The Bytes Project mission statement is as follows:
The Bytes Project will provide opportunities in an informal setting for young people to accelerate their own personal development through the creative and enjoyable use of technology.
The Bytes Project will encourage and support those young people who, by their social environment or personal experience, face obstacles to personal development.
The Bytes Project will assist young people to achieve their full potential, through progression to further education, purposeful training or the world of work.
All of the Bytes Centres offer the following and much more...
Free Internet Use
Free Email Use
Learn Web Design and Desktop Publishing
Search for Jobs and Courses online
Create a CV to help you find a job
You can get access to Free Qualifications and much much more...
Please contact the Bytes Head Office or check out your local Bytes Centre for more details...
Welcome
to the website for the Bytes Project. Bytes is a project aimed at those aged between 16 and 25 in many areas of Belfast and also in Derry. Check out our Centres Page for information and directions to your nearest Bytes centre...
At Bytes we offer many things including free broadband internet access, advice on jobs and education, projects to get involved in and much much more...
Reg Empey Visit
On Thursday 3 April 2008, New Lodge Bytes hosted a visit from the Department for Employment and Learning’s Minister Sir Reg Empey. The Minister was carrying out a series of visits to the various organisations that DEL provide funding for, and he was accompanied by a photographer and journalist from the Belfast Telegraph who were writing an article on the “Day of a Life of a Minister”.
Sir Reg Empey spoke to young people who attend the Newlodge Bytes Centre and asked them about the project work that they carried out in Bytes and the reasons why they use the centre. He was very interested in the young people’s folders and the recent project work that they had undertaken. Staff at New Lodge Bytes would like to extend a special thanks to the young people who attended the Minister’s visit: Colum Kelly, Joe Murphy, Gary McDade, Philip Moore, Martin Hughes, Anthony McDade, James Brophy and David McGahan.
OCN Training for Youth Work
Eight young women are currently completing their OCN Training for youth work Level 1. The group has enjoyed designing and delivering their own ice-breakers and has worked very well in team building exercises. The young people completed action plans for the qualities they would like to develop in themselves. As part of the qualification the young women delivered a ten minute presentation in front of their peers in a subject that they are interested in.
Young Women’s Conference
A group of young women from Poleglass Bytes attended a Young Women’s Conference at Youth Action. The event was called ‘Side By Side’ and the young women from Poleglass joined over fifty young women from all over Belfast in an exciting and fun packed evening. The activities included a huge plaque which the young women wrote their responses to the questions, such as: How do you feel about being a young woman in Northern Ireland. Other activities included learning how to do traditional Indian dance and how to play the African Drums. The last activity was workshops were the young women wrote and recorded their own raps which were played to everyone at the end of the evening.
The Bytes Project was previously interviewed by UTV with regards to the Matthew Lyle website set-up by parents David and Helen Lyle to help other people who may be struggling with drug and alcohol addictions.