As a youth-led charity, we support young people with their learning and expose them to a range of potential areas of interest. We provide them with opportunities to achieve their ambitions and aspirations. The young people devise numerous creative educational projects covering a range of contemporary societal issues. These projects enable young people to learn and develop transferable skills in many different areas. Their work may involve script and film development, a stage production, song writing or organising and hosting an annual conference whereby we showcase all the brilliant work created throughout the year. Many of them are invited to speak at high profile events both nationally and internationally, to consult policy-makers or deliver training to frontline professionals, including teachers, police, lawyers and medical professionals.
Central to our decision-making are 8 Junior Trustees who lead youth steering groups and report back to the board of trustees. They are crucial as they keep us on track, share constructive feedback and inform all aspects of our service.
Our Outreach Workers deliver peer-education workshops in schools across the nation, using our young activists’ media resources. This allows students to develop a profound connection with the resource as they internalise and reflect on their own lives, but it also acts as a means of encouragement to get involved in youth activism. Our workshops initiate discussions around a range difficult issues such as female genital mutilation {FGM}, honour-based abuse {HBA} and forced marriage, sexual harassment and assault, coercive control, toxic masculinity, racism and different forms of extremism.
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