social action in your community

Full Effect


Full Effect is a project in st anns which works with young leaders and primary schools around st'anns and the main aim of the project is to stop young people from being involved in violent acts or crimes by mentoring and early intervention. the project also helps young people gain new skill. Full Effect made a short film called Guillemot. Prince Harry attended the premier of the short film which took part at the corner house cinema, prince Harry also went to st anns to watch a football match and even took part. the community has shown a decrease in crime and a lot of the local youth have started going to the local centre where the go to the studio and create music.


http://full-effect.org/
One Nottingham- crime and drug partnership
Crime and drugs partnership is made up of a broad spectrum of agencies from the Police and Fire Service to the Local Authority and One Nottingham, along with groups and individuals who work directly with the community.


http://www.onenottingham.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=16874
Nottinghamshire YMCA - Shakespeare Street Hostel
they help single homeless people from the age of 18 to the average of 30 they also help convicted people who have nowhere to live. The project also helps drug uses get their life together and they get mentors that come to them to check up on how they are and what they need to improve their life and they also help the people make money or help them get a job.
http://www.homelessuk.org/details.asp?id=HO1002250
world mental health day
In Nottingham the POM (protect our minds) decided to take it to Broad street and did a flash mob to raise awareness on the 10 of October. the flash mob consisted of 25 dancers and it was led  Choreographed by professional dancer Molly May-Gardiner, she led dancers and samba percussionists in what was a five minute dancing frenzy. The grand sum of £180 was raised for Mind charity in just ten minutes. Other local companies involved were The Lofthouse, who gave over their space to allow the group to practice, and Broadway cinema who supplied the sound system on the day.
http://www.leftlion.co.uk/photos.cfm/title/photos--world-mental-health-day-flashmob/id/519


what I could do?
the first thing I'm thinking of doing is volunteering at a charity shop where I would sale things such as clothes etc but I don't really know how I can get this such thing out there and get people involved in the action. on the other hand I think I could try to get people to give their unwanted clothes to charity.


the other thing I could do is an idea that could get a lot of young people in the community get involved and I was thinking of starting a after score football centre like what some YMCA's have but I don't have them in my area which made this idea a great idea and I was thinking every Friday night all the kids would go to the local centre which doesn't get used anymore an im willing to volunteer and get young people involved and it will really help people to stay out of trouble.

Matthew Otubu

#I will is a national campaign that was lunched in 2013 aims to make social action part of life for as many 10 to 20 year-olds as possible by the year 2020. A key goal of the #iwill campaign is to enable organisations to understand and recognise high quality in youth social action..The prime mister, David Cameron has backed the movement and he had this to say “This campaign is above party politics – it’s about believing in our young people and backing them to do the right thing. We want more young people to have the opportunity to serve others and reap the benefits that this brings." the campaign is made to make a positive change in young people’s lives by impacting their local communities such as after school clubs and etc.



The people involved in the campaign are Dame Julia cleverdon is a British charity worker who served for 16 years as Chief Executive of Business in the Community, one of the Prince's Charities of Charles and Amanda Jordan is a founder of Corporate Citizenship.

Matthew Otubu 19 years old is one of the few young people trying to make an impact in his local city Newcastle his social journey is really wide and very impressive for some one of his age. he has been a Youth Councillor for Newcastle City Council, a Member of Youth Parliament for Newcastle Central, Head Event Organiser at the European Youth Parliament UK and part of the Youth Leadership Team at Citizens UK. I’ve campaigned on education and transport, giving a keynote speech at the House of Commons in 2013, and supporting Make Your Mark. He’s also a big campaigner on healthcare issues, and his been part of the Northern Clinical Senate Assembly for NHS England, and the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. I also support charities as Youth Commissioner and Graduate Ambassador for the National Citizen Service, and Children’s Champion for UNICEF UK.

The campaign has had a huge in impact all over the country because there is so many leaders based all over uk and in many local areas and the hard work to put in is showing by the PM and other political leaders taking notice. One a few impacts the campaign has had is bullying as 17 year old Callie Turner on a TV documentary "bullied" with Jordie Marsh on channel 5 and the show went to talk about how she was bullied and how she got over it and they went on to create and anti-bullying team in the school Callie attended.

My opinion on what the #iwill campaign is that I feel its a amazing campaign because anyone can get involved and it really focuses on the young people and this is good because it make life easier for the next generation on people and they don't have to face the same problems and they campaign has a lot financial backing do resources are there if needed.