ChangeTheWorld Ontario Youth Volunteer Challenge

CONTACT’s Volunteer South Simcoe is putting out the call to South Simcoe youth to get involved with this year’s ChangeTheWorld Ontario Youth Volunteer Challenge!

ChangeTheWorld Ontario Youth Volunteer Challenge is a way for Ontario teens to make a difference in their lives and communities through volunteering. 

You can have fun, contribute to your favourite cause and gain valuable community service hours.

This year’s challenge is from April 18th to May 9th and Volunteer South Simcoe has planned a wide range of exciting and rewarding volunteer activities to suit your interests.

Here are just a few of the ChangeTheWorld Events that you can get involved in:

Friday, April 23, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Musicians/Performers
Post Earth Day Jam
The Blue Frog Café, 41 Victoria Street East, Alliston
Music Night at The Blue Frog Café, with a food drive for local food banks.  Local bands, musicians and singers are welcome to perform.

Saturday, April 24, 10 a.m. to 12 noon
Environmental Clean Up
Everett Parks Improvement Committee
Everett Royal Canadian Legion, 6190 County Rd 13, Everett
Meet at Everett Legion Branch 508 (Just N of Simcoe Rd 5 & County Rd 13) to help keep Everett clean and tidy!

Wednesday, April 28, 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Awareness Campaign and Craft Project Volunteers
Grandmothers to Grandmothers 
CONTACT, Town Square, 39 Victoria Street East, Alliston
Grandmothers Embrace is running a fundraiser Walk-A-Thon in June. Volunteers can assist in the development of a marketing campaign and a pin for participants to wear in the Walk.

To check out the complete list of events check out www.volunteersouthsimcoe.ca,  join the NGaged Facebook Group, call 705-435-4900, or email isabell@contactsouthsimcoe.ca

So grab some friends, sign up, and make a difference in your community!

You can Change The World!

Welcome to “The Blue Frog”!

Thanks to the support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, CONTACT will soon be opening a new Youth Café and Enterprise Centre that will offer youth in our community a dedicated space to socialize, learn new skills, gain work experience, and access support to develop their own businesses.

The Blue Frog Youth Café will involve youth at all stages of development and delivery to ensure their needs, ideas, and passions inform and steer the project.

 The Café and Enterprise Centre will be opening in March 2010 at 41 Victoria Street East, Alliston, and will offer affordable and healthy snack and lunch items, an Internet Café, a Recycled Fashions Store, and a venue where youth entrepreneurs can sell their goods and products. 

Youth aged 14 to 29 who are looking for work experience, community service hours, or are entrepreneurs with items to sell can:

• Drop by our main office at 39 Victoria Street East, Alliston
• Contact Tina at  705-435-4900 or email tina@contactsouthsimcoe.ca
• Visit our new dedicated youth website at www.youthcafe.ca and check out the The Blue Frog page 
• Join The Blue Frog on Facebook
• Follow us on Twitter! 

We are also looking for donations of good quality, gently used teen clothing to be sold at The Blue Frog’s Recycled Fashions Store.  Items can be dropped off at our thrift store, The Clothes Line at 55 Victoria Street West, Alliston.