The LIFEbeat Youth Leadership Programme
Funding from the 2019 ICAP Charity Day allowed us to run the ICAP Youth Leadership Programme; working with young people to develop their leadership skills and explore the issues that matter most to them.
Naming the issues
Naming the Issues
To set the project in motion, LIFEbeat hosted a day of workshops and discussions, allowing youth leaders to talk about and debate the issues that they felt were most impacting their lives. Having heard from everyone and discussed the common themes, the young people settled on three topics that felt most important to them: identity, mental health and youth violence.
Leading Discussions With Peers
Leading Discussions With Peers
Once the topics had been chosen, LIFEbeat’s Young Leaders were then invited to host workshops and discussion sessions on these topics during our residential summer camp programmes. The workshops proved to be extremely popular, prompting rich discussions and giving our Young Leaders a chance to step up and hold space for their peers. More than 100 young people took part in these sessions.
Creating Resources
Creating Resources
To round off the programme, our Youth Leaders came together for a weekend residential in which they worked to create short films and presentations based on the wide range of discussions and responses to each topic, both from their own perspectives and from those of their peers. These films and presentations were screened for the first time during the LIFEbeat Community Fund evening in front of LIFEbeat community members and donors.