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ABOUT US
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Youth Action is an independent community organisation working with young people aged 8 to 24 years old. Youth Action was established in 2003, and now has over 5000 youth members - and this list is growing all the time! |
Our aims are:
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To offer young people activities, which motivate, educate, makes productive use of time and improves the quality of life for young people in the Community.
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To offer activities which promote self help, empowerment and team work, which strengthens the quality of life for young people and the community as a whole.
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To encourage and assist young people in the area to actively participate in the group activities.
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To enhance multi-cultural understanding and mutual respect
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To promote the views and interests of young people to official agencies and bodies with a view to enabling positive change
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To work with young people to equip them with the skills to be effective leaders in their communities and bring about positive community action
Our specific areas of work are:
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Action Focused - through recreational activities designed to bring together all communities in a fun and respectful way which brings about community cohesion and results in healthy living and enjoyment of life.
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Continued Campaigning - through representing and developing youth leadership and civic citizenship by engagement in policy formulation and making accessible the jargon that gets in the way of meaningful involvement.
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Skills Development - which means that the learning young people do is recognised and allows them to break out of economic dis-advantage, achieve more by way of accessing education, employment, training or enterprise or a mixture tailored to individual learning needs to enable everybody to achieve their potential and unique individual talents.
In effect our services are:
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Recreational
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Strategic support in policy development
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Research
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Consultancy
- Support in employment, education, training and enterprise development
