<font face="arial"><font color="red"><b>WELCOME</b><br></font><p>
Welcome to NMYP! We send out an email on average once a week with details about upcoming activities and other useful information for parents. Any information you should need to know about the Project can also be found in the members area of our website (click the link at the bottom of this email to login or visit <a href="http://www.nmyouth.org.uk/members.php">http://www.nmyouth.org.uk/members.php</a><p>
We currently have 29 new year 5 members and can take up to 40. If you have any friends who might be interested in joining who have not yet signed up, please ask them to contact us.<p>
<font face="arial"><font color="red"><b>FRIDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER</b><br></font><p>
Our first meeting for full members is this Friday. We have asked our year 5 members to arrive 15 minutes early if possible (5:45pm) so we can go through rules etc before everyone else turns up. This meeting will be for the whole of year 5 and year 6 so will be a bit more manic and loud than our usual meetings! More informtation about what we are doing below.<p>
<b>CASUAL MEMBERS</b> - your first meeting is Fri 29th September.<p>

<font face="arial"><font color="red"><b>AFTERNOON AT TOLMERS, SAT 30TH SEPT</b><br></font><p>
On Sat 30th Sept, we will be running an afternoon at Tolmers just for our new year 5 members. We have booked an archery session, will be playing some really fun games in the woods and the fields, and practising our fire lighting skills! If you are free please come along. You do need to let us know in advance so we have an idea of numbers; click on the members link below and sign up under the 'activities' link. We'll be there from 1:45-6pm. If you can only come for some of that time it's not a problem just let us know. We'd also love to hear from any parents who would be able to help supervise. <p>Tolmers activity centre is located at Cuffley, postcode EN6 4JS. The cost of this activity is &pound;7 however as is the case for all NMYP activities, if you cannot afford this please talk to us in confidence.<p>

<font face="arial"><font color="red"><b>SUBS</b><br></font><p>
Subs are now due for the Autumn Term 2017. Please log on via the members link below to pay via paypal, or bring cash (in a named envelope) or a cheque (made payable to North Mymms Youth Project) along with you to your first meeting. In accordance with an upcoming law change, we no longer charge a surcharge for paying via Paypal and would prefer if you can pay this way if possible as it does reduce our admin!
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<font face="arial"><font color="red"><b>PARENTAL HELP</b><br></font><p>
We have a very small leadership team to look after our 200+ members so it is a condition of membership that parents help us out once a term. This could either be at a Friday meeting, or by helping out with some admin 'behind the scenes'. There is a link at the top of this email with what help we are looking for at the moment. <p>
We also have some dedicated parents who help regularly on a Friday evening. We could not manage withou them! If you would be willing to help regularly (once a month, fortnight or every week!) we'd love to hear from you. To comply with the law if you are helping once a month or more regularly we do need to DBS check you, but this is done at no cost to yourself.
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<font face="arial"><font color="red"><b>SUMMER CAMP</b><br></font><p>Every year we run a week long summer camp for our members in year 6 and older. You can see what we got up to this year by watching the short video below:<center>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5DTyaoeQqI"><img src="http://www.nmyouth.org.uk/images/201708scamp.jpg" border=1 width=600></a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5DTyaoeQqI">Click here to watch video</a><p></center>

Unfortunately your son/daughter won't be old enough to attend summer camp next year, but they will be welcome to join us in 2019. We always run summer camp in the last full week of the summer holidays. We do run an intro camp for year 5 next summer, more details nearer the time!