A NEW personal and social development programme for young people has been launched by the Ceredigion Youth Service.

The Inspire programme is a 12-week programme for young people aged 16-25 which gives them opportunities to access planned weekly youth work provision and professional support, to help them reach their future goals.

Activities include team building workshops, vocational taster courses at Ceredigion Training and Dysgu Bro, creativity workshop with Ceredigion Museum, a sea voyage experience and much more.

The young people will work towards achieving an Agored Cymru Level 1 Award in Personal and Social Education.

They will have the opportunity to progress towards the Level 1 Certificate, which is an equivalent GCSE D-G grade.

Under the programme, four young people recently participated in a sea voyage experience with Challenge Wales, a Cardiff-based charity.

The charity gives young people and adults funded opportunities to experience new ways of learning and to develop their interpersonal skills.

The four young people involved helped navigate the 60ft schooner from Pwllheli to Neyland over a two-day period.

They developed their personal and social skills by working as part of a team and experience the work needed to sail at sea.

The Inspire programme also gives young people involved an opportunity to plan their own community project.

The youth service was successful in attaining a youth-led grant of £500 from CAVO, which will now be used to support the young people with project planning and delivery.

The young people will work together for a six-week period to identify a community need and use the funding to plan an event to benefit that community.

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