NEWSBOYS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2018 19 GRANTS ST PAUL’S AFRICAN HOUSE IGNITE SOUND – African Youth Engagement Ignite Sound sessions provides weekly workshops designed for African young people aged 11-21 in Shepparton. Young people are able to explore and develop their talents, skills and confidence to tell their own stories with their own voices, through music. The program provides opportunities for 25 young people at each workshop to develop skills in mixing, producing and mastering recordings. The program also connects African young people to their local community in a positive way. facebook.com/stpaulsafricanhouse STREAT Bowen Street Café Newsboys Foundation is proud to support STREAT’s Bowen Street Café at RMIT in the Melbourne CBD with a special 125th Anniversary Grant. STREAT supports and trains young people in the skills necessary to thrive in the hospitality industry. The three-year Newsboys grant has enabled STREAT to establish and run the Bowen Street Café. Newsboys CEO Sandy Shaw said the Bowen Street Café has special significance for the Foundation. “The site has a long, rich history and was one of the many city areas in which Melbourne newsboys sold papers on the streets. Given the role of newsboys in the area, the Bowen Street Café has a newsboys theme. Historical newsboys stories are told through the café – providing an ideal opportunity to bring the newsboys’ story alive in a public space that provides training and employment opportunities for young people.” Sandy Shaw said: “Like the Newsboys Club in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, STREAT is having a profound impact on the lives of hundreds of young people. STREAT also educates the broader public around the complex issues that young people face. This is a great opportunity to further support STREAT and young people while sharing the 125-year- old Melbourne newsboys story.” streat.com.au THE SONG ROOM Tuned in for Life: Youth Engagement and Leadership Program The Song Room conducts music programs in disadvantaged schools and communities to help students to re-engage with education. The Youth Engagement Program is targeting 15 marginalised young people from Bayside College in Williamstown in Year 9 who are at risk of leaving secondary school. The Song Room is delivering an in- school creative arts program consisting of weekly workshops and a creative community project, providing experiences and skills that will help students remain at school. The program aims to increase the students’ confidence and re-engage them with learning. Year-11 students are also participating in the project as mentors to the younger students. songroom.org.au STREAT St Paul’s African House