The Connections Bus Project is a charity (No. 1168343) providing youth work services across Cambridgeshire:
- two bespoke double-decker youth buses
- building based youth clubs
- pop-up youth club (all equipment brought to your building in van)
- open-access, universal services
- training courses for young people: babysitting, youth leader and Generation Game
- support for smaller community youth projects
- youth consultations for Parish Councils, community groups and others
Our vision is to support young people to fulfil their potential through the provision of free recreational, educational and personal development opportunities.
Our buses and youth clubs have a wide selection of resources including internet linked PCs, games consoles, video/DVD, karaoke, sports equipment, craft activities, quizzes, discussion topics and a tuck shop. Young people can also take away leaflets on many issues that affect them such as bullying, drug and alcohol awareness, smoking, eating disorders, homelessness and health.
Some of the young people are invited to take on volunteer roles helping with tasks and where appropriate providing a link between the young people and the Parish Council.
Our services are staffed by appropriately trained youth workers who take time to get to know the young people and actively engage them in activities and discussions. We are keen to involve the local community and if volunteers are available, we will help to provide suitable training.
For many, our services are the only youth facility that they attend or is available to them in their village.
The Aims of the Project (taken from our Constitution)
To act as a resource for young people up to the age of 19 living in Cambridgeshire and the surrounding areas by providing advice and assistance and organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities as a means of:
- advancing in life and helping young people by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals;
- advancing education;
- providing recreational and leisure time activity in the interests of social welfare for people living in the area of benefit who have need by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances with a view to improving the conditions of life for such persons.
For more about the history of the project please follow this link to our History Page.