Who we work with
Locala Healthcare
Locala have been pivotal in the development of the Destination webapp and we are grateful for all the support they have provided. Specifically, Locala have funded a number of projects including:
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the development of the Health & Wellbeing section on the Destination webapp
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a project with Kirklees College to develop a suite of health & wellbeing resources
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a project to develop digital resources to help young people with health conditions or learning difficulties transition to adult healthcare
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a podcast project to develop entreprenuial skills
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a podcast project to promote the uptake of the HPV vaccination
National Lottery
The National Lottery have funded two projects through the National Lottery Community Fund:
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the development of the Mental Health section on the Destination webapp and suite of resources created with students from Calderdale College
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a podcast project to encourage care-experienced young people to share their lived experience with other young people
https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk
YPIP
YPIP have funded a project to create content for the Destination webapp that will help young people overcome the barriers to engaging in arts and culture activities. The project also provided support for Youth Social to explore opportunities to extend the footprint of the Destination webapp across West Yorkshire and beyond.
One Community Kirklees
One Community Kirklees has supported Youth Social through a number of funds:
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Through the Wellness Works programme we are delivering a project with Foundation students at Kirklees College to create resources to help young people overcome health barriers when transitioning from education to employment
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Through the Q Futures fund we have developed an accredited qualification and a suite of high quality resources. The fund also enabled us to invest in a two iPads that we use to co-create activity with young people and generate activations as college and youth events.
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Through their Community Grants Programme we have accessed funding to cover day-to-day overheads
Community Foundation For Calderdale
We are delivering a podcast project that will create digital resources for the Destination webapp that will help young people find and engage with environmental activities in their community.
Relationship Matters / Calderdale Council
We have created a suite of resources that will help young people manage
personal relationships and manage relationship disagreements.
Arts Council England
We received funding from Arts Council England to understand why young people are often reluctant to engage with arts and culture activities.
We ran two focus groups with arts organisations to understand the obstacles that they face in engaging young people and using this as a basis, we set up three pop-up creative agencies in colleges across Kirklees & Calderdale. These agencies worked with 39 young people (the majority of whom were non-creative) and provided participants with a ‘creative experience’ that included researching the reasons young people don’t engage, identifying the reasons young people would want to be involved in arts activities and co-creating material they would positively respond to.
Click here to read the final report:
Click here to listen to the dissemination webinar: https://youtu.be/zVytoJin8Ks
https://www.artscouncil.org.uk
Kirklees Council Employment & Skills
Care experienced young people who are economically inactive were supported to undertake a number of creative tasks that developed a range of employability and life skills in order to provide a foundation from which they can get into employment or return to education.
Each task formed the basis of an answer to a podcast interview that participants took part in, and this was edited to become an audio CV that could be used to accompany job applications and include on CVs.
https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/employment-and-skills/index.aspx
West Yorkshire Combined Authority / Groundwork
We were successful in gaining a Groundwork Community Grant to work with 14 young people to develop podcast content for the What The Friday podcast.
14 young people were signed up to the project and a range of podcasts were produced – many of which have addressed participant’s specific barriers in getting into employment.
Ten podcasts interviews were recorded on subjects including: work experience, inclusive recruitment processes, apprenticeships, self employment and volunteering.
https://www.westyorks-ca.gov.uk
Invictus Wellbeing
Invictus are one of the leading mental health charities in the area and they have been invaluable in providing members of staff to be experts on our mental health-related episodes.
The team are also working with us as part of our Wellness Works project at Kirklees College.
https://www.invictuswellbeing.com
Calderdale College
Through Calderdale College we have accessed funding to deliver a project with T-Level students to design and build this website. We have delivered 105 hours of work experience/learning to five students studying digital-related subjects.
Voluntary and Community Calderdale
VAC have funded two podcast projects aligned with the NHS’s winter strategies. The first episode looked at reducing pressure on GPs and A&E departments – considering instead Pharmacists and strategies to manage mental wellbeing. The second episode explored the NHS app and its benefits for teens and young adults.
ASDA Foundation
ASDA Foundation funded the production of a mental health podcast episode looking at the different types of mental health therapies available for young people.