Alongside the regular support and learning services we offer young people we also run projects in different local areas.
Some are year-round long-term projects like our outreach programme in Gillingham, while others are shorter special projects that allow us to try something different.
We aim to learn from our projects and use that knowledge to improve our services in future.
Current projects
Discovery project
We’re working with CAMHS (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services) and the Dorset Mental Health Forum to pilot an 8-week small group project in Sherborne to reduce anxiety.
Rendezvous Yeovil: Learning
Our learning programme can make the difference between young people finding a job or going to college or not, so we’re delighted to be setting up a new learning programme in Yeovil thanks to support from the Somerset Community Foundation.
Meet on the streets: Gillingham
If you are a bit too old for youth club or you can’t get to one of our venues, we have teams of Rendezvous staff who meet young people in the streets or parks in different towns.
Emotionally Connected Sherborne
The Rendezvous is behind a project connecting emotional support for children between the ages of 6 and 19 in Sherborne.
Emotional Wellbeing in School
We provide emotional wellbeing support for students at the Gryphon School. We are normally in school two days a week but during the pandemic are providing support by phone during the Covid-19 lockdowns.
Gillingham film 2021
We will soon be recruiting for young people to take part in our next community film project. We are waiting for Covid-19 restrictions to ease before we start but if you’re interested in gaining experience in film-making then we’d love to hear from you. You can contact us through the form at the bottom of the page.
Past projects
Meet on the streets: Sherborne
Our team went out and about in Sherborne after lockdown ended last summer as part of our larger young person’s project funded by BBC Children in Need.
FILM: Covid and Me…
A lot of words are written about young people but we don’t always hear from young people themselves.