ScottishPower Foundation 2019 Citizenship & Community Development Projects

Citizenship & Community Development Projects

The Takeover Team

The Takeover is a week-long arts festival at The Customs House that is produced by, with and for young people to develop and showcase their leadership skills. The Takeover Team is a group of 14-22 year olds who are recruited from diverse backgrounds and have varying leadership and arts experiences. The team decide on the festival's events and the professional artists employed and they support the delivery and promotion of the festival while building arts leadership and transferable skills.

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United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Reduced Inequalities

Changing Faces

The Youth Champions #Face Equality Project

The Youth Champions- #FaceEquality project will identify and support 10-20 young people from across Scotland, up to the age of 25, to lead the charge in ending appearance related bullying and implicit bias. The Youth Champions project will take account of the particular needs of children and young people who can be vulnerable to higher levels of anxiety, other mental health issues, low self-esteem and lack of confidence. It aims to support and train these young people to feel confident and empowered.

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United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Quality Education

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Good Health and well-being

Inter Madrassah Organisation

Junior Citizen Award

The Junior Citizen Award project involves workshops, activity and classroom-based group work, 1-2-1 engagement and whole community events to promote integration, shared values and a sense of belonging whilst countering extremism and raising aspirations. The project will involve young people from up to 10 partner schools being integrated into teams to work together to achieve goals across 4 modules. As tasks are completed the young people will record their achievements in a Log Book and certificates will be awarded for each complete module. At the end of the project, participants will receive a Junior Citizenship Badge from the Mayor of Blackburn at a Civic ceremony.

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United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Youth Focus NW Ltd

POSH Project

Youthforia, the North West Youth Forum is run by a group of thirteen young people in partnership with staff from Youth Focus North West. The aim is to enable young people from across the region to work together to improve the life experiences of young people and have a collective voice across the region. The 'POSH' project has emerged over the last twelve months led by members of Youthforia who want to address concerns related to the lack of awareness among young people about creating a sustainable world, the lack of education for young people on sustainable living, and lack of opportunity for young people to get involved in sustainable living campaigns/projects. The aim of POSH is to create a citizenry that takes responsibility for the natural world.

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