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Youth Projects

Striding Out is working with young people to help develop their leadership and enterprise skills.

We use professional coaching tools and techniques to develop the skills and attributes of young people..

Here are a few of the projects we are working on:-

YouthWorks is a cutting edge new project from London Youth, which aims to train a new generation of youth workers with a specialism in Youth Action.

YouthWorks full-time volunteers will volunteer for 6 months in a host youth club. During this time they will complete their Level 1 Foundation in Youth Work qualification and run a youth action project in their youth club. Participants will be trained in skills needed to help them facilitate a youth action project in their youth club. They will need to inspire 5 young people in their club to run a small project that benefits the club in some way. Young people will be able to access up to £2000 for these projects.

Striding Out is working with YouthWorks to deliver our comprehensive youth leadership and peer to peer coaching programme over a course of 6 months. This comprises of regular monthly one to one coaching sessions and group coaching workshops where young people will be able to work on personal development issues such as increasing confidence, managing time and achieving goals. As well as this they will learn to mentor and coach each other and bring coaching skills into their Youth Clubs.

Re-Evolve part of Vital Regeneration is an innovative careers advice service run by 16-25 year olds from Westminster.

Young volunteers gain confidence and direction in their career through creating their own resources to help other young people decide what careers they want to get into. The volunteers benefit from the hands-on experiences in their chosen industry and as a result become more enterprising and business-minded as they are given the responsibility of organising networking events and career workshops for schools and colleges.

Striding Out is delivering the "Be Confident" Coaching programme for their young volunteers comprising of a series of 4 workshops to develop their confidence in leadership and project management skills.

YouthWorks and Re-Evolve are both vinvolved projects.

Starting Out in Performing Arts

Striding Out has teamed up with Voiceability and PANDA, the Performing Arts Network and Development Agency, to provide inspiration and support to young people who are interested in starting their own business in the performing arts. We held an event at Voiceability's Performing Art Studios, and invited inspiring young entrpreneurial speakers working in the industry to tell their story about what to do and what not to do. Striding Out is providing one to one business coaching to the budding young entrepreneurs.

Urban Academy - we have worked with a group of young people who had a desire to set up a social enterprise in their local community.

The Urban Academy Girls - Lenole, Nadine and Siona had access to group coaching circles every fortnight over 6mths to help them progress their business idea. “The sessions have helped us to increase our confidence and knowledge for planning the business. In particular our knowledge of developing a strategy, financial planning, market research, marketing and management were definitely improved. As a result we have had the motivation to make relevant contacts and connections, and accessed other useful resources and support. We have gone on to secure a £5k loan from the Princes Trust.”

MBG FunHouse is a pioneering new initiative designed by three single mums to create and strengthen social bonds within a deprived community. Fed up and frustrated with the lack of free, family facilities in their local area and with nowhere safe to go to spend quality time engaging with their children, three enterprising young mothers from South London have taken matters into their own hands.

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