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

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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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Shape Your Gen is a mix of live youth voice events for 11-24 year olds & key indicating questions drawn from local youth organisational youth voice groups.

Emily Coles

Project Lead

Emily is the lead coordinator for Shape Your Gen, alongside working as Youth Projects Lead with Ruff & Ruby Urban Youth Charity. 

info@sotyc.co.uk

07494 150413

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

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07812 774 632

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