CREATIVE RAPP

• Info for parents, carers and professionals
  
• WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT ? (A young persons guide)
  
• WHAT WE HAVE DONE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CREATIVE RAPP
Info for parents, carers and professionals:

As a team of workers responding to children and young people, who often present as difficult to engage and ‘hard to reach’; the RAPP approach has tried to invest time and energy in being creative.

We believe that it is always about listening to young people in terms of what they want or need and then trying to respond to this in an imaginative way. As a project we aim to provide a menu of support or projects that young people then have the choice to take part in and become involved with.

Quite often when these projects start and then grow, the sky’s the limit and as one door opens…another door opens…!!

To begin with RAPP looked at developing a drama group for young people in partnership with Arts in Health that was initially targeted at looked after children. This group has grown beyond all expectations using music and the Arts as the key offer for young people in developing Freedom Road Creative Arts as a charity in its own right.

www.freedomroadcreativearts.com

There are a number of other examples of RAPP’s creative approaches for example through the Hull Mentoring Project; where young people told RAPP that they would rather speak to people who in their view had been there and done it; in terms of challenging their attitudes towards crime.

www.hullmentoringproject.co.uk

Other examples are the TOO MAD project, the work of the BOB and BOOST group; RAPP’s training courses and more recently the Fighting Fit project; where the aim is to use the medium of boxing training to improve young people’s attitudes towards keeping fit and eating more healthily.

‘Always involve young people in projects, as they have yet learnt what is impossible’

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WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT ?
A young persons guide:

The Freedom Road Creative Arts project uses drama, Dance, and Song writing as a way of giving children and young people in need or in care in the city a chance to have fun, make new friends, learn new skills and become more confident about themselves.
How does the project help us in our lives?
"Doing drama and dance has helped me make more friends at school because I feel better about myself and I get involved a lot more. It also gives me somewhere to express myself too."

For further information on Freedom Road and the creative side of RAPP see the website: www.freedomroadcreativearts.com
or contact:
Ian Bolton: ian.bolton@hullcc.gov.uk Tel. 07921-800617
or Iain Thompson (Northern Drama and Education): Tel.0780-3908782

What is P2S? "Some of us also work with RAPP, Hull Children’s Services and Hull Children's Fund on a panel called P2S. This is a group of young people who meet once meet a month to make decisions on applications from young people, requesting money and support for their hobbies and stuff like that".

For further information on Platform To Success please contact Lisa Billany on 01482-225855
This project ended in April 2011

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WHAT WE HAVE DONE

Watch the "Super Park Rangers" Video
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Click the arrow to listen to: "Song for Wilberforce"

Click the arrow to listen to: "SILVER SKY "

Click the arrow to listen to: "WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET"

The idea for these songs arose from my efforts to compose some original prayers for an Interfaith Prayerbook for the Wilberforce 2007 celebrations. As I was working on this particular piece it became evident that this was not a prayer to be recited or a meditation to be read, or a song to be sung.

I was able to interest Ian Bolton and the RAPP group in setting the words I had to music, and with the help of lain Thompson of NDE, they took what would have been a decent little ditty and turned it into something sublime. The result is this CD, so don’t just read about it: LISTEN TO IT!
- Rev. Tom McCready, Hull Unitarian Church

This project was supported by The Leonard Chamberlain Trust, Hull Unitarian Church. R I P F.

RAPP offers a children’s rights and advocacy service responding to children and young people in need or at risk, aged 9 to 21 and living in the Hull area.The RAPP team often use the creative arts to support young people in building their confidence and provide a positive and safe way in which to express their feelings. With funding from Positive Activities For Young People. Freedom Road were given the opportunity to record their songs at Fairview Studios.

The two accompanying tracks on this CD are further evidence of the unique creative and musical talents of “Freedom Road”: Cindy, Ben, Sami, Sarah, Becky. Ellie, Jess, Shaunna, Chiq, Michelle and Sophie.

With thanks to Tom McCready, Sarah Naughton, Dawn Binns Kay Bolton, Lisa Chapman.The Warren, Jeff Willis. Hull Youth Service, Ruth Drake, Geoff Wilson, Dan Foster, Craig Clark (the man) for the inspiration, all the parents, carers and people who have supported the project, and any organisation who has contributed to the production of the CD.

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