Bringing youth and community together
Our new building is becoming real. Here are the plans for the new build. Keep checking our socials for updates.
While we are closed we will be visiting communities where our young people live and keeping in touch with them. Cook offs, cinema nights and games are all in the pipeline.
If you live in a town or village that is part of the rural Clydesdale Community get in touch as we may be coming to you.
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We are delighted to have two of our staff trained as Internal Verifiers for the Scottish Qualifications Authority. This will help our young people enormously as they prepare for life beyond secondary education.
These sessions offer a fantastic chance to meet new friends and have fun together before going up to high school.
This year we are working with Womankind who will be generously providing food for the young people. So get your form now!
It’s that time of year where we welcome young people in during study leave. We will be open 10-3.30 Monday to Thursday. come along between exams or when you are waiting for a bus.
Come along and get a hot drink, something to eat and relax.
We are working with Clydesdale Foodbank and the Gillespie Centre to collect items for the foodbank at Christmas
Did you know that Clydesdale Foodbank donates 560 cans of beans a week to families
Come in and leave an item and we will pass it onto the food bank. We will hand items over on the 8th of December
Many thanks
Did you know that every year nearly 40 million pumpkins are bought in the UK, but only 22 million are actually eaten – the rest are thrown away after they’ve been carved. Now that’s a scarey thought!
This year we’ve teamed up with Hubbub to invite everyone in Biggar to share their pumpkin-based dishes at our community Pumpkin Feast. Just pop down to the Youth Project between 5 pm and 7:30 for an evening of fun and food! Fancy dress is optional, as is bringing your own pumpkin-based dish. There are plenty of tasty ideas on how to #EatYourPumpkin on the Hubbub website, so why not try a few out!
Traditionalists who prefer tumshies are welcome to bring neep-based dishes along instead!
The design team from Fraser/Livingstone Architects recently visited BYP to get young people’s views on what they would like the building to be like.
The team worked with a group of High Graphics students to gather some design ideas. Space to relax and hang out with friends was a key ask, along with space to eat together. Pupils are keen on having more natural lighting, and homely neutral colours with natural materials to give a cosy feel.
Young people who use BYP were also asked for their views.
The Fraser/Livingstone team will feed the ideas into their designs for the building and will keep in touch with the school pupils during the design phase.
Big thanks to Lothian Relics Charity Digs for donating funds that that they raised during a metal detecting event in the Biggar area. This is really appreciated and will help us to support young people at BYP.
The group organise weekly metal detecting events across Scotland raise funds for charity.
We are very excited to have received funding from South Lanarkshire’s Place Based Investment Fund for feasibility and design work for renovations on the building.
The renovations will aim make the Old Auction Ring more modern and welcoming, as well as improving energy efficiency.
After a competitive tendering process, Fraser/Livingstone Architects have been appointed to lead the design work. They recently ran a workshop with high school pupils to obtain their views on what they do and don’t like about the building, and will be using this draw up some design options.
Watch this space for more news on this project!