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A principle focus for Garon Park Community Interest Company is Youth and our Mission is to Improve the Mental and Physical Health of local Youth and our emphasis is Conservation.
Garon Park CIC has developed a Youth Strategy – YouthHOPE – (Click here to view the Executive Summary) detailing how we intend to bring young people’s voices to the fore at Garon Park and the measures described below form part of our whole community approach to Youth.
During the ‘Covid Lockdown’ years, a generation of Youth has had to deal with isolation, solitude and loneliness as never before. Social media has had a major impact on young lives and complicated an already difficult position with the resultant anxiety, loss of confidence and many more complications, evidenced by the growing numbers of school refusers and the growing numbers of neurodivergent diagnoses which means a generation are less educated and less well socialised than would normally be the case.
St Lukes Ward where Garon Park is situated and several of the connected central Southend Wards, feature in the top 5% of most deprived areas in the UK and the Covid effect has been heightened by those deprivations faced by the immigrant population, the multigenerational unemployed, the poorly educated and untrained etc.
Garon Park CIC and its partner organisations have responded to these deprivations by providing a range of provisions in our beautiful Greenspace, designed to improve the physical and mental health and wellbeing of our Youth.
Our main provisions and the bodies who make referrals can be viewed here.
We have plans to dramatically increase these provisions as the problems locally are varied and on a large scale and our measures can be delivered at scale and economically.
Our youth plan is driven by a strategic initiative called YouthHOPE, which is rooted in thorough research and strong community engagement. More details can be found in our strategy document.
We began with a comprehensive baseline survey focused on youth-related issues in our area. The findings revealed key gaps and opportunities that shaped our strategy. In response, we launched Garon Park Youth in 2022—a vibrant, weekly youth club that quickly became a hub for local young people. Every Wednesday, the club attracts 60-70 participants and has grown to a membership of over 450 young people.
Our facility is designed to be fully accessible, welcoming all young people, including those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) challenges. We’ve worked hard to ensure our programmes cater to both neurodiverse and neurotypical children, providing the support they need to thrive.
We’ve also established partnerships with specialised services to help young people overcome challenges such as school avoidance and anxiety, while also offering essential life skills. These collaborations ensure every young person has access to the resources necessary for their well-being.
Our Youth Lead, Anna Sims, is delivering this important initiative. We are actively fundraising, building capacity, and expanding our reach. Stay tuned for updates on how we’re continuing to roll out this strategy.
A principle focus for Garon Park Community Interest Company is Youth and our Mission is to Improve the Mental and Physical Health of local Youth and our emphasis is Conservation.
Garon Park CIC has developed a Youth Strategy – YouthHOPE – (Click here to view the Executive Summary) detailing how we intend to bring young people’s voices to the fore at Garon Park and the measures described below form part of our whole community approach to Youth.
During the ‘Covid Lockdown’ years, a generation of Youth has had to deal with isolation, solitude and loneliness as never before. Social media has had a major impact on young lives and complicated an already difficult position with the resultant anxiety, loss of confidence and many more complications, evidenced by the growing numbers of school refusers and the growing numbers of neurodivergent diagnoses which means a generation are less educated and less well socialised than would normally be the case.
St Lukes Ward where Garon Park is situated and several of the connected central Southend Wards, feature in the top 5% of most deprived areas in the UK and the Covid effect has been heightened by those deprivations faced by the immigrant population, the multigenerational unemployed, the poorly educated and untrained etc.
Garon Park CIC and its partner organisations have responded to these deprivations by providing a range of provisions in our beautiful Greenspace, designed to improve the physical and mental health and wellbeing of our Youth.
Our main provisions and the bodies who make referrals can be viewed here.
We have plans to dramatically increase these provisions as the problems locally are varied and on a large scale and our measures can be delivered at scale and economically.
Our youth plan is driven by a strategic initiative called YouthHOPE, which is rooted in thorough research and strong community engagement. More details can be found in our strategy document.
We began with a comprehensive baseline survey focused on youth-related issues in our area. The findings revealed key gaps and opportunities that shaped our strategy. In response, we launched Garon Park Youth in 2022—a vibrant, weekly youth club that quickly became a hub for local young people. Every Wednesday, the club attracts 60-70 participants and has grown to a membership of over 450 young people.
Our facility is designed to be fully accessible, welcoming all young people, including those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) challenges. We’ve worked hard to ensure our programmes cater to both neurodiverse and neurotypical children, providing the support they need to thrive.
We’ve also established partnerships with specialised services to help young people overcome challenges such as school avoidance and anxiety, while also offering essential life skills. These collaborations ensure every young person has access to the resources necessary for their well-being.
Our Youth Lead, Anna Sims, is delivering this important initiative. We are actively fundraising, building capacity, and expanding our reach. Stay tuned for updates on how we’re continuing to roll out this strategy.
Entrepreneur / Philanthropist
Clive was born in St Lukes Ward and has lived in Southend all of his life. Clive attended Southend High for Boys and Westminster College and is qualified in business management and is Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality FIH. Clive has an entrepreneurial background and started his own hospitality company in 1984, which he sold in 2004.
In 2007 Clive started Livingstone Tanzania Trust a poverty alleviation charity in Tanzania which concentrates on children and education and to date have completely built / refurbished 9 schools and bought feeding, hygiene and menstrual programmes to the whole district – 35 schools – over 22,500 primary students a day. (www.livingstonetanzaniatrust.com).
In 2013 Clive had the idea to start a community health and wellbeing programme at Garon Park and with the help of Philip Tolhurst of Norman Garon Trust the first steps were taken in 2014
Clive is the day-to-day site Director
Christine Wyatt, a Trustee of Wellbeing at Garon Park is a business women with 30+ years corporate experience of establishing, leading and operating global and local businesses. Most recently she created and developed a successful arts and crafts teaching business in Southend on Sea, helping hundreds of people learn, develop and enjoy new artistic skills. She joined Wellbeing at Garon Park, focused on the ‘arts and crafts’ brief as we see that as a core part of the overall set of facilities and offerings we are building to support community wellbeing.
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