ContinYou - Changing lives through learning

ContinYou aims to open up opportunities for learning that will help people to change their lives, improving the well-being of individuals, families and communities.

News and Press releases

In this section you will find news and press releases from ContinYou. For media enquiries please contact Jenny Clemo, our Customer Relations, Events & Marketing manager. Contact details are listed at the bottom of this page.

Learning Exchange Award winners announced! (16.03.10)

Congratulations to Joseph Leckie Community College, who win £1,000 for their range of high-quality extended services activities. Prizes of £500 were awarded to the East Basildon Extended Services Group, Nowt2Do?, Churchill Community College and Woodland Community Primary School.

ContinYou appoints new Chief Executive (26.02.10)

ContinYou logo Karin Woodley has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of ContinYou. From 2005 to 2009 Karin was Chief Executive of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust and will start her new role in March.

Small steps 4 life launched (08.02.10)

James Cracknell, Olympic gold medallist rower, helps the Food Standards Agency and ContinYou launch Small Steps 4 Life. The programme encourages young people to set themselves challenges, relating to healthy eating, getting physically active and feeling good.

New ContinYou website launched! (01.02.10)

New ContinYou website

The new ContinYou website has been launched. The website has been re-designed so that it is easier to use. Let us know what you think of it.

Community Focused Schools and Services: Improving Learning and Wellbeing for all (23.11.09)

News from ContinYou Cymru's fifth national conference in Llandrindod Wells.

The Learning Exchange (30.10.09)

A virtual community for extended services practitioners has been launched by ContinYou, with funding from the DCSF.

New initiative is music to Minister's ears (16.10.09)

Shaheen Jafargholi at CanSing launch

CânSing is launched by Education Minister Jane Hutt and Britain's Got Talent star Shaheen Jafargholi . The programme, delivered in partnership the charity ContinYou, and funded by the Welsh Assembly, aims to help school children in Wales find their voice and take up singing.

KidTribe and Hoop Hop (2.9.09)

Hoop hop girl ContinYou has partnered with KidTribe, a US based organisation to develop and deliver Hoop Hop - a dynamic physical activity programme that combines hoola hooping and hip hop music.

Eden Project - ContinYou to work in partnership (29.8.09)

From September 2009 for the next three years ContinYou will work as one of the key partners with the Eden Project, along with Cornwall and Middlesbrough local authorities to develop a new and exciting initiative called Seed, Soup & Sarnies.

Oftsed report praises family learning

Children who take part in learning sessions designed to engage their parents as well, show improved communication, confidence and interpersonal skills, according to an Ofsted report. (28.7.09)

Sing Up announces launch of new training programme

Sing Up have announced the launch of a new range of diverse, practical one-day workshops available throughout the next academic year. (20.7.09)

Education Minister to visit award winning school

Education Minister Jane Hutt and Christine Chapman AM will be visiting Craig Yr Hesg Primary School in Pontypridd, to celebrate its' Sunshine Breakfast Club winning first place in the Welsh category of the National Breakfast Club Awards 2009 run by Kellogg’s and learning charity ContinYou. (5.7.09)

ContinYou with UK Youth and the CTC launch Bike Club

ContinYou, UK Youth and and the CTC - the national cyclists' organisation, are setting up bike clubs in cluster groups across England this summer. (19.6.09)

Baronness Kay Andrews appointed English Heritage Chair

We are pleased to announce that ContinYou’s patron Baroness Kay Andrews has been appointed as the new Chair of English Heritage. (16.6.09)

Blue Peter’s Mission Nutrition Appeal Grows On

School grounds across the UK will be transformed into mini-wheat fields this summer, when thousands of children grow their own grains as part of CBBC’s Blue Peter’s Mission Nutrition appeal. (18.6.09)

Britain’s best breakfast clubs are announced

Military community win national award for starting the day in the right way. (1.5.09)

All London-based ContinYou and NRC staff have moved!

Our London office has now relocated from Bethnal Green to Vauxhall. (2.4.09)

ContinYou supports Shine

ContinYou is supporting Shine, the national celebration of talented young people in Britain.
(11.03.09)

Big Lottery announces new funding for family learning

Five million families across the country will benefit from a major new project – The Big Impact – run by the National Family Learning Network through its lead partners the Campaign for Learning, NIACE and ContinYou. (10.3.09)

Blue Peter to hold the world’s biggest Bring & Buy sale

CBBC’s Blue Peter continues to empower children to make a positive difference by hosting the world’s biggest Bring and Buy sale (11.2.09)

Julian Piper awarded OBE for Services to Children and Young People

ContinYou is very proud to report that Julian Piper, our recently retired Director of Extended and Integrated Services, has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for Services to Children and Young People, in the New Year’s Honours List. (21.1.09)

Blue Peter announce ContinYou as one of three charity partners for Christmas Appeal

Blue Peter, the longest running children’s TV show in the world, will mark its 50th anniversary this year by launching its biggest ever appeal. With three charities benefiting from the money raised by viewers, the appeal aims to be the most ambitious to date. (17.10.08)

ContinYou's response to DCSF investment in cooking skills

ContinYou welcomes the additional Government investment in England for developing cooking skills. (11.9.08)

For Media enquiries please contact Jenny Clemo on 024 7658 8446
or e-mail: jenny.clemo@continyou.org.uk

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