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Young people enjoy “Big Days Out” with Amazing Futures East Sussex

Over the past few months we’ve been super busy with our Big Days Out at Amazing Futures East Sussex.

Whenever we consulted with young people about our Amazing Futures offer, they always said they would love to go on trips and visit new places with people who make them feel safe and understand them. ​So we supported Billie, one of our volunteers and our new sessional worker, to apply for funding for a series of day trips. We were thrilled when we were successful in receiving funding for the project from East Sussex County Council!

Since then we’ve been bowling, fought laser quest battles, explored the gardens at Paradise Park in Newhaven, learned loads at Herstmonceux Science Centre, and headed into Brighton to play indoors mini-golf and spend a day at the aquarium. We even had a big day trip out to London to visit the Natural History Museum and meet the dinosaurs!

The trips have been hugely successful and popular with the young people, who’ve had a blast getting out and about trying new things and seeing the sights:

“I had a great time at Sealife and I’d love for us to meet up again soon.”

“Felt well supported and Chione our group leader let us choose where to go. We loved seeing everything up close.”

“Favourite part of the museum was the baronic skeleton. 10 out of 10 enjoyed the day.”

“I had an amazing day thank you very much”

Many thanks to East Sussex County Council for making this possible!

As well as our Big Days Out, we’ve also been holding our regular youth groups and sessions across Eastbourne, Bexhill, Hastings and Seaford, including boardgames, Be Active sessions, 20+ pub night, and loads more. Search for upcoming sessions.

Photo taken from inside a glass tunnel, showing a large turtle swimming overhead. In the foreground someone is taking a photo of the turtle on their phone.
Small group of young people smiling, with coordinator Claire, at a bowling alley. Claire is a smiling woman with dark blonde hair and glasses, she appears to be in her thirties or forties.
Young woman looks at a swirling vortex of water in a large clear tube, outside at Herstmonceux Science Centre.
Playing indoors mini-golf amid luminescent bright striped dinosaurs, with the entire walls and ceiling painted to match.
People crouched down to look at small turtles in a tank, one taking a photo on their phone.
Smiling girl levitates a ball in the air and towards a hoop using a tube, at Herstmonceux Science Centre
Young man looking closely at a screen showing a complex graph, at Herstmonceux Science Centre
A young woman reads a display reading "How big was a pteranodon's egg?" in front of a dinosaur display
Young people pose next to a fern, with a large striped dinosaur model behind them, and fluorescent trees on the walls behind them, holding golf clubs.
Young man wearing ear protectors poses for a photo with both thumbs up and grinning.
A young person in a hoodie with dyed blue hair walks along in an indoor garden with lots of ferns and rocks, at Paradise Park.
Three young people, one waving, one with headphones round his neck, posing in the Natural History Museum.
Young man seated in some kind of hanging apparatus at Herstmonceux Science Centre, his hand on controls.
Massive model, larger than a person, of a T rex head with its mouth open showing lots of spiky teeth
Young people on the train headed to London
A mixed gender group of young people from Amazing Futures pose for a photo in Paradise Park gardens in front of a large tree. Two girls are hugging. There are two adults stood with them.
Four young people sat down, dressed warmly, with a wooden wall behind. They are smiling and one is doing two "V" peace signs at the camera.
Young people all crowded together, standing on a tube train in London, grinning.
A young woman in a band tee and hoodie stands in front of a large model of the earth, bigger than they are, with a cut out section to show the layers inside the earth.
Young people look at a large display, showing something round like a moon or planet, with lit lines extending from it.
Mixed gender group of young people sit at tables with drinks, with bright fluorescent flowers painted on the wall behind them, at Globalls mini-golf.
A young person with long hair mid-bowl at a bowling alley
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