Jul 09 2025

Happy birthday North Avenue

Here at the VVU we love a celebration, particularly one which marks such a fantastic achievement as a 25th anniversary. On 1 July, North Avenue Youth Centre in Chelmsford celebrated 25years of supporting the local community and we were delighted to attend the celebrations. As proud funders of North Avenue Youth Centre, it was a […]

Dec 02 2024

YMCA Chelmsford

The VVU provided YMCA Essex (Chelmsford) with some funding to develop a new, free to attend Friday night youth club for young people in Chelmsford’s city centre. The club began in June 2024, providing fun activities, workshops and a safe place with qualified youth workers for young people aged 11 to 18 to attend in […]

Aug 27 2024

Celebrating Sanctus

It is always great to look back at the end of a grant funded period and see how the organisations successful in applying for a VVU community grant benefited from the funding. The final end of year reports show just how much an impact even the smallest amount of funding can have, improving lives and […]

Sep 07 2023

Being inspired at Kids Inspire

The VVU team recently dropped in on a Kids Inspire supporter day to hear an update on the fantastic work the charity does. We support Kids Inspire through our Violence & Vulnerability secondary prevention work stream by funding their whole-family therapeutic support programme ‘Healing Connections’. The funding enables Kids Inspire to deliver a targeted countywide […]

Jul 11 2022

Graffiti project brightens up Chelmsford (June 2022)

Young people have been hard at work brightening up two locations in Chelmsford with new artwork and graffiti. Central Park underpass and Chelmer Valley nature reserve (under the bridge on the bunny walks) have been transformed by the creative skills of local young people, those who use the Central Park skate park, and a group […]

Jul 11 2022

Our new project: ReRoute (June 2022)

We are working on a new project called ReRoute.  This project works with young people who have been arrested on possession of carrying a knife but who are waiting to be charged to court. There can be a considerable amount of time between arrest and a court date; by working in this time period to […]

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