Aims
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Safe and Fun
Provide safe, accessible and inclusive spaces for young people to spend time and have fun.
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Feed bodies
Provide food for all at our Wee Havens so no young person goes to bed hungry.
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Feed minds
Educate, communicate, provide resource, relevant topics, driven by the young people’s needs.
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Support
Individual needs and challenges, nurture supportive community, be role models.
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Inspire and Encourage
Workshops, challenge the status quo, why accept the current? shape their future? make positive choices.
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Be part of the Community
Encourage youth to shape the community, drive solutions to local challenges.
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Inform policy and government strategy
Advocating for and alongside young people for more effective policy in the eradication of poverty and social inequality.
Our Approach
Our youth activities reflect the three characteristics of youth work in Scotland:
1. It is freely chosen by young people,
2. We provide activities in the local community and their life experiences are respected,
3. Each young person is an active partner in opportunities we deliver.
The relationship and dialogue between the young person and our youth workers is central to the learning process. Our youth workers learn from the young person through this relationship.