Amplify: Regional Youth Voices in Action
Amplify is a regional youth voice research project aiming to create a more inclusive and fair approach to youth engagement. Partnership for Young London are looking for Young people based in London, aged 16–25 to be peer researchers.
Activities include taking part in peer research, creating resources, supporting events and training, and joining advisory boards whilst learning from different regions and working towards change. Peer researchers will spend 100 hours across the project and will be paid the London Living Wage.
What we will be doing:
Developing our cross-regional collaborations through a rolling programme across the nine English regions. Developing and sharing practice around equity and inclusion focused on young people experiencing poverty, and discrimination.
Creating a programme that incrementally builds practice designed with young people. Sharing the evidence on the most effective ways to engage, build impact and affect change, aligned with across regional needs/variations and starting points.
Collaborating with diverse partners across our networks to conduct a review into existing youth voice and youth engagement and systems change.
Sharing Learning through youth-led peer research, assessing how the models can be scaled and developed across the regions, creating alliances of young people focused on delivering change.
We will:
Review the range of models using peer researchers across the regions to interview young people and professionals
Run events and training sessions for organisations on the various approaches in place
Create resources with young people i.e. podcasts, videos, training resources
Set up regional advisory boards across England
Learn from the devolved nations about their work
Build cross regional partnerships on different themes i.e. global majority groups, care experienced young people depending on needs
Outcomes
Young People
Under-represented/marginalised young people are able to influence decisions that directly impact their lives.
Peer researchers have increased research knowledge and skills on gathering data, regarding impact of youth voice on systems-change.
Staff
Youth sector workforce has increased understanding and skills around youth engagement and systems-change.
Organisations
Services improve the quality and impact of their approaches to engaging young people and power-sharing, to achieve outcomes.
Wider Community: Cross-sector regional collaboration in place, driving up the quality and impact of co-production with young people.
Our Underpinning Principles
Systems Change – This work is focused on working with young people who are systemically under-represented, leading to them feeling undervalued, ignored and excluded within society. The work aims to create structures and systems where they are a core part of developing policy and practice solutions. We will work intensely with over 130 young people as paid peer researchers and have wider engagement with 3,500 young people through engagement activities.
Increase Quality and Capacity – Through this offer we will be supporting 3500+ cross-sector leads to shape and develop their practice, using this engagement to shape services and improve outcomes.
Benefit Communities across the UK – This work will impact on young people, their wider communities and on policy and practice across regions and the devolved nations, sharing learning, building practice and ultimately enabling the most marginalised young people across the country to feel more connected, valued and included.