23/10/2026
🎃👻 WHAT A SPECTACULAR HALLOWEEN PARTY AT YOUth MATTERs! 🕷️🧡
Well, what an absolutely brilliant evening we’ve had! 🎉
We made such an effort for tonight, and I’m honestly so proud of all our volunteers for making the hall look so fun and spooky! 🕸️💀 The kids absolutely loved it, and it was so lovely to see everyone enjoying themselves. 🧡
🎃 We had pumpkin carving, with the kids getting to take their creations home, and the ones left over are going to be made into pumpkin pie by one of our lovely volunteers! 🥧
🎨💄 We also had our Halloween makeup station, where the kids could get creative, make a mess and basically draw all over each other! 😂 It was so nice seeing the boys and girls getting involved together, laughing, interacting and just having fun. Not sitting on their phones, but actually spending time with each other. I absolutely love seeing this! 🧡
🕷️ A massive thank you to Rob for making such an effort with the decorations and going all out with the dressing up! I’m totally here for that, and I can’t wait to see what you come up with for Christmas! 😂🎄 He even made us some lovely sausage rolls! 🥐
🧁🍪 A special shout-out to one of our young members who made cakes and biscuits and brought them in for everyone. How lovely is that! 🧡
🎃 And Sophie, that pumpkin you carved was absolutely incredible! I honestly couldn’t believe how good it was! I absolutely love how creative you are! 🧡✨
🙌 To ALL our volunteers, I appreciate you all so much. Thank you for the time and effort you put into making these evenings happen. We really do have a lovely little team. 🧡
👻 And to all our members, both our newbies and our OGs, thank you so much for coming along tonight!
We genuinely weren’t sure how many would turn up, with the kids breaking up for half term yesterday and the weather being absolutely miserable, but we had an amazing turnout! 🥳🧡
It’s so nice to see kids coming together, making friendships, having a laugh and just enjoying themselves. That’s what makes all the effort worthwhile. 🫶
💬 And I just want to say, if your child is sitting at home each week, or you’re seeing our posts and thinking, “I’d really like my child to come along” or your child is wanting to come but feeling a little nervous, PLEASE just come along! 🧡
Honestly, this is exactly why I started YOUth MATTERs. To give young people somewhere to go, somewhere to make friends, feel included and just be themselves. You don’t need to know anyone, you don’t need to come with a group of friends, and you certainly don’t need to worry about fitting in.
🌈 Everyone is welcome here, and we would absolutely love to see some new faces! 🧡
🍂 I hope you all have such an amazing half term, enjoy yourselves and have a lovely weekend!
🎃 We’ll see you all back at the beginning of November! 🧡👻