YOUTHSOCIAL.CO.UK

We create INFORMED teens and young adults

By informing young people about relevant opportunities and the personal benefits of engaging, we enable young people to achieve, progress and be entertained by connecting them to life-benefiting events, activities and information.

We do this in a number of ways:

Twenty-five years experience engaging young people
Comprehensive understanding of the needs of young people
Uncompromising empathy to their needs and requirements
Influencing youth policies at local, regional and national levels
Developing youth strategies
Delivering employment & mentoring opportunities
Providing a youth voice into decision making
Raising awareness of products and services
Producing life-benefiting resources

If you would like to know more, or would like to partner with us on youth-benefiting projects please get in touch using the contact form below.

Our projects

Increasing the number of young people engaging in arts organisations

We have funding to run two focus groups with arts organisations to understand the obstacles that they face in engaging young people and to identify the challenges that need to be overcome.

Using this as a basis, we will then set up three pop-up creative agencies across Kirklees & Calderdale. These agencies will work with up to 30 young people and will provide participants with a ‘creative experience’ that includes researching the reasons young people don’t engage, identifying the reasons young people would want to be involved in arts activities and co-creating material they would positively respond to.

This project also offers the opportunity for organisations to hear first-hand the views of young people by participating in sessions and/or to attend a project dissemination webinar where all the findings will be discussed.

Into-work
Creative Experience
Podcast Project.

Care experienced young people who are economically inactive are supported to undertake a number of creative tasks that will develop a range of employability and life skills in order to provide a foundation from which they can use to get into employment or return to education.

Podcasts will be published on the Youth Social podcast channel and can be accessed via Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all other popular podcast platforms.

Care-Experienced
Young People
Podcast Project.

Working with Kirklees Council Care teams we will recruit a group of young people with experience of care to create a series of six podcasts that will share positive stories – such as overcoming obstacles in their lives.

These podcasts will not only be a mechanism for developing a range of employability and life skills, but they will also provide a lasting resource to inspire other young people in care.

Youth Volunteering Podcast Project.

We were commissioned to produce a series of podcasts promoting the benefits of youth volunteering.

Working with over 20 teens and young adults, we produced seven podcasts that explored What is youth volunteering, how can it help with education & employment and where do you find available opportunities.

You can listen to the podcasts here:
Apple http://tiny.cc/5mrwxz
Spotify: http://tiny.cc/cmrwxz

Watch a video of the webinar below:

Youth Democracy
Project.

For our first self-commissioned project we will be working with Calderdale Council, Elland Town Development Board and a group of students at Brooksbank Sixth Form in Elland.

The project will seek to establish a youth council that will represent the issues of young people in the town. The group will be supported to set up a body that will input into the local Town Board via the newly established Youth Workstream.

The youth council will also be tasked with leading on the delivery of youth-specific activities and projects within the town.

Could you have our next project?

We are currently sourcing further youth-related projects so if you would like to partner with us in a bid, or commission us to deliver specific youth activity please get in touch via the webform below.