The aim of the Hope project was to give 6 young hopefuls the opportunity to gain skills, experience and knowledge by undergoing different training programmes and work practice. The skills, experience and knowledge acquired are transferable and could be implemented in many different environments and work roles.
The Hope project has run for 3 months and has now come to an end. The project gave the 6 young hopefuls ongoing training throughout this period.
A few examples of the training are:
Introduction to youth work
football coaching
Health and safety
Drugs/alcohol awareness
First aid
Team building
Interview skills
Cultural awareness
Confidence building
Time management
Peer mentoring
Planning and delivering
Denzil Ramsey and Shaun Dawson are 2 of the 6 people benefiting from the Hope project and in their own words here’s what they had to say about their experience.
Denzil Ramsey:
“Hope was an excellent idea and a good way for me to get my career started.It helped me boost myconfidence when working with children and adults.
“I feel I helped the youth by simply keeping them busy in order to stay off the street, I think they felt they could look up to me which encouraged them to take part. I gained experience on how to work with youth in the street, and did different training to help develop me further during the time of the course.
“I learnt how to plan sessions, half term trips and deliver community events. I think everything was fine and I had a really good time working in the Hope group.”
Shaun Dawson:
“Hope has helped me in many ways. It has helped me build my confidence, to work as part of a team and to gain skills to plan events etc.
“I feel I have helped the community in many ways; Organising activities for young people and playing games with the young people. Hopefully I have been a good role model.
“I now have a lot of planning experience, youth work experience, better team work experience, I have done quite a few training courses including, understanding gun gang culture and knife awareness, child protection, sports leadership and other training. I hope this will better my chances of getting a job. I have really enjoyed working with young people.”
Hope has given both Denzil and Shaun a very positive and encouraging experience. Good luck to both and the rest of the young hopefuls in whatever they choose to do in the future.