Youth Action

About Us

Youth Action (YA) is an independent community organisation working with young people aged 8 to 24 years old across Lancashire. Youth Action was established in 2003, and now has over 525 youth members - and this list is growing all the time!

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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
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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

Support in employment, education, training and enterprise development

Staff

CHIEF EXECUTIVE - Amar Abass

OFFICE MANAGER - KAMRAN INAYAT

PROJECT SUPPORT OFFICER - YASMIN PATEL

PROJECT SUPPORT OFFICER - AMIR AKBER

Governance

Youth Action has a strong Board of Trustees who are drawn from and represent the various stakeholder groups of Youth Action.

Youth Action is governed by a Board of Trustees. The organisation is called Youth Action Ltd. (t/a Youth Action). Youth Action is a Company Limited by Guarantee (No. 5601737). The Board of Trustees is also the Company's Directorship.

Over half of the positions on the Board are reserved for young people aged 18-24 who are elected by Members of Youth Action every year.

The Board of Trustees is responsible to the Membership for ensuring That Youth Action fulfils its objectives as defined in the charity's Memorandum and business plan, and have specific responsibilities which include the management of Youth Action staff and finances and strategic planning.

The Board has the Sub Groups which enable work to completed outside of meetings and for the wider Membership, supporters and expertise to be drawn in as necessary. These are:

Communications
Human Resources
Finance & Management

A Board member leads each of these groups.

Trustees

At present we have four Officers for OCF, and they are:-

CHAIRPERSON - MUBASHAR KHALIQ

VICE CHAIRPERSON - ROBINA KAUSER

TREASURER & YOUTH REP - NAUMAN QURESHI

SECRETARY - SADIQ PATEL