Programmes

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Thinking...

 

DIY Social Change

 

Through research and development we seek to better connect mainstream organisations and marginalised communities to collaboratively and more equitably address social, economic and environmental issues that affect us all.

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And Doing...

 

Creative RoEL ModELs : Youth Workers Leading Change

 

The Creative RoEL© ModELs - Rules of Engagement & Learning - address the lack of knowledge of, and access to, quality creative experiences and progression pathways for marginalised young people.   

 

Most Young People’s cultural/creative engagement is through institutions like school and even though this has increased, it has not brought about a transformative level of personal development and social benefit, nor diversity and representation in the cultural/creative sector. We champion a non-institutional inclusion framework using youth workers as a pathway that can bring about that transformation.

 

Youth Workers are key gatekeepers to marginalised communities. Creatives can provide quality creative experiences with progression. We advocate that creatives and youth workers should collaborate.  Together they are well-placed to provide and support sustainable access to, engagement with, and progression pathways into the cultural/creative sector – through projects and careers opportunities.

 

Creative RoEL© ModELs better connect youth workers and creatives to deliver more meaningful cultural engagement in marginalised communities and highlight the value of youth work in the process.

 

Project RoELs

Informal learning sessions aiming to better connect youth workers and creatives to co- deliver more impactful creative experiences for young people aged 7-19.  

 

Paid co-design sessions with youth workers and creatives to build knowledge and networks, and enable youth workers to prepare the young people for the project, support them and the creatives during the project and continue support post-project - treating them more like teachers.  The youth workers and creatives will explore a funded youth project using 7 themes, to collaboratively agree start date, content, delivery and evaluation: 

• knowledge of sectors and project

• access to youth and industry

• engagement of young people for the project

• participation of young people in the project

• learning for the young people, youth workers and creatives – aims, monitoring, evaluation, learning & Impact

• progression pathways for the young people, youth workers and creatives

• legacy for the community, youth sector and creative/cultural sector 

 

Screen RoELs

Following a successful pilot initiatives in 2023-24 with Barking & Dagenham Council, Youth Workers in East London, Fully Focused Training Organisation, ScreenSkills, Film London and 60Forty Films we can evidence a new model for career pathways into the HETV industry. 

 

The evidence and learnings from the pilot show this model is scalable, economically viable and can be delivered not only in other London Boroughs, but also regionally and in other home nations. This is done through developing partnerships with Youth Workers, Councils, Industry Support Organisations, and Production Companies, to deliver 'Screen Rules of Engagement Learning (RoELs)' sessions to young people 16+ to give them an awareness of what non-institutional career pathways are possible for them into the TV industry, and working with young people 18+ to give them access to and support in real industry opportunities

 

Working to upskill youth workers with knowledge of and access to Careers in Screen Industries, to support engagement of talented young people from marginalised neighbourhoods, and to give young people accessible, quality, relevant opportunities with progression pathways:

• Entry level  (foot in the door) 

  • work and freelance

  • training / work experience

• Min/no qualifications required

• Work Ready Skills & Experience (WRYSE) competencies preferred

• Paid​

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​Social Soil

 

Social Soil© starts in youth club kitchens.  Our focus is food.  Our community is marginalised.  Our approach is to develop an accessible, scalable and sustainable model for climate action working with and upskilling youth workers and young people. 

 

A key strand is exploring ways of reducing, reusing and recycling food waste to support improved health & well-being, address climate change and encourage enterprise.  We will develop climate action starter kits (CASKs) for each youth club we work with made up of:  a Learning Programme to upskill local youth workers to run healthy cooking & eating and enterprise/careers projects; equipment to recycle foodwaste into soil; local growing partners map and introductions; an accessible data collection mechanism to track individual youth club climate action outputs as well as combined youth club network impact; and a community engagement platform for communications and support.​​