ABOUT US

Our aims are:

• To provide high quality information, advice and guidance

• 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

Our specific areas of work are:

• 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
• Information, Advice & Guidance
• Support in employment, education, training and enterprise development