YWW25: Vision for the Future Gallery

Youth Volunteers and Hattie, JIGSAW Thornbury

JIGSAW Thornbury celebrated the theme Building Brighter Futures – Safe places, trusted support, and opportunities to thrive at our special community event: JIGSAW Thornbury's Purple Party. A fundraising event that embodied community, connection and fun.

The Key, Bright Beginings Group

Sea Rangers (4)

R.E.A.C.H. Morecambe Youth Festival | Launch of RISE Young Lancaster District

RISE Young Lancaster District: our ambition is to build a district where every child and young person is heard, happy, inspired, and dares to dream.

fosseway

Grace, JIGSAW Thornbury

At JIGSAW Thornbury, we work with children and young people with additional needs or disabilities and their families, providing friendship, support, and fun in an inclusive environment.

Waterside Centre, Newbury – Berkshire Youth Network

Celebrating Inclusion Youth Workers Supporting Young People at London Pride

Youth workers are often the bridge between young people and opportunities they might not otherwise access. By organising trips to London Pride, they ensure that young people can participate in a safe, inclusive environment. This includes preparing them for the day, discussing what Pride represents, and ensuring safeguarding measures are in place throughout the event.

The Hangleton and Knoll Project Art Group for young women & marginalised genders using creativity to build wellbeing, community & resilience through life’s challenges. “It’s relaxing, enjoyable and fun.”

YPT Youth Arts Still Life

BHCC Youth Participation Team Youth Arts; creativity as a tool for youth work 1:1 with teens who are unable to access education due to mental health. Youth Arts “gives me a space to focus on my art and art only rather than having all these distractions.”

Youth Participation Team Youth Arts

BHCC Youth Participation Team Youth Arts. “Because of my autism I haven’t been able to go to art college; these sessions are my way to learn art. I use art for self-expression about my gender identity, I’m trans so this is helpful for me.”

YPT Youth Arts Textile Embroidery

BHCC Youth Participation Team Youth Arts; creativity as a tool for 1:1 youth work & good mental health. “My embroidery skills are developing because I've never stitched a picture before. I'm learning to use different stitches to create colour & texture.”

Ellie poem, JIGSAW Thornbury

At JIGSAW Thornbury, we work with children and young people with additional needs or disabilities and their families, providing friendship, support, and fun in an inclusive environment.

YPT Youth Arts Trans Youth 2

BHCC Youth Participation Team Youth Arts. “Drawing masculine characters in skirts give me the opportunity to express my gender identity in a way I can’t in everyday life. I find busy, noisy places hard because of my autism but I can cope in small groups.”

The Hangleton and Knoll Project Art Group for young women & marginalised genders using creativity to build wellbeing, community & resilience through life’s challenges. I like “meeting new friends.”

An Ode to Youth Workers by Lee Ritchie

As a youth worker of many years myself, I have spent the last 25+ years watching fellow youth workers work incredibly hard to make a positive difference to young people's lives. Times have been very tough over the last 15 years with cuts to both statutory and charity sector youth services. I've watched a lot of youth clubs close and a lot of youth workers leave the sector due to burn out and lack of jobs. Youth workers: I thought it was about time that someone told you how special you all are, and thanked you on behalf of society for the important work you do. Thank you! This poem is an ode to youth workers. From Lee

University Hospital Southampton

The Key, from the Youth Action Unlocked event

Volunteers – Youth and Adult

At JIGSAW Thornbury

Woodcraft Folk

Warhammer World

It takes a village to raise a child

North Tyneside Youth Council 2

East Riding MYP

CBC – Youth Development Leader Chris Williams 2

The Hangleton and Knoll Project Art Group for young women & marginalised genders using creativity to build wellbeing, community & resilience through life’s challenges. “You can choose what you do.”

Walton Youth & Community Project

Newcastle College, supported by The Key

North Tyneside Youth Council

Ability Counts SEND Youth Club

Priscilla Nwachukwu-Ijomah

Sea Rangers (2)

YPT Youth Arts Fantasy Outfit

BHCC Youth Participation Team Youth Arts; creativity and Arts Award as a tool for 1:1 youth work. “What surprised me the most looking back was just how much I’ve done. I’ve really pushed myself with my sewing; working with new fabrics and techniques.”

HAF project

Warhammer

YMCA North Tyneside

We are UHS Poster – YEW

Youth Participation Team: Youth Arts Print making

BHCC Youth Participation Team Youth Arts. “It's called ‘letting grow’, it's about growing in spite of the past & accepting that things are temporary, it's okay to grow out of things or people that are dragging you down, even if they were once important.”

Sea Rangers (1)

CBC – Youth Development Leader Chris Williams 8

Ellie Bennett- Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council Youth Groups yww post

North of England Activities and Training

Lois Robinson

United Youth Alliance

YPT Youth Arts Stitching

BHCC Youth Participation Team Youth Arts; creativity & Arts Award as a tool for youth work with teens who are unable to access education due to poor mental health. “I have enjoyed learning embroidery and the different stitches. I liked stitching pictures”

CBC – Youth Development Leader Chris Williams 6

Jennie Maughan

Scouts – Andrew Thorpe

Young People’s Team Croydon Drop-In

football active together project

YPT Youth Arts Painting

BHCC Youth Participation Team Youth Arts; creativity as a tool for youth work. “It gave me time to be creative again. I developed new skills & tested some fun drawing techniques. I feel really proud completing the Arts Award & have achieved so much.”

The Hangleton and Knoll Project Art Group for young women & marginalised genders using creativity to build wellbeing, community & resilience through life’s challenges. “It doesn’t feel pressured.”