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Positively contributing to the lives of 1000s of Yorkshire's young people & delivering some of the most innovative youth work in its sector.
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Joined January 2012
On Thursday, some of our community ambassadors attended the Flint Family Fund celebration event with @leedscommfound , a great evening seeing all the amazing work funded by the Flint Family! #Chooseyouthwork
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In Halton Moor, our ambassadors came together to finalise their draft consultation report and planned their next 6 weeks of sessions. One of our core young people also wrote an impact story that will be published on our website! #Chooseyouthwork
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Youth workers have been sharing their passions around to art to help young people see the value of outside spaces, and how art can be made anywhere. Young people shared the importance of art on their mental health, and how they can express their emotions in a positive way.
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Yesterday evening youth workers were out in BRH, planning and promoting our upcoming projects while providing young people with hot chocolates to keep warm! 🥶☕ #chooseyouthwork
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In Halton Moor, our ambassadors began their analysis of their consultation! They wrote down their key findings, used art to share the voice of young people and presented a great layout for the report! Amazing work #Chooseyouthwork
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In Halton, young people have been sharing their views on how to improve their local park, and how this can positively impact their communities mental health! One of our core young people has also taken steps to begin their youth work career journey! Amazing work!#Chooseyouthwork
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Across Halton Moor, young people have been taking part in light art, learning new ways to express themselves! Groups worked with staff to plan future sessions, incorporating the arts! #Chooseyouthwork
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Our Halton Moor Community Ambassadors came together for their first session of 2025 last night! They created their Sutton Park consultation and focus group, to conduct across their area, to improve their local park! #Chooseyouthwork
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Our partnership with Leeds Refugee Forum and Leeds Rhinos Foundation continued. Young people took part in a focus group - finding out more about how we can break down barriers to accessing sports! Young people got their certificates for taking part in StreetSafe workshops!
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Our Halton Moor Community Ambassadors spent their session reflecting on all they had achieved in 2024! They each received a record of achiement, with a reference from our staff! They also began planning their 2025 consultation to continue their work! #Chooseyouthwork
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To celebrate 120 years of The Youth Association - we hosted our board meeting, where young people from across our projects came to present to the board to explain what they have been doing over the year! #chooseyouthwork
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In Leeds, young people took part in our drug awareness workshop, discussing why people use drugs, the impacts and harm reduction! 2 members of the group took part in our international podcast around crime and safety, with Chapel FM and Cultuur In De Wjik! #Chooseyouthwork
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Our partnership with Leeds Refugee Forum continued last night, with young people from Leeds taking part in our knife crime awareness workshop! They also continued plans for their upcoming podcast next week! Leeds Rhinos delivered some great indoor cricket! #Chooseyouthwork
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Last night our Halton Moor Communtiy Ambassadors came together to plan for their projects, coming up in 2025! They discussed what worked well over this year and how they want to improve and expand in the new year! #WatchThisSpace #Chooseyouthwork
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In Halton Moor, core groups had the opportunity to meet our interviewees, as part of their recruitment process! Young people took part in multisports and engaged in discussions around youth work, goals and challenging misogyny. #Chooseyouthwork
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Our partnership with Leeds Refugee Forum and Leeds Rhinos Foundation expanded, with young people meeting our Dutch partners Cultuur in de Wijk preparing for their upcoming podcast, discussing crime and safety. Leeds Rhinos delivered table tennis and multisports! #Chooseyouthwork
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Last night our youth workers attended Leeds Refugee Forum to start our StreetSafe programme with young people from the local area, alongside Leeds Rhinos. Across Ebor Gardens, young people took part in the StreetGames survey around sports involvement! #Chooseyouthwork
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Our Community Ambassadors came together last night to reflect on their Halloween project! The group are really proud of the amazing event and look forward to doing more for their community! We then watched fireworks and celebrated bonfire night safely! #Chooseyouthwork
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Across BRH and Halton Moor, our youth workers have been out delivering a variety of firework safety workshops, creating T-shirts to spread safety messages and even had a second visit from West Yorkshire Fire Service! #Chooseyouthwork
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Members of LYA Collective came together to reflect on the progress of their research so far! The group discussed all their ideas of how they can help make positive change in Leeds! The group also decided on roles they would like to do during our meetings! #Chooseyouthwork
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