Bytes Youth Hub Glengormley

check out this opportunity at our Bytes Ballyclare Hub

🧱✨ LEGO Club is now open for sign-ups! ✨🧱

Does your young person love LEGO, creativity, gaming, storytelling or building things with others?

Our LEGO Club is a fun, supportive and inclusive space where young people can build confidence, communication skills and friendships through collaborative LEGO activities, stop-motion, creative challenges and teamwork! 🎬🚀

Young people work together in different roles such as:
🔹 Helper
🔹 Builder
🔹 Engineer
🔹 Creator

As they progress through the club, they can move through different LEGO pathways and levels while developing social skills, active participation, teamwork and problem-solving skills.

Sessions include:
🎨 Creative LEGO builds
🎥 Stop-motion animation
🧠 Problem solving & teamwork
💬 Communication & social interaction
🌟 Fun, friendship and creativity

Our club also promotes positive group values through our “Rules of Cool,” helping young people learn respect, kindness, teamwork and confidence in a relaxed environment.

📍 Bytes Ballyclare
📅 Wednesdays 3.30-5pm
👥 Ages: 10-17
📲 https://forms.office.com/e/uMeh7uLcCv

Spaces are limited, so click the link or scan the QR code to register interest!

This week at Northern Regional College, young people explored stop motion animation as part of our Digital Upskilling Programme. Using the photography skills they have developed throughout the programme, the group learned how to plan, capture, and edit creative stop motion scenes through sequencing images and visual storytelling their journeys on the programme. 📸🎬
It was fantastic to see participants build confidence in both photography and digital editing while working creatively as a team and bringing their ideas to life through animation. 🌟

A valuable update, hosted by The Bytes Project in Glengormley, last night on the 'Voices for Impact Project' - seeking to ensure that the voices and views of young people are heard.
Grateful for the invite, the chance to catch up again and also, of course, to Chris Quinn NICCY for his selfie 🤳 skills!

April is PMDD Awareness Month 💛
Did you know…

🧠 Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) is a severe form of PMS that can seriously impact mental health, emotions, and daily life

📊 Around 1 in 20 women who menstruate are thought to experience PMDD

⏳ Symptoms usually appear in the luteal phase (the 1–2 weeks before a period) and ease once the period starts

⚠️ PMDD can include:
Intense mood swings
Anxiety or panic
Low mood or hopelessness
Irritability or anger
Extreme fatigue
Difficulty concentrating

For some, it can feel overwhelming, but you’re not alone, and support is available.
💬 If this sounds like you, it’s okay to reach out:
Speak to your GP
Talk to a trusted youth worker or staff member at Bytes

Reach out to:
(Call 0800 1111 or online chat)
(Call 0808 808 8000)
(Text, call or webchat for under 25s)

✨ Tracking your cycle and how you feel can really help you understand your body and get the right support.
💛 You deserve to feel understood, supported, and safe every day of the month.

🌍✨ Shared Agenda for Peace Residential ✨🌍

What an incredible weekend spent with an amazing group of young people at our Shared Agenda for Peace residential! 💛

Throughout the residential, young people took part in a range of creative and outdoor activities designed to build confidence, connection, and understanding. One of the highlights was using the Stop Motion Studio app alongside LEGO to create their very own short films titled “Peace by Piece”. 🎬🧱 The creativity, teamwork, and storytelling that came out of this was just amazing to see!

We also got outdoors and made the most of the fresh air with a variety of activities, followed by a lovely trip to Newcastle 🌊 – giving everyone the chance to relax, explore, and spend time together outside of their usual environments.

Most importantly, this residential was about bringing young people together from different communities. New friendships were formed, barriers were broken down, and there was so much respect, laughter, and support shared across the group. 🤝

It’s always inspiring to see young people step outside their comfort zones, try something new, and realise how much they have in common with each other.

So proud of every single young person who took part 💫

Our Glengormley Fresh Start through Sport programme group away to Kingspan to see Ulster Rugby play tonight. A fantastic opportunity for our young people to experience a new sporting event

A brilliant night for Emmet’s CyberQuest group in Glengormley, who after weeks of hard work and dedication have achieved their ICDL qualification. It’s a great achievement and shows the effort and teamwork they’ve put in throughout the journey, and now they’re already looking ahead to taking on further qualifications and building on what they’ve started. Well done to everyone involved!