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.

The Village Artists group, Stoke sub Hamdon, Somerset, run art workshops for youngsters aged 8 upwards. 15 children per day and 5 disabled children per day. We only have 10 days throughout the year and want to do more with the youngsters actively taking part in the organisation ie choosing tutor for particular subject, choosing medium, choosing painting or handicrafts. What we have done so far over 41/2 years is amazing. The work produced under guidance of professional tutor is excellent. We have charitable status

YP MiX is a one-stop-shop for fun, advice, information, news and views for the youth of Plymouth run by the youth of Plymouth.

Through the use of online polls, discussion forums, news and reviews YP MiX will provide a voice for young people in Plymouth.

YP MiX will be a portal for young people to seek and access an extensive range of youth related services throughout Plymouth and further a field. This is achieved by working in partnership with a wide range of youth organisations across the city to deliver a single youth orientated website.

Spa Credit Union Limited.
Non-Profit making Financial Co-operative. Offering local people the opportunity to be part of a community and join a financial organisation that addresses social and economic inclusion.
Piloting a Junior savers development project aimed at enabling young peoples financial literacy, developing social skills, numeracy and self-development.

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.

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.

Aims of the project: National Youth Forum for young people aged between 11-25 who are active within our organisations membership or as a NCVYS volunteer. The Forum is an idea generated by our young volunteers, as they wanted to work alongside NCVYS and NCVYS’s Trustee Board to become equal partners in the running of the organisation, and directly contribute to the decision making process.

The purpose of the project is to generate ideas for how we can create new opportunities for young people to get involved with NCVYS at a national level. Setting up the National Youth Forum will allow young people to feed in their ideas to our organisation on what type of work they think we should be undertaking and making an impact on the issues that are important to them.