this is an exciting vinvolved funded project, which recruits, trains and supports young people aged 16-25 to be effective young volunteers ... able to deliver sports and dance programmes in local groups, clubs and projects for children and young people.

Sport and dance are global passions of young people. They have been proven time and time again to be very effective ways to engage young people and change lives. Between April 2008 and March 2011, we will deliver eleven locally  based projects in different areas. Each project will see a  minimum of 25 young people trained using the nationally recognised British Sports Trust Community Sports Leaders Award or the Community Dance Leaders Awards. Once trained, the young volunteers will undertake minimum 30 hour placements in local community based groups where they will intrioduce and develop new active lifewstyle programmes with children and other young people.

The programme is open to all young people in the right age range and with the desire to train and make a difference to other young people through sports and dance. We particularly want to encourage young people who do not usually tend to volunteer. This includes young people who are not in education, empl,oyment or training and young people from black and ethnic minority communities.

We will keep our local project list up to date (see below) so you can see where we are currently recruiting and what we are up to. We will also include stories and news from the programme. So, if you are aged 16-25 and you think you might be interested in this programme, you can email nicola@kentyouth.org or emma@kentyouth.org or call them on 01634 281841

If you are a local community children and young people's group which is interested in receiving young trained volunteers from this programme, please also contact Nicola or Emma.

summary of our projects:

Project 1 - Medway. Project started in June 08. 25 young people are meeting weekly at Strood Youth Centre.

Project 2 - Tonbridge. Project started in September 08. 

Project 3 - Folkestone.  - recruiting now for a start in October 08!

links

Aged 16-25 and in to volunteering, go to www.vinspired.com

Find our more about v the national youth volunteering charity and its vinvolved programme which is funding activeyouth www.wearev.com