We make it our goal to inspire and encourage young people across Newcastle to be the best version of them selves and exceed expectations.
We strive to make a difference in the local community and young people's lives by delivering outstanding support and opportunity. We encourage young people to join the volunteer programme to gain knowledge and experience to possibly progress on to job opportunities.
We allow young people to gain confidence to make friends by delivering diverse youth sessions where everyone plays a part, and everyone gets involved.
"Building the confidence to grow from a caterpillar to a butterfly"
The projects we deliver are about the young people, we have listened to their needs, ideas, requests, and the communities needs and have built the programme around this. We run free open-access sessions in various areas, which ensures the young people are active, socialising and getting fed in a calm, safe but most of all a FUN environment.
Barnardo’s CEO Lynn Perry MBE, Michelle and young people who have been supported by the charity, will hand in the petition to Number 10 at midday on Thursday 2 March.
More than one in four children in the UK are living in poverty, and the cost-of-living crisis is making this worse as families struggle to pay their bills.
Scotland and Wales have already committed to providing free meals for primary school children and are gradually rolling this out. Barnardo’s wants to ensure those in England aren’t left behind. While children in reception, Years one and two, receive free meals in England, older primary school pupils are currently only eligible to receive them if their families have total earnings below £7,400 per year. This leaves around 800,000 children who are living in poverty but do not qualify for free school meals.
The charity says free school meals for all primary aged children would mean that every child would get at least one nutritious and filling meal a day, whatever they are facing at home. It would also relieve stress and anxiety for children at mealtimes and relieve pressure for families living in poverty. The provision of free school meals has been shown to reduce obesity and improve attainment at school.
"I feel free school meals are so important for a lot of young people, when I was little I relied on free school meals massivly, my mam couldnt afford to give me packed lunches or afford to give me money for lunch. It used to get to me seeing all my friends in school getting pizza slices and bacon sandwiches for snack at break time, I couldn't as I only had a certain amount to afford my dinner, I wouldn't want to think about if I didn't even have the £1.50 for my dinner, pretending your not hungry in school while all your friends are eating was something I don't want any child going through." - Inspire Youth staff member.
In a world where ASB (anti social behaviour) can be common knowledge for young people, it is our responsibility to ask why. The fact is that a lot of young people have northing better to do. A lot of young people come from low income families who cant afford to keep their children entertained all the time so the young people entertain themselves unsupervised.
Inspire Youth have teamed up with the Newcastle United Foundation and have sessions on weekly for young people aged 11-19 years old, this is a great partnership which allows us to provide amazing activities in an outstanding venue.
Taking young people off the streets and providing amazing opportunities, team building exercises, various sport activities, state of the art gaming rooms, group intervention meetings & much more.
INSPIREYOUTH TYNE AND WEAR is a non-profit youth organisation. We work across different areas delivering youth clubs. Our juniors are 5-11 years old, inters 11-14 years old and seniors 14-19 years old. We also deliver several other initiatives such as girls groups (11-16 years old), specialised mentoring, school holiday hubs, and detached/outreach work. We aim to resume our disability inclusive group shortly. All sessions are delivered in a safe, controlled, enriching and productive environment. We have an exceptional good record of providing empowerment, improving wellbeing, social enterprise, and preventing and reducing ASB (anti-social behaviour). Our team assist young people to overcome many issues from adverse childhood experiences, abuse, mental health, NEET (not in education, employment or training), learning difficulties, criminal behaviours and CSE (child sexual exploitation).
We are thriving as an organisation and the services we provide to young people are essential. We ensure children and young people are meeting several aspects of their developmental cycle whilst working with us such as: social, physical and emotional. We are remarkably diverse and adaptable to ensure every child's needs are met. We build confidence and self-belief by giving the young people a voice to express what opportunities they would like to accomplish and encourage them to achieve their aspirations. This then allows the children to grow into integral aspects of their local community.
We run a volunteer and a young volunteer programme which has proven to be immensely successful. It gives the community the opportunity to get involved and be a part of an amazing team. As our young people mature, they naturally develop from attending the youth provision into the volunteering programme. Some of our young volunteers have advanced into paid employment opportunities from building skills such as confidence with the INSPIREYOUTH TYNE AND WEAR team. We work in partnership with many organisations which enhances the opportunities of employment.
Our overall aim is to provide youth-led provision where the young people are developing their personal skills, but most importantly having fun in a safe, empowering environment.
Our CEO Pamela Gill has recently won the Aspire Award from the Guiness-Partnership for Inspire Youths outstanding work in helping young people in local communities and providing opportunities which can change the lives of venerable young people.
