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Suppport Services from Young Lancashire
 
“Helping you achieve more for Young People”
 
We offer a range of specialist organisational planning, workforce development and fundraising services to voluntary and community groups and organisations, to enable them to improve, or establish, high quality work with young people, through a programme we have called LevelUp. Support services include:
  • Provision of Youth Work qualifications (Introductory Level and VRQ Level 2) to staff and volunteers working in your group or organisation.
  • Support in developing opportunities for delivery of accredited activities with young people.
  • Guidance and assistance to support you in linking your work to quality and youth work standards, so that you will be able to demonstrate safe, effective and accredited work with young people. This could be from a basic level to a higher level, dependent on the size and staff resources of your group or organisation.
  • Provision of support and training on personnel, financial and organisational planning to enhance your ability in achieving your aims for work with young people and secure ongoing funding.
How do you access support through the LevelUp Programme?
 
LevelUp is available to all voluntary, community and faith organisations and groups across Lancashire who work with and support young people – primarily 13-19 year olds. Groups must first Register, with the network to access support through LevelUp, indeed Registration (which is free of charge) is the first step on the capacity building process. All registred groups then recieve a 1:1 assessment to identify particular support needs. Register here.
 
In addition to ensuring a quality provision for young people by being able to demonstrate recognised quality provision; appropriately trained staff/volunteers; and quality accredited provision for young people, groups and organisations will be in an enhanced position in the future to secure funding from Children’s Trusts, schools offering extended services and other funding providers.

LevelUp will be useful to a range of groups and organisations including those which:
 
➢    Are newly established or recently engaged in activities with young people
➢    Wish to develop and train their staff and volunteers
➢    Want to expand their services to young people, and/or attract further funding
➢    Wish to enhance the provision to young people including opportunities for accredited activities for young people.

LevelUp is being supported by funding from the Big Lottery BASIS programme. LevelUp is also complemented by further support services funded through Lancashire County Council's Central Gateway Grant scheme.
 
The Central Gateway programme provides acces to services such as CRB checks and training and development opportunities such as Equality and Diversity Training, First Aid and Youth Participation. 
 

Background:

Young Lancashire's aim is to support and develop high quality voluntary youth work and educational opportunities for all young people in Lancashire. We have a successful track record of providing infrastructure support and advisory services to voluntary and community organisations across the county of Lancashire. Services include: quality standards; accredited training for volunteer youth workers and young people, together with organisational support and development. We currently support a network of over 140 registered VCFS groups and organisations working with children and young people. We have initiated and managed several innovative youth-led projects over the past few years, which have established opportunities for young people to participate, and resulted in the creation of new independent locally owned organisations.

                     

 

Supported by and working in partnership with; Lancashire County Council and Big Lottery Fund.