Oct 06 2025

Changing Lives with ReRoute

We wanted to share with you one of the recent successes of the VVU ReRoute Programme, and how the programme is helping young people steer away from a life of crime and positively turn their lives around – and through this reduce violence and improve safety for communities. One young person we have been working […]

Jul 08 2025

The big build at Harlow

Last week the VVU joined the young people at Rainbow Services, Harlow to support them to install a fantastic new sensory garden and interactive space in the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Essex VVU supports the work of Rainbow Services for its carpentry project, which helps young people who have struggled with engagement at school. Youth workers […]

May 11 2025

Lads Need Dads

We are delighted to share with you the successes of one the projects we support with VVU grant funding.  The Colchester based Lads Need Dads mission is to “equip, engage and inspire boys and young men aged 10-18 with absent fathers or limited access to a positive male role model, to enable them to reach […]

May 09 2025

Developing ReRoute

Our ReRoute practitioners, who work with young people aged 17 – 25 (who have been arrested and on bail or released under investigation for offences relating to drugs and violence), have been analysing which approaches work best with the individuals we support and how we can ensure those we no longer need to work with […]

Feb 27 2025

Bar ‘n’ Bus youth mentoring

One of the projects the VVU has supported, and worked closely with, over the last couple of years is Bar ‘n’ Bus. Bar ‘n’ Bus run community-based youth and community work for young people aged 10 to 19, providing support programmes and services such as detached youth work, mentoring and targeted youth work.  Recently the […]

Jan 29 2025

Celebration evening for Colchester Respect students

The VVU joined Essex Boys and Girls Clubs last Thursday, at First Site in Colchester, for the presentation evening of the Respect Project. The Respect Project is an early intervention programme for 13-14 year olds, run by Essex Boys and Girls Clubs and funded by the VVU. It’s designed to help Y9’s who are struggling […]

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