Carnegie Young People Initiative

The future 1st project is part of the Birmingham community venture project, which serves Winson Green, an inner city area of Birmingham. The LEA regulates the project. The project is coordinated by a dedicated youth worker, who is employed full time, whilst the staff team is made up of youth, arts and crafts workers, with help from a personal advisor and a Learning Mentor. Two workers are employed for 24 hours per week and a third is employed as sessional worker.

What we do?

The main aim of future 1st is to reconnect disengaged young people aged 14-19 into Education, after exclusion. The project does this in three ways: Firstly we provide OCN accredited courses that operate over the academic year 24 hours per week. The course content focuses on:

1. Self awareness
2. Assertiveness

Lambeth Play Association (LPA) are carrying out a video based participation project with Children across Lambeth.

Six groups are being supported to explore their ideas around the play and leisure facilities available to them in the borough, and what they feel about them. The young people will devise, film and edit the films and then organise a high profile event where they will invite key decision makers and providers to view the films. It is hoped this event will take place some time at the end of November.

The groups will pose questions at this event to the Children and Young People?s Strategic Partnership (CYPSP) as well as other relevant agencies that influence services for children.

This is an exciting opportunity for Lambeth Play Association, and is our first participation project working directly with young people. We hope this can kick-start further consultation and participation work with young people around the borough – eventually leading to the development of a children?s council / LPA children?s committee for Lambeth.

Lambeth Play Association (LPA) are carrying out a video based participation project with Children across Lambeth.

Six groups are being supported to explore their ideas around the play and leisure facilities available to them in the borough, and what they feel about them. The young people will devise, film and edit the films and then organise a high profile event where they will invite key decision makers and providers to view the films. It is hoped this event will take place some time at the end of November.

The groups will pose questions at this event to the Children and Young Peoples Strategic Partnership (CYPSP) as well as other relevant agencies that influence services for children.

This is an exciting opportunity for Lambeth Play Association, and is our first participation project working directly with young people. We hope this can kick-start further consultation and participation work with young people around the borough – eventually leading to the development of a childrens council / LPA childrens committee for Lambeth.

The Aims of the project are:
To dispel the myths and misconceptions of imprisonment.
To raise awareness among young people of the ultimate consequences of crime.
To discourage young people from making a mistake that could ruin their lives.
To encourage young people to take responsibility for their own actions.
To promote a safe and law abiding life style.

Youth amongst black Africans & Minority Ethnic (BME)communities face various challenges owing to their circumstances. Low income and unemployment are common and bring other problems. These include alcohol and substance abuse, domestic strife, family breakdown, school dropout,unemployment and emotional stress. Parents often take major decisions affecting the whole family but do not involve their children. it is likely that the children as youth have problems of poor communication, lack of assertiveness,critical thinking,problem analsyis and indecisiveness. The real nature and magnitude is not known. Nor is there documented evidence which can enable community workers to intervene systematically.
This project is an action research proposal so that the nature,scope and magnitude of the problem is known and addressed.

Youth amongst black Africans & Minority Ethnic (BME)communities face various challenges owing to their circumstances. Low income and unemployment are common and bring other problems. These include alcohol and substance abuse, domestic strife, family breakdown, school dropout,unemployment and emotional stress. Parents often take major decisions affecting the whole family but do not involve their children. it is likely that the children as youth have problems of poor communication, lack of assertiveness,critical thinking,problem analsyis and indecisiveness. The real nature and magnitude is not known. Nor is there documented evidence which can enable community workers to intervene systematically.
This project is an action research proposal so that the nature,scope and magnitude of the problem is known and addressed.

The idea is to publish a magazine which will address the issues impacting on young people. It is designed for young people with an ambition to be journalists. to be able to do the research, write the articles, design the layout, secure advertisement and sell the copies to contribute to the sustainability of the project.

The magazine must address ever aspect of learning social, economic and political life. The articles must challegne the status quo to bring about the desired change.

ESSA aims to be the representative body for secondary students in England. It will help empower students to take a more active involvement in decision making processes affecting their education and work to engage the most disenfrachised members of the school community for whom school is something to endure rather than enjoy.

ESSA will promote the fact that students are the key people in Education and that they should be consulted and involved in decision making issues from the outset, as outlined in Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This project aims to facilitate meaningful and active Citizenship and sustainable involvement in community action amongst young people. It encourages decision making at all levels, responsive to young people’s experiences and based on local realities.

To organise an international summer school for young activists to share experiences, enhance skills and develop enthusiasm and energy to go out and change things that matter to them. This is an event run by young people for young people.