COVID – 19 Response

To help stop the spread of corona virus and for the safety of our staff, young people and the community we have made changes to the delivery style of our service at this time.

Through this difficult and somewhat surreal experience, that we are all going through, we want everyone to know we are here to carry on supporting our members, local community – we are working hard to have an online and digital services.

ACE, (Alternative Creative Education)

Following our decision to reduce face to face delivery of our services, we have put together a learning pack covering the core subjects, Maths, English and Science and a variety of Unit Awards in the Arts, Music and Independent Living Skills.

We will be available via email on

Hello@gorsehillstudios.co.uk

or by phone 01618666356 mobile 07501276571.

We have also started a Facebook group: ACE YP- young people need to be invited to access this group.

Young People

In order to access the group please request Gorse Hill-Studios as a friend. We will then add you to the group and you will receive a notification, you then need to accept. The group lets us all keep in contact with each other.

Louise will contact you via phone call on the days you normally attend Gorse Hill Studios to check in and see that everything is ok.

Sarah will happily discuss any work with you on email or Facebook chat and can even send extra over email for those that want to keep busy!

Groups

As of today, we will be closed and there will be no face to face group work delivery or activities at Gorse Hill Studios or any of our delivery centres. This includes, Davyhulme, Sale West Youth Centres and also Talkshop.

However, it is not all doom and gloom. We are still working, and young people will still be able to access us remotely. What this means is we will be using things such as Skype, Zoom and Facebook to have video meetings and sessions with our groups and individual young people. We already support lots of young people in this way and we are coming up with lots of ideas on how we can keep our online group activities fun and we look forward to hearing any ideas you have. Your youth workers will be in contact with you shortly if they been haven’t already.

Community

All community groups and activities have been cancelled until further notice, this includes dancing, martial arts, and bhangrasize. Please contact those groups directly through their Facebook page, website or telephone number for more information.

Partners

Gorse hill studios staff are available via their individual emails. For general enquiries please contact hello@gorsehillstudios.

We will continue to update as information changes. We wish you all lots of health and happiness.

Welcome to Gorse Hill Studios

Gorse Hill Studios is an independently-run charity, established in 2015 and gaining charitable status in 2017 after previously being part of Trafford MBC for 16 years. We deliver services from a thriving youth arts centre based in the North of Trafford as well as outreach settings with specific contracts with key Local Authorities, Schools and Commissioning Groups, as well as working in partnership with several youth organisations.