We aim to provide positive experiences that engage young people. We have helped organise recycling projects, fashion and dance events, sponsored bike rides and cross-generational projects.
The Trust has David Mayers’s ten year record of effective youth interventions in Salford responding to street riots, gang rivalry, a rise in violent crime, and the disappearance of up to 2,000 16-24 year olds from any form of social register.
Most of these interventions have been funded on an issue by issue basis and have been designed to address and defuse volatile situations which affect young people. An example of bespoke work is John O’Neill’s project on knife crime prevention, #GETHELP – which is being delivered by UP ‘ERE Productions.
M.E.N Article: It shocks schoolchildren into silence – but this brutal scene could save a life – Manchester Evening News
M.E.N Article: Killing of Yousef Makki inspires teen to raise money to bring knife crime play to his school – Manchester Evening News
This hard-hitting play and its follow-up workshops, are being taken into Secondary Schools across the city. Our other theatre work in Special Education with young people suffering with ADHD has been ground-breaking.
We are currently working with Ingeus on a Project named FutureYou