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:
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.
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.
To encourage and assist young people in the area to actively participate in the group activities.
To enhance multi-cultural understanding and mutual respect
To promote the views and interests of young people to official agencies and bodies with a view to enabling positive change
To work with young people to equip them with the skills to be effective leaders in their communities and bring about positive community action
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.
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.
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:
Recreational
Strategic support in policy development
Research
Consultancy
Support in employment, education, training and enterprise development