In this edition some exciting news and updates on young people’s involvement in building toward a youth or community mutual to best establish and maintain youth provision in the area.
In this edition some exciting news and updates on young people’s involvement in building toward a youth or community mutual to best establish and maintain youth provision in the area.
As part of the national Young People Friendly Neighbourhoods programme, we have created a community activism resource to support local communities to indentify concerns and take action to achieve change.
The resource was written by Bill Badham, based on Act by Right (www.actbyright.org.uk). Residents and workers from Torbay helped create the outline and trialled it in April 2012.
This short video describes this new Community Activism resource.
The video tells the story of the journey that residents and workers went on in exploring a simple 5 stage process:
The resource is being tweaked to draw on the learning from this first outing and will soon be available free for wider use.
Photos of the two day event are at
Groundwork North East is supporting young people to take a full part in setting up a Youth Mutual to bring consistent and sustain le youth provision in their area. Here are a couple of examples of the newsletters keeping everyone up to speed on latest developments.