Virtual minecraft club for SEND Youth Groups
As part of our Community Tech Discovery Fund Project, we would like to work with 2/3 youth or community groups for children and young people with SEND, to create ‘done for you’ private, secure, safeguarded, virtual Minecraft Club for your members who love Minecraft and those who would like to try it.
We will set up, free of charge, forever, a private Minecraft world just for your group. We will recreate your venue in the game if you have one, allow optional access to our communal worlds and mini-games to meet other Member players if you want that, and arrange free of charge workshops for staff and parents in how to play, how to host a social session, how the safeguarding measures work, how to set up the game. We can even provide a limited number of game licenses free of charge to qualifying families.
We will support you every step of the way in accessing, setting up, and making use of the virtual Minecraft Club.
We ask in return – feedback to help us shape this offer to be pain free for parents and staff and to help us remove any barriers to access, attendance at the Introduction to Minecraft workshop. This can all be done online, if you are local to Sandwell/Dudley we can arrange in person sessions. Finally we ask for honest feedback to allow us to evaluate the project in April 2024.
You can see our full offer document here.
why is this useful?
I have seen the incredible impact that Minecraft has had on many of my group members.
Increasing self confidence, building friendships between children and parents/carers, providing opportunities for real life meet-ups for online friendships, being part of a wider community, leadership opportunities and giving them a sense of joy and happiness and something that is so much looked forward to every week.
I would love to be able to share this with other groups and make it painless, accessible and straightforward for them to get set up safely.
Setting Minecraft up and accessing a server can be complicated depending on how comfortable you are with computers, and its scary as a parent letting your sometimes vulnerable child play online with strangers, and they might not have friends to play with. I hope to remove these barriers and worries and make it an easy, transparent process with tight safeguards in place, and help parents understand how it all works.
I hope to remove these barriers and worries and make it an easy, transparent process with tight safeguards in place, and help parents understand how it all works, on a server with other children, verified members, who share a common interest of Minecraft.
