Young People Friendly Neighbourhoods

Groundwork’s Young People Friendly Neighbourhoods programme encourages interaction between young people and adults by giving young people the skills and opportunity to make a positive contribution to their local communities. 

The programme, funded by the Big Lottery Fund, empowers young people to make their neighbourhoods better places to live by identifying and delivering environmental and social improvements.  They do this by undertaking audits, community consultations, devising action plans and organising profile-raising activities. 

The young people work in partnership with local agencies such as the Police, local authorities or housing associations thereby becoming more active in local decision-making and helping to create more cohesive communities.

Young People Friendly Neighbourhoods aims to:

• Help 1,200 young people in 18 neighbourhoods to engage in local decision making processes
• Increase the skills and confidence of the young people who take part
• Demonstrate the current local provision of services for young people and support them to identify areas of improvement
• Create a better understanding of the needs of young people and improve community cohesion
• Increase young people's desire to use community spaces

For further information contact Garry Campbell on 0121 236 8565.

Associated pages

• Read a volunteer’s experience of taking part in this programme
  

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Birmingham B1 2RR

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