Venus Wants To Hear What You Think Of Their Project

One of the Venus projects, Our Place, Sefton Care Leavers Centre, is being evaluated as they are coming to the end of their funding.

Sefton Care Leavers’ Centre is managed by Venus and has been funded through Big Lottery. It provides support in partnership with Sefton MBC Corporate Parenting Team and Sefton CVS to young people in care and care leavers to make the transition to independence.

The project is based in Waterloo and is the hub of a range of services. They provide independence-building activities such as parenting skills for young care leavers who are parents or pregnant, tenancy support and pre-tenancy training, confidence building and counselling. They also provide outreach support, advocacy, as well as a welcoming, inclusive place to be. And they put on lots of fun activities too, such as movie nights, cookery, music sessions and the odd trip out to do things like roller-skating and rock climbing!

They also provide opportunities to develop partnership working with agencies and organisations to better support young people in care and care leavers in their transition to independence. Personal Advisors from Sefton Council can also be accessed in the Centre, making it easier for young people to get the services they need. In addition, there are opportunities for young people to choose to have their meetings and/or reviews held at the Centre if they wish.

If you have accessed Our Place they would be grateful if you would take five minutes to complete their survey. This will help them to review the progress they have made and plan for future funding bids. Venus want all of their projects to be the best they can be, so your responses will help to do this and your input will be invaluable!

You can complete the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/D7NFPVC