At Youth Vision (YV), we actively encourage and support young people to take an active role in their communities. Our approach focuses on empowering young individuals to realise their potential as community leaders and change-makers.
Through tailored workshops, mentorship, and creative activities, we provide opportunities for skill development and personal growth to inspire the next generation to create positive change.
The Aspiration and Leadership strand offers a more focused emphasis on leadership development and social activism.
It aims to change the narrative by empowering young people to express themselves and address their challenges.
Activities in this strand are:
-Aspiration and Leadership (A&L)
-Empowerment and Progression
-Talent Development
-YV Executive Programme
No Limits
Focusing on confidence and self-esteem building, identity, personal and financial resilience, team building and peer mentoring.
Leadership in Practice
Transfers the theoretical No Limits training into practice where young people lead, plan and deliver a physical or digital event whilst developing interpersonal, leadership skills and qualities, project planning, management and delivery.
Youth Club
A space to socialise, get creative and play different indoor games.
Revision Hub
A safe, quiet, and comfortable space to study, do homework and revise for exams.
Active Citizenship
Equips young people with a sense of civic duty/community service.
Entrepreneurial aspirational development through the following activities:
Build Up
Business, and Enterprise workshops designed to equip young people with skills and knowledge to start and grow a business.
Work-Experience
Mainly for Year 11 students who struggle to secure work experience elsewhere.§ Peer mentoring - equips young leaders to become mentor role models and, in turn, empowers their peers to increase their leadership resilience.
YV Café
A safe space that encourages deeper thought and conversations on various health and well-being topics, including mental health, nutritional health, sexual health, relationships, self-love, etc. and their associated stigma.
Nurturing and developing entrepreneurial and employability skills where young people lead to initiate, plan, develop, and implement micro-enterprising ventures and also an opportunity to gain work experience.
Activities under these include:
– Music Production
-Podcasting
- Performing Arts
- Fashion, Hair and Beauty
- Catering
-Media
Across the three strands, we offer part-time employment opportunities (up to 15 hours per week) to ambitious young people aged 16 to 24 years, who are employed as Young Executives leading the activities listed above and supervised by adult mentors.
This activity enables young people to have clear employment pathways as they develop skills required for the labour market.
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Jummy participated in a YV Cafe session focused on mental health, where they engaged in discussions about how mental health can impact individuals and explored various coping strategies. The session took place in an informal setting, with the support of a counselor, which encouraged open and meaningful conversations. Reflecting on the experience Jummy shared:
"The main thing is what stigma is and how everyone has mental health issues,
no matter what. I also learned different ways to cope."
