day will take place at the Sutton Centre,

Saltersgill on April 8th between 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm. On

the day there will be free activities and freebies, including:

Easter themed arts and crafts

Face painting

Money management sessions

Free ice cream

Raffle and prize draw

Free food (including hot dogs for the kids!)

Music

KYM stalls

Information on Loan Sharks

To get involved with the Easter Fun Day or for more

information then please contact KYM.

Easter Fun Day in Saltersgill

KYM, working in partnership with Endeavour Housing, is excited to be involved with the ‘The Key_Your

Potential Unlocked’ initiative.

For 20 years ‘The Key _ Your Potential Unlocked’ has been helping young people to unlock their own potential

and be the very best they can be.

Nichola (our Health Advocate) and Khialah (our Engagement Officer) have recently

been trained as facilitators for this project and are

working with our Youth Panel and young people who

benefit from our health services to compile projects to

benefit young people across Middlesbrough.

As part of the The Key project, young people can apply

for funding to run any small project they want. This

can be anything from a family fun day to a soup

kitchen - previous projects have even recorded a full

music album! The group can apply for more funding in

stages, but each new project will take on more

responsibility and the projects will bring more benefit

to the community.

We will give more updates on our projects in the next few months.

‘The Key_Your Potential Unlocked’

KYM is holding an event for partners from Middlesbrough,

Stockton and Hartlepool. The event, ‘Youth Engagement –

What Works?’ will be held on Tuesday 14 April 2015 at our

building, 73-75 Corporation Road, Middlesbrough TS1 1LY

beginning at 1:00pm.

The afternoon will include:

Discussions around why engaging young people is important Background to KYM Middlesbrough and its work to-date with young

people aged 16-24 Plans for developing KYM outreach services in Stockton and

Hartlepool Testimonials from both young people and partner

organisations around positive and negative engagement experiences

Workshops focusing on potential ideas for KYM outreach in Stockton / Hartlepool – how partners could help with this and ideas for development

If you would like to attend this event then please book your place by contacting us ASAP as places will be

limited. If your organisation or a young person you work with would like to deliver a testimonial on the day

around positive/negative engagement experiences then please contact susan.borrow@thirteengroup.co.uk.

KYM Outreach for Stockton and Hartlepool

youth engagement -

what works?

Since our last update we have made great progress in East Middlesbrough and we’re working with the

following agencies to help young people become more financially confident:

Citizens Advice Bureau

Thorntree Hub

Endeavour Housing Association

Local supermarkets

Pertemps

North Ormesby Parish Church

The Trinity Centre

Our Advisers, Pel and Amy (pictured), are now providing 1-1

support to 19 young people in East Middlesbrough. To-date they have helped with:

Benefits, debts and budgeting

Accessing cheap furniture and white goods

Preparing for a 1st home

Opening bank and credit union accounts

Saving money on water, energy and other bills

Amy and Pel are based at Thorntree Hub every Friday from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. Please call

01642 240336 to make an appointment or just drop in to see them on the day.

We also have plans to bring events and KYM training programmes to venues across the East Middlesbrough

area. If you are a young person who wants to get involved or are an organisation who would like to support

our work then please get in touch!

KYM in East Middlesbrough

Many young people involved with KYM are struggling with their English and Maths. This causes issues in their

everyday lives and makes both the application and assessment phases of applying for jobs really difficult. This

can be a huge barrier between them and the job they want.

In partnership with Middlesbrough Community Learning Service, we have begun to hold vital basic skills

assessments in our building. We then aim to offer basic skills sessions to young people based on their needs

identified via the assessments.

We hope that these sessions will help our young people improve their basic skills and unlock their real potential.

For many of our young people this provides a vital piece in the puzzle to help them move towards gaining

employment.

Ten young people took part in the initial English/Maths assessments and we are looking to continue this work in

the future to support more young people.

Basic English and Maths at KYM

Monday & Tuesday - 10:00am - 6:00pm Wednesday & Thursday - 10:00am - 7:00pm Friday 10:00am - 5:00pm

If you’re a young person and would like to get involved with KYM or if you are an organisation

that would like to know more about the work we are doing then please just give us a call on

01642 240336 or email susan.borrow@thirteengroup.co.uk / nathan.james@actes.co.uk.

KYM Opening Times

KYM was delighted to recently host a fun packed financial advice session to 15 young people who are part of

the National Citizen Service programme.

We started the day with ice breakers and the young

people were then divided into groups and given

scenarios to play out. They used paper to dress one

member of their group as individuals from different

professions, then considered how they spend money

on priority and non-priority expenses. Role plays

were then used to showcase their work.

The session covered budgeting, giving the young

people a much better understanding of what a

budget is, how to budget and how often to budget.

There were lots of fun money quizzes and

opportunities to put their new budgeting skills into

practice. The final exercise covered planning an event on a set budget and the young people could choose

anything from holidays to music events!

We plan on running many more group sessions over the next year. Do you know a group of young people who

could benefit from one of our money management sessions? If so, then please contact us to get involved.

National Citizen Service Visit To KYM