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.

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.

Vibrant Futures is a non profit making organisation run by two young social entrepreneurs. We organise:

Words Out of Silence Project’ funded by Arts Council England, which worked with secondary school pupils in inner city Middlesbrough to explore key citizenship themes through silent film and other art forms.

Media Matters – a series of training days and publications to skill up young people and youth project workers in essential media skills – interviews, writing press releases, dealing with bad publicity.

Training – Changemakers, Darlington Youth Parliament, BTCV and many other organisations have benefited from our training, which is available in: public speaking, media skills, using arts as an engagement tool, running workshops with young people.

To promote integration of young refugees and young people seeking asylum, using adventurous activities and the arts.

Is a project which is part of the Youth Service. We are a Youth Forum/Council and aims to work with young people aged 11 – 25 years – majority of young people accessing are in the 13 -19 year age band living in the South Tyneside Area. The project gives young people a platform to air their views on issues which impact on their lives.

The South Tyneside Participation Project is one of a number of projects which have been funded through South Tyneside Children’s Fund. Our job is to encourage children to join in and have their say when decisions are made that affect them. We aim to work in creative and exciting ways to support participation and provide opportunities that may otherwise not be available.

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.

Theatre PIE (Participation, inclusion and empowerment) is a creative programme of accredited training in community arts skills. It is designed to equip a core of young people to develop and deliver a programme of Citizenship Education to their peers and professionals.

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.