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About Colwall Youth Project

Colwall Youth Project is a growing youth group that supports on average over 100 young people per week. We currently run two open access youth sessions per week, afterschool club /educational support sessions, Skills4Life, mental health, wellbeing and mindfulness support, youth mentoring, 1-1 and group sessions, a youth council, empowerment and exclusion programs and holiday clubs. The project has a goal to be a safe haven, this means that young people living in rural isolation can have a place that they can call home. Youth work is much more than evening youth groups and fun activities, it’s about allowing those young people who feel abandoned by society, by school, by family and restricted by location; the opportunity to feel cared for and included. For some the simple act of knowing they can just walk in and make a hot drink and have a chat, for others it’s about having someone they can ask the difficult questions to without judgment or risk of being shamed. This is a very fluid and ever-changing role in their lives, for those who start accessing the project at age 9, the role of our project is to start a relationship of trust. As they grow and become young adults the project has a very different role, it is to teach them the many skills and life lessons they never see inside a classroom. We teach them about healthy relationships, safe sex, drug misuse, money management, the importance of talking about mental health and most of all about the value of humanity.