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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 can be 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?

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Body Rocks

Body Rocks offers ex offenders and other young people at risk of social exclusion the opportunity to achieve a fitness teaching qualification.

Crosscultures

Crosscultures gives practical and emotional support to asylum seekers, refugees and migrants from across the globe.

Aldbourne CAN

Aldbourne Youth Council transformed their village’s old public toilets into a welcoming internet café for the community. These young people are bringing generations together, taking responsibility, and creating an inspiring model that they hope others will adopt.

SW!TCH ID

Challenging negative perceptions and transforming local public opinion of young people into something positive. SW!TCH ID tackle local issues, engage the community and organise activities such as litterpicking flashmobs, a community art show and family fun days.

Forsythia Youth Project

These young people refuse to be written off by their postcode, getting involved in volunteering, setting up a community gym and taking part in positive activities. They are proving that given respect and opportunities, every young person is capable of greatness.

Bikes2Gambia

Hackney’s Volunteer Police Cadets are steering clear of involvement in crime and gangs, developing skills and helping others in their own communities and further afield, through repairing bicycles to send to Gambian orphanages, sports coaching and running activities for local young people.

Haggeye

Haggeye is the forum for blind and partially sighted young people across Scotland. Working together they campaign, consult and make a difference, improving accessibility of services. Through this work they are flourishing as independent, confident young leaders.

Soundminds

2010 REGIONAL FINALIST Soundminds aims to change the way in which young people think about mental health and challenge the stigma's which exist, they do this in a cool and non-threatening way by coordinating music events across North Lanarkshire and beyond. Soundminds was created by young people and is run entirely for young people aged between 10 and 26.

Trick or Treat

2010 SPECIAL COMMENDATION Supported by Fearless. A young theatre group who responded positively to the tragic murder of a local teenager by performing and running workshops in schools to get across the impact of violent crime and hopefully prevent similar attacks.

BTCV Flow

2010 REGIONAL FINALIST A unique practical based conservation project for 16-19 year old unemployed people from Bristol aiming to improve health, empoyability, environmental awareness, develop skills and gain qualifications.

No Name Theatre Group

2010 REGIONAL FINALIST An eccentric group of diverse young people who express their views through the arts. This year we worked on the creation of a full length dramatic graphic novel using photography and still acting.

HYCUP (Helping Young Carers to Unite and Participate)

2010 REGIONAL FINALIST A forum to enable young carers to have their say and influence decision makers, so that young carers throughout the scottish borders are able to reach their full potential, make informed decisions, and feel supported at home, at work and in education.

Breaking the Cycle

2010 REGIONAL FINALIST Breaking the Cycle is a civic engagement project which seeks to address the impact of violence on the everyday lives of young people from minority ethnic groups.

YAYA (Young Adults, Young Artists)

2010 REGIONAL FINALIST A Group of Young Adults Who Plan, Organise & Host Artistic Events In Nottinghamshire.

Hammersmith and Fulham Young Advisors

Hammersmith and Fulham Young Advisors are professional youth consultants who are committed to making their community a safer and better place to live, work and play.

DRC Addiction Forum

A Peer Education programme which focuses on substance misuse including a broad range of social skills delivered to and by young people under 16 years of age.

Inspector8

Inspector8 is an innovative young person-led project that makes a real difference to young people through working in partnership with a range of public agencies to influence and improve the services they provide.

Horbury School CyberMentors

An anti bullying awareness & mentoring programme

Young Leaders at Pitstop 2000 Ltd

5 young people led projects which created 5 new positive activities at their centre

Crewe & Nantwich Community Space Challenge

The Community Space Challenge helps young people to take ownership of their communities and teach them skills that will help them take a leading role in transforming unloved areas and nurturing them into beautiful spaces that everybody can enjoy and where wildlife can flourish.

Around and Around

The project is for young people whose life experiences to date substantially limit their future opportunities and this project aims to address those limiting factors.

Aik Saath

Aik Saath, which means ‘Together as one’ in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, is a group of young people working together to build peace within the Asian communities of Slough. They tackle racism and conflict through peer-led training and facilitation.

T.E.A.M (Together Everybody Achieves More) Goodies in Hoodies DVD

A film made by young people to celebrate and promote the difference that volunteering makes in their community - Together Everybody Achieves More!

Children's Council North Tyneside

Community youth project getting involved and having a say on issues that matter.

Don't Judge Us

We aim to improve the image of young people in the media.

Bollygood Show

Young people recruiting and engaging people from the diverse communities in Croydon to come together in sharing dance.

'Inspiration' Inclusive Youth Theatre

2010 REGIONAL FINALIST Inspiration is an Inclusive group that caters for anyone regardless of ability - we aim to bring together young people from all backgrounds with and without learning difficulties, mobility difficulties and hearing/visual impairments to work together to show our local community through theatrical projects, that no-one should ever be left out!

Raising Aspirations in Manchester

2010 REGIONAL FINALIST To provide a first-rate performing arts service to children aged 7-16 within inner city Manchester and help empower those with little/ no confidence and challenge negative mindsets to achieve great heights and raise ambitions for younger generations within the local community through teamwork, development, participation and involvement.

North Tyneside Children in Care Council

A forum of young people who meet regularly to discuss and share views of being looked after, and feed into decision makers in North Tyneside to ensure services reflect what young people in care need.

Friday Night Project

2010 REGIONAL FINALIST A positive influence and great opportunity for the other young people in the area!

Trash Army

Young people provide litter campaigns that is aimed at working with residents organisations to raise awareness of environmental issues /recycling etc.

Bolt FM

A youth-led community radio station in the north-east of Glasgow.

Northside Youth Panel

The Northside Youth Panel is made up of a diverse group of young individuals from across North London, who act as advocates for children and young people who otherwise would have no voice.

All the Trimmings

Sporting surfaces created by the Witham community, for the Witham community

Back to the Future

A film project by young people from Carrickfergus YMCA and PAKT looking back at the loyalist and para-military history of their estate through teenagers’ eyes, and forward to building an inclusive, shared future for everyone in Northern Ireland.

All Of Us

2010 REGIONAL FINALIST A peer led initiative, we are a group of home educated students creating meaningful opportunities for ourselves and others, focusing on sports and the arts, and about to embark on a media project to challenge the perceptions of home education.

Xplore Peer Mentoring

Peer mentoring is about young people supporting other young people through issues that may be effecting their lives, its about giving them support to feel that they are valued members of society and make them more confident individuals.

LB360

LB360 trains young people in Southwark who are NEET as theatre makers and workshop leaders, they tour interactive theatre workshops to schools and youth clubs.

Kidzaware

Kidzaware is Equality Innovative Challenging Inspiring and Positive

Bands in the 'Briggs

A rock concert for aspiring local bands for an audience of local rock fans.

Gecko

Gecko helps young people with activities and training to keep them aware and safe in day to day activites.

S.S.O.I.L. Group

SSOIL (sewing seeds of inspiration locally) is an eco friendly, environmental group.

Makin' It Happen

Makin’ It Happen (MIH) is the youth forum for Industrial Dwellings Society (Housing social landlord IDS) ensuring that young people and their views are represented at every level of IDS.

Get Down Dance

A youth led dance project for young people

V.E.R.V.E. (valuing everyones right to varied experiences)

The project offers a safe relaxed social setting where young people of the area can access advice on lots of issues e.g.Housing,Sexual health, drugs and alcohol,l.g.b.t. safe space,anti social behaviour and are also involved in a multi agency approach to everything they do.

5th Halifax Drum & Bugle corps

A marching band set up from scratch by two teenagers.

Oi! Magazine

A magazine by and for young people.

Making a Difference

Young people improving the local environment

Muslim Youth Helpline

A peer support helpine for young Muslims, giving emotional support to callers on sensitive issues such as homosexuality, substance abuse and mental health problems.

Kotchin

Kotchin, in case you're wondering, is north London slang for chilling. It suggests a place where you can relax, be safe and not worry. Some people have that at home, many don't. Kotchin provides not so much a place but more a way of life that welcomes and values people in all their diversity.

Kosovars in Barrow

Increasing cultural understanding through a bi-lingual magazine.

HEN's Theatre Company

Using dramatic performance tackle issues faced by young people such as stranger awareness, drug abuse, bullying and puberty.

Castlehead High School Paired Reading Club

A programme buddying senior students with junior students to help them with reading and social skills.

CAN Group (Changing Attitudes Now)

A sense of belonging is one of the most basic of all human needs. With prejudices still surrounding those with mental illness, however, it can often feel like a lonely world.

Banchory Skate Park

A skate park created by young people.

Lund Park Youth Project

Empowering young Pakistani and Bangladeshi people to overcome prejudice and improve life for themselves and the community.

Castlemilk Youth Voice Group

Young people determined to make a positive contriubution in their community and have more of a say on issues that affect them.

Raffi (Respect All Fans in Football Initiative)

A football coaching scheme breaking down fears of racism and helping local ethnic minorities enjoy playing and watching football.

Kemsley Youth House

Kemsley Youth House provides a safe environment for young people to meet.

Youth Liaison Volunteers

A peer education project working with young clubbers.

Nil by Mouth

Tackling sectarianism in Scotland.

Morph4us

2010 REGIONAL FINALIST Regenerative artwork created by young people, breaking down barriers with the local community.

Lives not Knives

Gangs ruin lives. Lives not Knives is dedicated to showing young people they have other options. We want to stop the younger ones before they get caught up in gang life, and help gang members get out before it’s too late.

AWAAZ Youth Project

The AWAAZ Youth Project in Hounslow uses drama to address very serious issues. Involvement also has enabled the young people to develop their self-esteem and confidence, and to control their emotions while also understand serious issues that affect the local community.

Ekta

The word ‘Ekta’ means unity in Hindi which is the theme that lies at the heart of this group, which raises awareness of issues surrounding race through celebrating cultural diversity.

Jackass Youth Theatre

The Jackass Youth Theatre, set up by Jack Drum Arts in rural County Durham, uses creative arts as the basis for empowering young people and has grown from their need for positive, fun and engaging activities.

Harold Hill Youth Action Group

The Harold Hill Youth Action Group in Essex has helped give young people a voice within their community as well as proactively build community cohesion. The young people involved are engaging with issues that affect the local community and are helping support their own personal self development.

SAFE Project

Over 30 young people in Sparkhill are actively and proudly contributing to SAFE, a project enabling them to express opinions and critique services and events that impact on their lives and neighbourhoods. These young people are involved with the production of a magazine, which focuses on the diverse range of issues that affect them.

LGBT Youth Volunteers

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Youth Volunteers acts as a positive resource and support base for the thousands of young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people within Scotland.

Stroud Rural Peer Education Project

The Stroud Rural Peer Education Project was initiated by young people to act as a self-support group in which they could discuss the issues affecting them including substance abuse.

Stonebridge Road Estate Youth Group

The Stonebridge Road Estate Youth Group aims to give a real voice to young people, raise awareness of the issues that affect them and improve their facilities whilst making the local community a safer place to live and work.

City Angels

City Angels raises awareness of bullying and supports vulnerable young people in and out of school, through peer mentoring, role playing and group exercises.

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.

Springhill Community Radio Project

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.

TIZ - The Inclusion Zone

An interactive adolescent room in a hospice, designed and developed by young people living with progressive life limiting medical conditions

The Opal Project

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.

Dreamers

A support group of young asylum seekers, refugees and British people challenging prejudice.

Rathbone Outreach Project

A project providing training, education, employment and volunteering opportunities and promoting dialogue and cohesion between the local communities (White, Somalian and Bangladeshi)

Mitalee Summer School Project

A project providing a range of social, educational and recreational activities and opportunities to young people in Bury Park, Luton

Sixty Plus Intergenerational Project

A charity creating mutually beneficial partnerships between younger and older people.

TNT - Teen Network Torbay

A project addressing issues identified by young people in Torbay.

Aldbourne Youth Council & BMX Track

We formed our youth council to improve facilities for young people, starting with creating a BMX track and youth shelter.

Gateshead Young Women's Outreach Project

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.

It Happens

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.

Let's Be Positive

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.

Nang! Magazine

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.

Soul and Fame

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.

Truancy Awareness Project

We raise awareness of the consequences of truancy and non-school attendance, by engaging with children and young people using drama productions.

Venue

We are a youth initiated, youth run group supporting the needs of young people in our community, those from other churches and youth from Bulgaria.

Youth Action

We celebrate and highlight the contribution of South Asian veterans in World War II, and bring together young people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Shared Vision

We provide services and facilities for young women aged 11 to 20 in order to create a better community, better relationships and better lives.

Picture Box Youth Cinema

We have developed a youth cinema at an underused community space that we are developing into a social enterprise run by young people.

Just Smile

We are an anti-bullying project for young people, with information and advice in both English and Portuguese.

Friendly Faces

We are a school based scheme providing support for any student who needs it, including victims of bullying.

FACE (Fighting Against Child Exploitation)

We strive to provide young people with a voice; one which enables them to fight against their own exploitation and that of others.

Dorchester SNAP Nights

We are a group of young people running a safe nightclub for 11–16 year olds, giving safety information and advice.

Community Challenge

We work to actively improve and develop the physical environment around our local estate and, in turn, the relationships among residents.

Castlederg Youth Forum

We promote health, well-being and social acceptance among young people in Castlederg and the surrounding areas.

Youth 4 Youth

Youth 4 Youth are a group of young people who organise regular gigs and major annual music festival for young people.

Youthlife

Youthlife helps young people who have experienced traumatic loss to work through painful emotions of grief in a safe, supported and confidential environment.

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The Philip Lawrence Awards 2011 are open for nominations!

Celebrate the difference that young people are making in your community and nominate a project now for the 2011 Philip Lawrence Awards.

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Jul 27, 2011 - 09:06 AM

Your new challenge: help improve your neighbourhoods

This year, the Awards will focus on young people leaving prison and improving high-crime areas

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Jun 20, 2011 - 10:12 PM

Young people are the stars of the show

VIPs including Sir Trevor McDonald, Will Young and government ministers celebrated with our young winners at the 2010 Awards ceremony.

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Jan 12, 2011 - 11:39 AM

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