Youth2Youth
Youth2Youth is a national helpline for under 19 year olds in need of emotional support. A team of 54 trained volunteers from diverse backgrounds, aged between 16 and 21, run the service.
Young people doing Great Things
Projects in the Network range massively from helping the aged to awareness campaigns, and setting up radio stations to creating youth forums. There are no boundaries to what your project is or where you are from. Our network includes everyone from schools and youth groups to clubs and youth offending teams. If you don’t have a project, why not see if there is one in your area that you can get involved with?
Youth2Youth is a national helpline for under 19 year olds in need of emotional support. A team of 54 trained volunteers from diverse backgrounds, aged between 16 and 21, run the service.
Student-led Springhill Community Radio Project broadcasts music, news, interviews, information and advice over school lunch times to tackle anti-social issues including bullying, discrimination and racism.
An interactive adolescent room in a hospice, designed and developed by young people living with progressive life limiting medical conditions
The Opal Project provides support and information for young people who self harm. It was formed by two teenagers who were self-harmers and wanted to provide support and help people to understand the issues which lead young people to self harm.
A support group of young asylum seekers, refugees and British people challenging prejudice.
A project providing training, education, employment and volunteering opportunities and promoting dialogue and cohesion between the local communities (White, Somalian and Bangladeshi)
A project providing a range of social, educational and recreational activities and opportunities to young people in Bury Park, Luton
A charity creating mutually beneficial partnerships between younger and older people.
A project addressing issues identified by young people in Torbay.
We formed our youth council to improve facilities for young people, starting with creating a BMX track and youth shelter.
We aim to raise awareness among young people about safe drinking. We designed, produced and distributed a poster about drink spiking, and launched the ‘Am I bovvered’ cool guide to drinking alcohol safely.
We are a young parents’ group providing advice and education to other young people about the realities of becoming a young parent, through a magazine and presentations in schools, colleges and youth clubs.
We are a youth run group who use music and other creative arts as a means of empowering young people in the local area, bringing them together and promoting positive messages.
We are young people chosen each year from a Tower Hamlets Summer University journalism course, plus a core team, who write, produce and distribute our quarterly magazine on issues that affect young people.
We are young people with learning disabilities who represent our peers and challenge perceptions through creative activities, consultations, working with the local youth parliament, and disability awareness and participation training.
With 99 days to go till the deadline and a brand new online nomination form, now is a great time to get started on your nomination for the 2010 Philip Lawrence Awards.
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Jun 08, 2010 - 10:55 AM
We want to make young people the stars of our marketing campaign for the 2010 awards. We’re asking groups to take part by taking photographs of their group that show the positivity, cooperation and friendship at the heart of a PLAnet project. You could be featured on our website or poster, and will be entered in a prize draw to win a digital camera for your group.
Read More of Could you be the stars of our campaign? Enter our photo challenge
May 25, 2010 - 01:14 PM
Former award winners are calling young people to put themselves in the running for the 2010 Philip Lawrence Awards.
Read More of 2010 Awards now open for entries!
Mar 29, 2010 - 01:29 PM