A huge thanks to FOCUS and Haymarket Centre for a creative day bringing our youth and communities together. #LetsMakeADifference
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Leicestershire Cares #TogetherWeCan Content creators group performing Haymarket Centre supporting FOCUS event today. Love watching the youth flourish and fly.
Thank you #FocusCharity its great to see people coming together to help on The Rowland Hill community allotment. Amazing work completed with 50 volunteers. Loved it! #allotmentlife #Wednesday
We had a brilliant afternoon at our community partners networking meeting last week, cheering up a drizzly day by learning more about each other's projects and celebrating our successes 💬
After18 🧡 Leicestershire Cares #TogetherWeCan Shama Women's Centre Leicester(shire) & Rutland British Red Cross ER. FOCUS Soft Touch Arts Buddhi
With the #GeneralElection coming up, the importance of voting can’t be overstated for our young people.
Last week Leicestival ran their own mock election to find our very own FOCUS PM!
Find out more about Leicestival: focus-charity.co.uk/leicestival/
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Embracing equity was the theme at Tuesday's RotaryClubLeicester afternoon tea event at Leicestershire Foxes 🦊 which our Kirsty Dakin enjoyed attending. There were some inspiring talks from Rosemary Conley and Gina Samuel-Richards. The afternoon supported Steps Conductive Education Centre and FOCUS.
Thanks to everyone who responded to our Leicestival project's survey, during our ‘Why Don’t You’ event.
It’ll be crucial to shaping their up-and-coming youth festival in 2025.
Stay tuned for more news on that!
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June’s Facing the Future session was a success!
Two of our Mental Health First-Aiders led the way, training their peers around roles and responsibilities.
Learn more about Facing the Future: focus-charity.co.uk/facing-the-fut…
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Teamwork and communication has been at the forefront of our recent Inspire sessions, with the young people having to work together if they want to be the best in our games!
Find out more about the Inspire project: focus-charity.co.uk/inspire
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THIS SATURDAY is our ‘Why Don’t You?’ FREE youth event. So *why don’t you* come along!
Find out everything you can get involved with this summer.
There’ll be great music and prizes to be won, so be there!
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We are delighted to support today’s Leicester&Leics FJB annual charity raffle, raising funds for FOCUS by donating a Chocolate Workshop voucher for two at local Cocoa Amore.
Thank you also to Hannah Black at Dodds Solicitors LLP for the work that's gone into organising!
Are you coming to ‘Why Don’t You?’
It’s a FREE youth event broadcasting all the cool things you can get involved in over the summer!
There’ll be great music and prizes to be won too, so be there!
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Summer is approaching, which only means one thing: FOCUS Does Summer is BACK! Once again we’ll be running a FREE two-week Summer Scheme for ages 13-25.
Be sure to sign up using the QR code, or email Project Manager, Emma, at [email protected].
Are you an, up-and-coming music-artist or band in Leicester? Love to perform for the city's public?
We're looking for star musicians like you to take part in our ‘Why Don’t You?’ youth event.
Contact us on 0116 2510369 today to be involved!
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