The Hammer receives the Samfés Encouragement Award

The Hammer Youth Centre in Hafnarfjörður received the Samfés Encouragement Award for its project. ,Is there anything on your mind?“ which is about providing a service to young people in Hafnarfjörður and connecting them with counsellors from Bergið headspace, Samtökin 78 and psychological services. Six projects were selected from a large number of excellent projects and nominations. The Hamarsins project was one of them, and is considered an example to others and an inspiration for good deeds. 

High demand for the services of the Hammer

Since 1 February this year, Bergið headspace has conducted around 40 interviews at Hamar, and Hamar's psychologists have been kept very busy. Often, the young people first meet the counsellor from Bergið, who then guides them on to further resources such as Stígamót or to the psychologists at Hamar. Appointments can be booked at www.bergid.is and www.samtokin.is and state in the comments that you would like the counselling at Hamrinn. If you wish to meet a psychologist directly, please contact Magga Gauja at the email address mgm@hafnarfjordur.is, DM on FB or Insta, or phone 664-5551. 

The Hammer is for all young people with all sorts of interests.

Hamarinn is a youth centre for young people aged 16-25. in the old tax office at 14 Suðurgata, which operates on the values of equality, friendship and well-being. The Hammer has excellent facilities for events, and young people are encouraged to hold concerts, visual art exhibitions, meditate and reflect, or play Dungeons & Dragons late into the night in the space on their own terms. Hamarinn always has a cosy atmosphere and is the perfect place to play pool, watch series, play chess, pick up the guitar, play games, or just chill out and have a chat. Hamarinn works in close partnership with the Red Cross and runs an organised social programme for young people who are refugees and for young people from foreign backgrounds. All young people are welcome at Hamarinn, and the staff are on hand to help with anything on the minds of Hafnarfjörður's young people, in both Icelandic and English. 

About the Samfés Encouragement Award 

Encouragement Award Togetherness are
awarded at the association's annual general meeting each year. Their aim is to encourage and
to draw attention to the powerful work that is carried out in community centres and
youth centres across the country. When making a selection, regard is had to
bearing in mind that the project serves as an example for others to follow and as an incentive for good deeds. A large number of excellent projects were nominated for
2021 Incentive Awards.

Six projects received the Samfés 2021 Encouragement Award: 

• The Youth Centre
  The Hammer – Is there something on your mind?
• Queer
  The Week of the Pond
• Special support
  at the youth centre Zelzíus
• Energy drink education
  Fjörheima
• Respect for the body
  in Akureyri – Club Wahl Félag worked on the project Body Respect Akureyri in
  On the occasion of Children's Culture
• Youth club work
  Without segregation – managers of youth centres in Breiðholti