Ellesmere Youth Project
TfR CASE STUDY: ELLESMERE YOUTH PROJECT
The Ellesmere Youth Project is a detached youth work project working in the Ellesmere and Carwood area. They work with young people aged between 10-18 in the Burngreave area, using detached youth work and centre-based sessions. They also offer one-to-one individual support for young people.
The situation:
The Project Co-ordinator, Jenny Tibbles, was already aware of TfR and tells why she contacted them: ‘The Ellesmere Youth Project has been in existence for 10 years and we needed to try to strengthen and re-energise everyone involved in the project – both new and existing management committee members and the project workers, including volunteers. We knew that we needed to think about the future of the project and the direction that it was going to take, and felt that we needed someone to help us with this, so we decided to seek out help from TfR.
How TfR helped
‘A TfR adviser had an initial meeting with us and we all agreed that we needed to do a visionary and scoping session’. The agreed aim of that session was: ‘To revitalise the vision and strategic aims of Ellesmere Youth Project, to bring together the team and build a shared vision of the project’.
What was particularly valued about the support received?
Jenny continued: ‘The TfR adviser came along and facilitated a most valuable event where we developed both a vision statement and a forward plan. The event also enabled us to come together as a group and build relationships - and we came away with ‘energy, enthusiasm and commitment’. I thought that we had lost that image, but having an external person there to facilitate effectively, helped to bring it out, and it also left everyone free to participate in some well planned sessions’!
What have been the results?
‘We have recently appointed a trainee youth development worker for five years and we are looking to consolidate and develop our work further, eg by taking resources and informal education on to the streets in a better way. We are also looking to run more specific programmes for young people, like self esteem, etc for women and developing new work around conflict resolution.
We are only a small voluntary/community project and sustainability is a big problem for us. We now need to look at developing a funding strategy, and we will be contacting TfR to help us on our way with this.
To find out more, contact TfR or Jenny Tibbles, Ellesmere Youth Project, Burngreave, Sheffield
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