Takeover Day News from 2007
- Me and My Shadows
- Connexions Cumbria
- Seaton Young People
- Children with Disabilities Team
- Specialist Advisory Teaching Service
- Cumbria Constabulary
- Eden Children in Need and Looked After team
- Workforce Learning and Development Team
- Cumbria Outdoors
- Children's Centres and Extended Services Team
- Wotson4u
- Corporate Media Team
Cumbria’s young people launch their own website – wotson4u.com
Cumbria County Council launched a new website www.wotson4u.com (external link) for 13 – 19 year olds (and up to 24 years old if they have learning difficulties) on 11 MILLION Takeover Day, Friday 23 November 2007 in Carlisle Library from 3.30 pm – 6.00 pm.
The Youth Work in Cumbria Partnership and the Children’s Information Service are responsible for the wotson4u website. Its main aim is to provide one place where teenagers can find out about activities that are available in their local area. The idea of the website originally came about because young people said they weren’t taking part in activities simply because they didn’t know about them!
Information will be available on the website about drama clubs, music lessons, sports activities, youth groups, volunteering and lots more. Soon, there’ll even be advice about the best method of transport to use to get to the activities and how much it will cost!
There’s also film, book and music reviews including a local ‘band of the month’ section. Teenagers can submit reviews, local music and photos of themselves taking part in activities around Cumbria. A professional photo shoot was held at SJ Studios in Wigton where young people were invited from around the county to model so that their images could be used for the website design.
The launch on Friday 23rd November gave teenagers the opportunity to take a look at the site and give their feedback about how it could be made even better. Two local bands performed on the day: ‘Shore’ from St Bees and ‘Test the Tone’ from Carlisle.
Free gifts were given to all young people who attended such as t-shirts, pens, keyrings all promoting the wotson4u website. There were also information stands from Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service and Connexions as well as the Carlisle United mascot.
Two performing arts students compered the event and a young photographer from West Cumbria took photographs.
The website was also launched throughout the county on the same day at the following venues:
- Whitehaven HarbourYouth Project: Contact - whyp@hotmail.com
- Youthtastic: Contact - Hayleym@impacthousing.org.uk
- Drop Zone Café: Contact - drop_zone@btconnect.com
- Spirit of Youth: Contact - lynwilliams@youngcumbria.org.uk
- EdenRural Foyer: Contact - sarahb@impacthousing.org.uk
- Connexions Centres: Contact - Helen.wharton@connexionscumbria.co.uk
If you would like more information about the wotson4u website or would like to include an event or activity please contact the Children’s Information Service on 08457125737.