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Youth Development

The goals for Youth Development

  • Empower young people to make a difference.
  • Introduce young people to new experiences while working to increase their confidence, and ambition and help them realise their potential.
  • Support young people to set up and run projects, including arranging workshops and shared activities to bring young people together.
  • Advocate for the interests, influences and issues of young people.
  • Develop positive and engaging activities for young people to learn about themselves, their skills, attitudes, values and knowledge.

The things our Youth Development Worker supports around Angus

  • Saltire Awards
  • Finding opportunities for young volunteers
  • Finding young volunteers for organisations
  • Supporting the Kirriemuir Friday Nite Project
  • Working with schools, 16+ and DYW to support students into volunteering.

Meet your Youth Development Worker, Adhamh!

Adhamh

Email: Adhamh@voluntaryactionangus.org.uk

What are the Saltire Awards?

The Saltire Awards are the Scottish Government’s way of celebrating, recognising and rewarding the commitment, contribution and achievements of young volunteers in Scotland, aged between 12 and 25.

Young people gain nationally recognised certificates, signed by Scottish Government Ministers, for the different amounts of volunteering they do.

Get certificates (signed by Scottish Government Ministers!)

  • The Challenge: for those getting started in volunteering through team challenges
  • The Approachfor when you’ve reached 10 and 25 hours of volunteering
  • The Ascent: for when you’ve reached 50, 100, 200 or even 500 hours of volunteering
  • The Summit: for those that have made an outstanding contribution to volunteering

Why you might want to volunteer?

  • Gain new skills and experience that will look great on your CV and could help you at school and/or work
  • Meet new people and make new friends and connections
  • Make a difference to individual people, communities and the environment
  • Have fun! You will have the chance to get involved in variety of activities that might not have done before

Ready to get started?

Individuals can register for Saltire Awards here. You will be able to submit your hours and once approved, receive your certificates online.
 
Organisations can register for Saltire Awards here. Once registered, we will approve you as a Saltire Awards admin. After you’ve been approved, you will be able to produce certificates for your volunteers.
 
Any questions? Please use the contact form below and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

#YouthVIP

Project Scotland, YouthLink Scotland and Young Scot are partnering to deliver #YouthVIP

As part of the new National Volunteering Framework, the Scottish Government commissioned ProjectScotland and Young Scot to create a youth volunteering design team – #YouthVIP. The group formed recommendations to encourage more young people to volunteer and to improve the experience of those who currently give their time to their communities.

Early in 2020, the Scottish Government announced they would accept all #YouthVIP’s recommendations. Since then, the pandemic has shone an even brighter light on the role that young people play in volunteering, social renewal and civil society. In response, the Scottish Government is supporting a consortium of Project Scotland, YouthLink Scotland and Young Scot to partner and drive forward the #YouthVIP recommendations.

The partnership will help to reduce the pandemic’s impact on communities across Scotland – by significantly increasing the number of high-quality volunteering opportunities available to young people. This will create more opportunities for young people to develop their skills and passions and forge career pathways and vocations through quality volunteering opportunities – available and accessible to all young people, no matter their location or circumstances. Also, volunteering and social action has known benefits for emotional wellbeing, and is particularly important as the pandemic has impacted many young people’s mental health.

  • Project Scotland will work directly with the third sector at local level across Scotland and encourage partners to embrace the #YouthVIP recommendations. This will help to increase the number of opportunities and young people taking part in volunteering in Scotland.
  • #iWill Scotland and YouthLink Scotland will run a scoping exercise focused on creating a nationwide access fund to support volunteering opportunities in local communities. They will also support Young Scot to deliver the legacy group of young people to safeguard the implementation of the recommendations, whilst working with partners to develop local area advisory schemes to promote volunteering in local areas.
  • Young Scot will create a legacy group of young people from all backgrounds and communities to oversee the recommendations’ implementation. This group will include young people who created the recommendations and young people new to the project. They will co-design their group’s purpose and remit and feed into planning across the entire #YouthVIP programme. A mid-term ambition will also be to launch an annual youth-led volunteering summit focussed on diversity and inclusion.

“As someone involved in the original #YouthVIP report, I'm glad to see young people and their volunteering efforts are back high up on the agenda, especially during the backdrop of Covid-19, a period where young people have become champions across their communities.”

“I personally feel that volunteering has helped me massively; it has given me a great support network of friends and developed my confidence. I think young people need these experiences now more than ever. I am so proud to have been part of the fantastic group that created these recommendations and I know all of those involved are too.”

The Friday Nite Project (FNP)


The Kirriemuir Friday Nite Project (FNP), is held at Websters Sports centre, Kirriemuir and is open to all Websters High School pupils.  

We are open every Friday, term time from 6.30pm-9pm.

We have football, badminton, the Wii, the inflatable Point Scorer, or you can come along to sit and chat to friends!

Contact us!

Do you know a young person who’d benefit from taking part in #YouthVIP or interested in receiving Saltire Awards? Fill out the form below and we'll get the locality worker in your area to contact you