DangerPoint is delighted to have received funding from The Neumark Foundation for a second year, following a successful 2023. With a wonderful 50% increase in funding from Neumark for 2024/25 our target with this funding is to enable visits from 1500 children and young people from North Wales schools.
As a charity, this funding is crucial in helping us to continue educating children and young people about everyday hazards and safety issues in varying scenarios- from the home to the beach, from transport to the internet and much more!
So far, this funding has supported us in educating over 1000 children and young people from counties across North Wales. During their visit, pupils take part in an interactive quiz prior to taking the centre tour with our fantastic Rangers. They then take the quiz again post-tour so we can establish how much they have learnt. The average knowledge increase to date, based on school visits subsidised by this funding alone is 211%!
‘Very effectively organised and extremely nice staff. The standard of the exhibitions is great. We wouldn’t have been able to come without the funding – thank you.’ School Feedback
As well as this, The Neumark Foundation are generously funding a collaborative project between DangerPoint and Youth Shedz Cymru. Aptly named ‘Building Empathy: Navigating Social Challenges,’ this project sees a group of ‘Shedderz’ utilising DangerPoint as inspiration and as a location for a unique Virtual Reality film, written by and starring the young people. This collaboration is now well underway, and we have been extremely impressed with the young people’s enthusiasm, ideas, and progress so far.
Looking ahead, we are thrilled to have almost two-hundred pupils already booked to visit the centre in 2024 aided by The Neumark Foundation funding. We aim to build on this over the coming weeks and months and will continue to utilise this funding as best we can to enable as many children and young people as possible to come through our doors and gain imperative safety knowledge- whilst having lots of fun of course!
If you would like to find out more about DangerPoint, please visit our website at https://dangerpoint.org.uk
‘Interactive, knowledgeable, and engaging delivery at a good pace. Linked in well with the new Curriculum for Wales. We are from a deprived area where parents would struggle to pay.’ School Feedback
“DangerPoint is a fantastic centre, providing a vital educational resource for North Wales children and young people, and we are proud to support the incredible work they do for a second year. It is also fantastic to work with a charity who are so keen to collaborate and we are excited to see the results of the collaborative project between DangerPoint and Youth Shedz. Well done to all the DangerPoint team!”
Rebecca Neumark – CEO of The Neumark Foundation