We saw one of our 24/25 projects come to fruition this week sharing a wonderful late afternoon celebration with the 24/25 cohort of EBFT attendees, parents, siblings, guardians, carers and schools at our base, The Farewell.
Our 24/25 attendees gave tours of our resources to family members, proudly recalling and explaining their experiences. We also saw some quite competitive table tennis and fusball family challenges playing out!
A heartfelt ‘THANKYOU’ to all who came and supported the event.
As a memento and marker of the year together, last year we documented all the activities, experiences and learning in images so the event was to celebrate this, the many personal achievements and present the yearbook to our fantastic young people.
Photography forms part of our programme but this was extended to use the skills, techniques and knowledge gathered to work on creating the yearbook ‘together’.
The together element is very important as not only does this include 100 young people from 9 schools across the borough of Rochdale, but it also includes those young people in Portugal working with our colleagues there.
In our tech savvy world, the book balances the work and activities we do to develop skills using technology and represents something physical, tangible that can be calmly paged through… opposed to scrolled; that said it can be viewed on our web site on the ‘what we do’ page amongst ‘projects’ where our 23/24 project, The EBFT Cookbook can also be found.
As we wrote in our August blog, the doors are always open to our EBFT Alumni and as part of the presentation we spoke of options here and other developments for the future at EBFT.
We are just coming to the end of our first half term with our 25/26 groups and look forward to welcoming back our alumni on camps or other activities supporting their personal goals and talents. To follow our developments and keep up-to date with what we are doing, it would be fantastic if you would support us by :