2026 has got off to a great start for 27 young people currently progressing through our Teenvine Plus programme! Take a look at the tasty treats and essential life skills we’ve served up this month. Our focus for January was on skills and independence—starting by talking about what being independent means, how we can demonstrate […]
Three weeks ago 27 teenagers attended the annual Teenvine Summer Camp Out at Rough Close in Coventry to celebrate completing our 12-month intensive development programme to strengthen young people in the city who have special educational needs and disabilities. And 17 of them braved the “glorious” British summer weather to stay overnight! Some in the […]
A platform offering step-by-step guides to help non-profits use digital tools is featuring three new guides from Grapevine’s Teenvine Plus programme this Autumn. The ‘Shared Digital Guides’ are contributed by charities themselves with the aim of shared learning, reusing tried and tested methods, and being inspired by similar work taking place across the country. Around […]
Our Teenvine Plus project made it to the final four for ‘Community Group’ at last weekend’s BBC CWR Make A Difference Awards – an annual celebration of people going above and beyond in their local communities. Winners across eight categories were announced at the HMV Empire ceremony on Sunday (17 September) with the Community Group […]
What a fabulous time we had last week at our Teenvine Summer Festival 2023! Fun, connection, exercise and self-expression in the sunshine. A Grapevine team effort brought 17 young people from our Teenvine Plus and Next Steps programmes together for what may (probably will) be an annual camp out and epic send off as they […]
Over the last couple of weeks, our Teenvine Plus and Next Steps teams have been attending council briefing sessions for Coventry clubs and organisations preparing to welcome young people in receipt of free school lunches to their setting for a hot meal and fun activities during the Christmas holidays. The national Holidays, Activities and Food […]
When we share stories about people we’re working with, we often describe their time with us as a journey — a journey that may start in the hardest of times but can end with the skills and hope for a stronger future. On the journey, we sit alongside the person listening closely to their talents […]
What does expressing your unique identity look like in practice for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)? Well, it probably looks very different almost 11 months into a year-long intensive development programme than it did last September when we first started working with this year’s group of Teenviners — and here are […]
This week is Advocacy Awareness Week (13-17 October) and an opportunity to shine a light on the power of advocacy using a different theme each year. This year it is ‘Advocacy Works’—sharing stories that demonstrate advocacy’s powerful impact on people’s lives. In Coventry, Grapevine offers a non-statutory advocacy service to autistic people and people with […]