Dalewood Trust completed their beautiful ceramic sundial. It now stands in a quiet part of the grounds and is a reminder of the group’s springtime visits to different woodlands.

The Villages Youth Project from Hunmanby and the surrounding area made a magnificent mosaic. The design represents individual memories from their visits and experiences and is displayed on a wall in the Bayley Gardens, Hunmanby.

Ravenscar Youth Group had a lot of fun! Using black-and-white photographs they had taken around the village, the young people put together a photomontage. The results will shortly be on display at the village hall in Ravenscar.

Whitby Youth Group managed to make giant 3-D sculptures of a fish and a seahorse. They have certainly transformed the Youth Centre at Caedmon School!

The Springboard group meets at the Children’s Centre in Scarborough. The children used different types of fossils to make interesting prints and sculptures. They later held a wonderful exhibition of all their work.

Academy from MENCAP in Scarborough had a marvellous time exploring different parts of the countryside. They took lots of photographs and will frame their favourite one for an exhibition later in the year.

Gillamoor holiday play scheme, near Kirkbymoorside, concentrated on minibeasts. They went looking for bugs and other tiny creatures in the local churchyard. They then did some felt-making and constructed some models, including a giant death’s-head hawk moth!

The SKIDS group from Seamer worked with artists on a fossil and dinosaur theme. They made a large dinosaur frieze, learned how to make fossils using plaster of Paris and constructed ammonites from wire. To finish off their week, the group made giant dinosaur models from scrap materials.

The after-school club from Burniston enjoyed a visit to Robin Hood’s Bay. At their centre, the Den, they worked with an artist to make wonderful soft sculptures of sea creatures emerging from a shell.

A group from the Pupil Referral Unit in Scarborough went on seashore visits to Robin Hood’s Bay. When they returned to their centre, the young people made some brilliant models and a magnificent dinosaur scene which glows eerily under ultra-violet light!

As you can see, most of the projects are in the Scarborough area, but two were planned for neighbouring Ryedale:

A group of scouts and cubs from the Helmsley area stayed at a campsite near Cowhouse Bank, 3 miles north of the town. There was story-telling, paper-making, wool dyeing and investigating the properties of locally found herbs. The project ended with a performance based on a story made up by the group. They used natural materials for the props and costume. There was atrocious weather at the beginning of the week but it failed to put a dampener on the proceedings.