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Monmouthshire Young Person’s Scheme provides supported accommodation for homeless young people in the Monmouthshire area. Woodstock House, Abergavenny, was opened in March 2005 and Hill House, Chepstow opened in May 2005.
Both Woodstock House and Hill House support young people between the ages of 16 and 24 years of age, who find themselves homeless through no fault of their own. Young people are encouraged to engage in education, training, employment and volunteering initiatives and receive tenancy support. Staff hold workshops twice weekly, aimed at encouraging clients to experience a wide range of activities, including budgeting and life skills. Regular quiz and Bingo nights are also held and there are plenty of opportunities to explore the arts.
Now in its 6th year, MYPS is celebrating by hosting an open day on Thursday, 30 June between 10:00am and 2:00pm. There will be a range of activities such as:
- raffles
- a car wash
- a guessing game
- cake stall
- art workshop
- T-shirt Designing
- BBQ
- and a tour of the scheme.
For further information please contact:
samantha.rosser-evans@solas-cymru.co.uk
denise.pritchard@solas-cymru.co.uk
Tel: 01873 737952
Solas are working in partnership with Fairlake, Charter, the Welsh Government and Newport City Council, redeveloping the original Clifton Place scheme. Currently the people we support from this scheme are being housed in the Belmont and Newport Hotel, which are busy, crowded and with very little communal space.
Clifton Place is a beautiful, four storey Victorian building, being restored to its former glory and will become Solas’ flagship scheme. There will be 26 newly renovated rooms, each with their own facilities, as well as a plenty of communal space and a garden.
The completion date is estimated at September 2011.
Hayley Clark, Asst Director Business Strategy
Solas are currently working in partnership with Fairlake and Charter, developing three shop units next to our Clarence Place scheme, that have become available for rent. We will be developing these units into a ‘Community Resource Centre’ for the people we support and for individuals from our local community.
This is a great opportunity for Solas residents to play a big part in shaping this project and they have been asked to share their ideas about what skill-based and leisure activities they would like to see facilitated at the properties. To make this happen and to further increase our outcomes – skilling people up, providing learning, training and employment opportunities and also by providing meaningful activities – it’s going to be really important that we all work together to make the service as innovative and engaging as we possibly can.
Although the provision is going to be Newport based, when open, it will be accessible to all Solas residents, regardless of where they live
Clare Rogers, Resident Engagement & Compass Manager
As part of Adult Learners Week, 11 Solas residents and five staff members from across Newport’s accommodation schemes took up the challenge of walking across the top of Newport’s Transporter Bridge, of which there are only seven in the World.
The weather wasn’t fantastic but regardless, the Solas residents braved the 177ft. climb (or 54m) and walked the whole length of this colossal feat of engineering – 645ft. and back again. On top there were lots of screams and many individuals came down far paler than when they went up. In fact two staff members didn’t even make it to the top….
This was a unique experience for the people Solas support, especially as the bridge is not functional right now. We would like to thank Paul Cockeram who arranged for the bridge to be opened especially for Solas!
Clare Rogers, Resident Engagement & Compass Manager