Sign up for Summer Challenge 2012
Summer Challenge 2012, Oxfordshire's National Citizen Service scheme for young people ending Year 11
Working hard towards your GCSE s? What about what you’re going to do afterwards, during your summer holidays? Take on the Summer Challenge, and learn new skills, make new friends and support your local community
This summer Oxfordshire County Council is offering over 100 young people across Oxfordshire the opportunity to experience a summer packed with exciting opportunities. The Summer Challenge will include trips, days out, chances to learn new skills and make new friends.
The Summer Challenge is open to 16 year olds in the summer after Year 11. The programme is free, but spaces are limited. Will you be one of the lucky ones?
About the Summer Challenge
The Summer Challenge is a National Citizen Service (NCS) programme, a government initiative.
NCS aims to promote a more cohesive, responsible and engaged society by bringing young people from different backgrounds together to make a difference in their communities. It is a voluntary programme for 16-year-olds which focuses on their personal and social development which includes challenging activities, from away-from-home residential experiences to a self-designed social action project.
All the details
The Summer Challenge will open at the beginning of the summer holidays with activities and team building exercises. Look out for adventure, confidence and team-building sessions and a chance to meet other young people from across the county.
Later in the summer there will be a one-week residential out of the county with lots of adventurous outdoor activities like coasteering, surfing, rock-climbing, and gorge-walking, as well as the opportunity to relax and get to know other young people on the programme.
Back in Oxfordshire, the social action challenge will give something back to your local community while developing new skills such as arts, creative media, music, performance, events organisation and more.
At the end of the summer each team will have another trip away to create an end of programme presentation which will be shown at the joint graduation ceremony at the end of the programme.
And it doesn’t stop there; after the Summer Challenge you will be invited to take part in other activities, including an Opportunities and Activities Fair in October which will focus on your future.
Get ahead with the summer challenge
The Summer Challenge only runs for part of the summer, so you can still fit in a holiday, but it’s important to get registered soon and commit to the dates as spaces are limited, but there will be a waiting list for people keen to take part.
Register an interest
You can sign up to register an interest in the Summer Challenge 2012 on the oxme.info website. After you sign up you will be contacted with more information, dates and details; everything you need for your summer challenge!
The Summer Challenge is running in Oxfordshire's Early Intervention Hubs, and is a Oxfordshire Early Intervention Service project.
