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What it's all about
Inspire the Youth is a community interest company based in Greenwich council aimed at inspiring the secondary school students to aspire for more. The company will seek to continually form partnerships with local schools, reputable organisations, resources and personnel. Inspire the Youth’s goal is to motivate the youth and expose them to relevant resources in alliance to their academic work, so they can become leaders of tomorrow. Our program will promote inter-class friendship, strong interpersonal skills and reassert in our students, the confidence and capability to achieve great things in the future. Encouraging students to take responsibilities for their personal development from a young age, we believe is vital to having a good prospect in the future and also inserting in them a sense of pride and accomplishment.
In our society today, too many people have become accustomed to just getting by due to the fact that there are little or no high achievers around them. Inspire the youth believes in using the relatable stories to motivate students. Not being born with a silver spoon or into a progressive environment should not be allowed to suppress the talent of the potential, doctors, lawyers, prime ministers, pastor e.t.c of tomorrow.
Inspire the Youth is a program that is in direct response to the growing number of young students that are unable to compete with students from a higher achieving community due to lack of motivation, opportunities, finances and knowledge and also students that are falling through the cracks at school. The goal of the program is to identify these students with the aid of their school, mentor them through secondary school education till university graduation, widen their horizon through extracurricular activities opportunities, introduce them to progressive circles and offer them consistent opportunities to learn and hone their soft skills. Inspire to Aspire.
What's needed to make it a reality
We've organised several events with secondary schools in Greenwich council, we now need help to promoting the events, building a website, recruiting mentors for the students that will sign up from all the schools we visit, secure more motivational speakers, recruit inspired people to join the team, roll out the scheme to more schools, promote our idea through local newspapers and also secure funding that will cover expenses
Comments
I'm Sarah from the Junction49 Helpdesk, here to support you in turning your idea into reality.
This sounds like a brilliant project which you've clearly done a lot of work on already. Hopefully I can point you in the right direction in answer to some of your questions.
Regarding funding there are definitely places you can apply to for funding. It may that you apply to different places to fund different elements of the project. I think the best to look at though is www.unltd.org.uk. They have lots of different awards schemes and it doesn't matter if you're not sure how much money you're going to need for all of the different aspects they will be able to support you to work all of that out before you submit an application to them.
In terms of a website, you can set one up in the interim for free before you receive any funding. Quite a few of our young people on Junction49 have done this and you may be quite interested in this one in particular: http://www.themakemusicyoursproject.mfbiz.com/#
There's a comments section for volunteers to register their interest and it seems like quite an easy way to set something up without have to put any money into it. If you scroll to the bottom of that page there's a link you can follow to set up your own if you're interested.
If you want to get your own domain name too, there's a cheap site called www.heartinternet.co.uk
If you want to discuss more indepth about the mentoring programme and how to run it in terms of training and support then you could always come in for a chat with us at our offices in London Bridge. Junction49 is one project run by TimeBank, a national volunteering charity and we run a number of mentoring projects so have quite a lot of experience about how to run this. I just thought having a face-to-face meeting to discuss all the ins and outs might be useful. If you think this would help just let me know and we can arrange something.
Here's an organisation here too which you may be interested as their goals seem to be fairly similar to yours http://www.elevationnetworks.co.uk/default.aspx?id=2
I hope that helps, feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or would like to discuss this further.
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There is mentoring opportunities right now so you can start from there. Depending on your contacts with Liverpool John Moores Uni, we could put you in charge of recruiting a few mentors from there. Let me know if you'll like to be a mentor so I can send you our application form. Thanks Report Abuse
How is everything going with setting this up? I just found out about a really good resource which may be brilliant for this project. The organisation is called Mentor Well, but they provide free management tool for mentoring and there is an online mentoring functionality which would help to combat any safeguarding issues around handing out people's email addresses.
You can find out more about it here: http://www.mentorwell.com/index.php
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My name is Margareet and i work alongside Sarah on the Junction49 helpdesk. How is the idea coming along?
There is a new idea on the site called Online Mentoring and i think that your knowledge and passion would be of much inspiration. I have told the founder of the idea Peter, about Inspire the youth and suggested he get in touch, should you hear from him.
Any advice/support you offer would definitely assist him in turning his idea into a reality.
Margareet
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