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Voluntary Sector Youth Organisations. What is youth work?. Focusing on young people – on their informal learning and personal and social development . Young people chose to come and get involved Joining together in groups Friendly and informal youth workers, who act with integrity - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Voluntary Sector Youth Organisations

Voluntary Sector YouthOrganisations

Page 2: Voluntary Sector Youth Organisations

What is youth work?

• Focusing on young people – on their informal learning and personal and

social development.• Young people chose to come and get

involved• Joining together in groups

• Friendly and informal youth workers, who act with integrity

• Building trusting relationships• It’s also effective and low cost!

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Targeted work

• Young people are referred/ have to attend– becomes compulsory

• Young people can be seen as ‘problems’• Youth workers end up being focussed on

targets and achievement– not about the relationship with young people.

• Short-term work• Trusting relationships!

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What is the ‘voluntary sector’?

• Organisations that don’t work for profit

• Includes: charities, community groups, churches, mosques, other faith groups, social enterprises...

• Independent• Interconnected with statutory

services• Not just volunteers.

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Show us the money?

• Grants – from government and local authority• Grants from independent trust funds• Donations and fundraising• Contracts – to do a specific piece of • work• Selling stuff! – goods or services.

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Challenges • A lot of voluntary sector agencies will be

affected by government cuts too• More competition for existing resources• Haven’t necessarily got the capacity to fill the

gaps left by statutory services• If we take government funding we become

less independent• Market now open to private sector or ‘large

out of town’ agencies

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For further information:

• http://www.indefenceofyouthwork.org.uk/wordpress/

• http://www.ncvys.org.uk/• http://www.cywu.org.uk/• http://www.cywu.org.uk/assets/content_page

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