Guerrilla Gardening
The Guerrilla Gardening element of our street based approach consists of workers engaging with young people who have Anti-Social Behaviour Orders or who are on the periphery of participating in anti social behaviour engaging in a process of understanding how their neighbourhood works and finding appropriate spaces to transform into positive areas.
The process of young people tansforming an area with flowers, greenery or vegetables provides young people with the chance to take responsibility for their community and offers the local community with the opportunity to challenge the negative perceptions of young people who have previously been engaging in anti-social behaviour.
Social Education
Workshops / Short Projects
One of workshops includes:
Reducing re-offending, anger management, drugs tier one and two, sexual health, restorative justice, preventing violent extremism, domestic violence, thinking skills.
Short Project Work includes:
Alternative Education - supporting young people not in school.
Anti Bullying Work - training, activities, buddying.
Preventing the Violence - looking at the impact of knife, gun and gang crime; engaging young people and families in a process of change.
Character Education - exploring virtues which will assist in positive self development, supporting social change.
Unity Sculpture
A larger-than-life structure is built that helps us celebrate our uniqueness and strengthens our ties to each other. The project consists of 32 posts, each with identifiers such as, “I’m a parent; I speak English as a second language; I identify as LGBTQ,” etc. Participants tie colourful yarn to posts that reflect their identities. As a result, their yarn intertwines with others’ to create a web of interconnectedness.
Speakers Cafe
Young people, ex-offenders are involved in the setting up and delivery of a pop up cafe in local communities, serving soup, juice and bread as well as organising a discussion led by young people about the issues that affect their every day lives.
McKenzie Friendship
A McKenzie friend assists a litigant in person in a court of law in England and Wales. The crucial point is that litigants in person are entitled to have assistance, lay or professional, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Advocacy in all its forms seeks to ensure that people, particularly those who are most vulnerable in society, are able to: Have their voice heard on issues that are important to them. Defend and safeguard their rights. Have their views and wishes genuinely considered when decisions are being made about their lives.
Chilled World
In partnership with Chilled World we offer a therapeutic intervention using music as a tool with proven results as a preventative option for re-offending and placement breakdown for looked after children.
Ruck Sack Project
The Rucksack Project is not about one person trying to do a lot.. it's about many people each just doing a little, to create a better world.
When you are street homeless it is easy to become invisible. Every year we create rucksacks full of essential items and then distribute them to people who find themselves street homeless.