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

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.

100 Faces is a dance and moving image project to create an installation inspired by the architecture of the Old Market Hall Gallery, Shrewsbury, its previous uses and the space enclosed. The installation will be created by Mercurial Dance and 100 participants drawn from secondary schools in Shrewsbury and local area. The participants will work with professional dancers and film-maker to create a series of 100 second ‘mini-movies’. Projected on to the walls of the Old Market Hall, dividing the surfaces of the venue into a series of screens, the dancing figures create cohesive, complex and rhythmic choreographic patterns. An illusion of chinks in the fabric of the building where the audience can catch a glimpse of a long forgotten character.

The project will run in Autumn 2005 and the

The focus of the project is to enrich the young by injecting a Legal approach to the consequences of early crime and drug abuse; and to focus attention on legal outcome. The purpose of such discussions with our young persons is to stimulate debate, taking into account their views, on matters of law and law enforcement agencies. It is hoped from this approach, that our young people will be encouraged to take more responsibilities for their own action and to encourage both understanding and respect for the law in which they live. Surveys and opinions are collated and copies of such surveys are presented to statutory authorities, outlining the views of our young people on matters of crime and drug abuse.

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.

We are a voluntary run multifacetted organisation in an area of extreme deprivation in the City of Nottingham. The centre serves 4,500 homes and was built to provide opportunities for education and training, employment, social interaction, performance, ICT development, support and advice with accompanying childcare. We are looking to consolidate and expand our services.

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.

To build the power and capacity of young people and their institutions in Birmingham in order to ensure they are involved in decision making processes.