DRAFT Young Westminster Foundation activities Activities with and

DRAFT Young Westminster Foundation activities Activities with and for Young People across the Foundation’s membership Activities Mechanisms of Change • Practical life skills (L/S, cooking, driving) • Health and wellbeing workshops and resources, including sexual health • Creative and digital (arts and crafts, coding, young reporters, radio) • Holiday programme • Youth work: targeted, open access, dethatched • one-to-one support for young people, such as mentoring • Gangs exit programme • Sports • Social action/ leadership/ democratic participation/ citizenship • Youth leaderships • Accompanying young people to meetings/appointments • Activities are shaped by young people • Strong relationships between staff and peers • Young people are supported by staff and peers • Young people feel trusted and able to trust others • All delivery partners are trusted points of contact for young people • Young people have someone who will listen • Young people feel included • Young people feel respected • Difference and diversity is celebrated • Affordable access to opportunities • Young people feel a sense of enjoyment • Young people feel safe • Young people feel a sense of empowerment • Young people feel supportively challenged • Young people feel a sense of purpose • Activities are geographically accessible to young people Safety promotion Quarterly partnership meetings Work placements Signposting between partners Advocacy for young people and youth work • Joint fundraising • Fiscal responsibility • Partners authentically regard young people as experts of their experience • Transparency • Strong relationships between partners • Co-production with young people • Explicit knowledge of YWF partners’ offer • • • Outcomes • Increased knowledge/understanding of how to feel/stay safe • Improved/maintained emotional and physical health and wellbeing • Increased community cohesion/ crossing post-code boundaries • Improved self-efficacy • Reduced social isolation • Improved leadership capabilities • Increased sense of pride in self • Increased sense of optimisms for the future • Improved social and emotional skills • Increased resilience Aims • Variety of opportunities on offer for young people • Better transitions towards adulthood • Better knowledge of other organisations’ offer • Young people lead healthy lifestyles • Increased appropriate opportunities for young people • For a connected and thriving community of practitioners to be created and maintained • Increased influence of how youth provision is funded