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SHAPEYOURGEN

YOUTH PROJECTS OR PRODUCTS within the SOTYC are 'YOUTH LED & YOUTH FED’ – being CO-DESIGNED with young people which we feel is vital to any project to foster

OWNERSHIP & PARTICIPATION.

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‘SHAPE YOUR GEN’ is our citywide youth voice forum as a collective where young people represent their communities.

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Shape Your Gen supports the citywide youth strategy with Stoke-On-Trent city council & local trusted providers.​​​

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"YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO ‘STAND FOR SOMETHING, RATHER THAN FALL FOR EVERYTHING’."

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Over the last 4 years, we have conducted research & feedback with young people in local high schools, & the community. Please see below some of the highlights that inform our purpose-driven projects.

YOUTH VOICE...

WE DO WANT:

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  • Places to go, & something to do

  • Instant mental health support

  • Digital Support

  • People who ‘get us ‘ (Lived experience leaders),

  • Stuff on after school, at night somewhere to go, something to do, get me ‘off road’ 

  • Make new friends / get me out of my crib

  • Music stuff

  • Gym

  • Boxing

  • Cool hip-hop nights

  • Gaming

  • Sport

  • Computers

  • Art space

  • Somewhere I can launch my own fashion range

  • Someone to help you when your head falls off

  • Cool equipment like youth club stuff

  • Somewhere to show your talents off

  • Get job skills

  • Cool café

  • Junk golf

  • Geeks library

  • Somewhere to go with my baby so I’m not left out,

  • People to talk to, be yourself

  • Girls' area where you don’t have to put up with lads' s****.

  • To know what I can do when & how easy to get to that doesn’t cost much


WE DON’T WANT:

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  • Old community & Church halls

  • Ripped pool tables

  • People in suits telling us about our lives

  • Somewhere that isn’t our own

  • Like where you can’t graft it up or make a noise

  • Somewhere that’s cheesy

  • Crap music

  • Broken equipment

  • 'Only once a week cos’ it’s not enough

  • People telling you to be quiet & chattin about things you don’t ‘get’

  • Not bein real

  • People being racist

Young people, 11-18yrs, across Stoke-on-Trent said...

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