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LIFE CHANGING ADVENTURE

LIFE CHANGING ADVENTURE. Reaching out to excluded youth. INTRODUCTION Scouting in the UK Youth Services in the UK What do we know? Our Strategy Case Study What funding should achieve. LIFE CHANGING ADVENTURE. Scouting in the UK: Membership approaching 600,000 in UK Scouting

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LIFE CHANGING ADVENTURE

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  1. LIFE CHANGING ADVENTURE Reaching out to excluded youth

  2. INTRODUCTION • Scouting in the UK • Youth Services in the UK • What do we know? • Our Strategy • Case Study • What funding should achieve LIFECHANGINGADVENTURE

  3. Scouting in the UK: • Membership approaching 600,000 in UK Scouting • Almost half a million young people • Over 115,000 adult volunteers • UK membership has grown for the last 11 years • Scouting has its biggest impact and is valued most in the most deprived parts of the UK. LIFE CHANGING ADVENTURE

  4. Youth services in the UK • Cuts to youth services over the last 6 years • £40m Youth Investment fund • National Citizen Service- £1.2bn • £500 unit cost for 4 years of Scouting LIFECHANGINGADVENTURE

  5. WHAT DO WE KNOW? LIFE CHANGING ADVENTURE

  6. Perceptions: Young People’s Participation Poorer students access less non-formal education. Scouting covers them all.

  7. Perceptions: Young People’s Support Significant minority want to take part in Scouting through school, more so if from a poorer background.

  8. In Practice: Impact on Young People Scouts reported more confidence in all character traits tested.

  9. OUR STRATEGY LIFE CHANGING ADVENTURE

  10. Better Prepared for a Brighter Future • Bring the benefits of Scouting to 200 of the most deprived areas of the UK by 2018. • Recruit more adult volunteers • Establish new groups • Support local volunteers to develop Scouting in their area LIFE CHANGING ADVENTURE

  11. CASE STUDY 1: • PAGE HALL • SHEFFIELD LIFE CHANGING ADVENTURE

  12. PAGE HALL SHEFFIELD

  13. Page Hall, Sheffield • Deprived Area • Slovakia join the EU in 2004- Many Roma make Sheffield their home • In the News: multi-national conflict, potential riots, gang warfare, burglaries • Children in the streets with little to do- 90% English not first language • Many receiving free school meals LIFE CHANGING ADVENTURE

  14. Page Hall: Project Outline • Promote community cohesion by offering scouting to as many young people as possible. • Make scouting as inclusive and affordable as possible • Increase participation of Roma and other deprived minorities • Government Funding • The Scout Association worked with the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and the YUF (Youth United Foundation) to identify UK Communities in need of support LIFECHANGINGADVENTURE

  15. Page Hall, Sheffield • 222nd Sheffield (Whiteways) • Relationship built with community • Venue- local school provided free access • Adult recruitment- parents • Young People- Open night • Flexing the Model- timing, subs, uniform, badges (on tote bags) LIFE CHANGING ADVENTURE

  16. Page Hall, Sheffield • Results • This inclusive and diverse group is now sustainable with • 18 young people in Beavers • 22 young people in Cubs • A committed team of 11 adults supporting the group (6 different nationalities) LIFE CHANGING ADVENTURE

  17. WHAT FUNDING SHOULD ACHIEVE: • Targeted at areas that can make the biggest difference • From and owned by the community • Flexing of programme and format (straight after school, uniform bank etc) • Scouting is an extremely cost effective and sustainable way to do this

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  19. “It is fundamental to work with all different backgrounds, cultures, ethnic minorities and religions to ensure that all our scout groups are ‘as diverse as the communities in which we live” Sian Bagshaw

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