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Youth Social Action Starter Pack
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Youth Social Action Starter Pack

This YSA starter pack contains the key resources needed to plan and deliver YSA in your setting.
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This YSA starter pack contains the key resources needed to plan and deliver YSA in your setting.

Community Engagement Guide
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Community Engagement Guide

This guide can help users maximise the impact of working in partnership with the local community.
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This guide can help users maximise the impact of working in partnership with the local community. Community and stakeholder engagement in a youth social action programme involves young people working with other interested individuals or organisations to deliver action and change. The engagement can help increase access to students' learning opportunities, boost student retention, promote optimism among teachers, and improve children's school attendance rates.

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Teamwork Guide (for educators)

This guide explains the importance of teamwork when young people are working together.
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This guide's main aim is to help you understand the importance of teamwork when young people are working together on a group project. It gives you an overview of the different departments in organisations and the various roles young people can play in these departments. It explores the different stages of teamwork, such as forming, storming, morning, performing, and adjourning, and applies these to the five steps of Youth Social Action.

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Fundraising Guide for Young People (KS 4&5)

How to raise funds for a Youth Social Action project.
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The main aim of this guide is to give you advice on: Youth Social Action project ideas (based on projects run by other young people) How to Turn Ideas into Youth Social Action Projects How to raise money How to raise other goods (hygiene products/food for the food bank) How to spread the word

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Earth Cubs - Climate resources for ages 3-11

Earth Cubs is award-winning content about the environment, sustainability and climate change for 3-11 year olds.
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Earth Cubs is award-winning content about the environment, sustainability and climate change for 3-11 year olds.

Teaching Climate Change (KS 3&4)
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Teaching Climate Change (KS 3&4)

Teaching climate change - overview of 5 lessons.
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This resource contains the following lessons: Lesson 1: Understanding the Meaning of Sustainability Young people to understand the meaning of sustainability and the skills and knowledge needed to make changes. Lesson 2: How does what we eat impact the environment? Young people to understand the impact our eating habits can have on the environment. Lesson 3: What is Biodiversity? The key objective of this lesson is to learn about biodiversity and importance Lesson 4: What do young people think about Climate Change? What do young people think about Climate Crisis? What are they doing about it? Let's meet some young people. Lesson 5: The role of the UN in supporting young people with change? The role of the UN in supporting young people to support change.

Background Reading on Climate Change (KS 3&4)
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Background Reading on Climate Change (KS 3&4)

Background reading to support the effective teaching of climate change and green living.
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Background reading to support the effective teaching of climate change and green living

Organisations that can Support the Teaching of Climate Change (KS 3&4)
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Organisations that can Support the Teaching of Climate Change (KS 3&4)

A list of organisations and groups that can provide support, advice and guidance with the teaching of Climate Change.
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A list of organisations and groups that can provide support, advice and guidance with the teaching of Climate Change

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Aims

Youth Social Action (YSA)

Refers to activities that young people do to make a positive difference to others while developing key skills and attributes and having fun. YSA can take place in various contexts (i.e. at home, schools, youth clubs etc) and can include volunteering, fundraising, campaigning or supporting peers. We believe social action can play an essential role: in young lives, the success of a school, the local community or more.

Resource Hub

Our Resource Hub aims to act as a Youth Social Action search engine, offering tailored results to inspire and guide. The hub hosts a wide variety of resources, including our own Youth Social Action Toolkit, case studies, research reports, and helpful resources from other reputable organisations in the sector.

How to use

How to use

Our Resource Hub aims to act as a Youth Social Action search engine, offering tailored results to inspire and guide. The hub hosts a wide variety of resources, including our own Youth Social Action Toolkit, case studies, research reports, and helpful resources from other reputable organisations in the sector.

To find appropriate resources, use the filter feature to select the relevant options. You can filter by key stage (1-5), YSA theme (e.g. poverty), or a particular skill (e.g. communication). You can also filter by resource owner (Ormiston Trust or external organisation) and resource type, such as lesson plans. If you know what you are looking for, you can use the search bar.

To save or download resources, please sign up for a free account. In your user area, you can organise your saved items for quick and easy access. On the resource results page, you can save or download multiple resource quickly by using the tickbox feature.

Youth Social Action Toolkit

Youth Social Action Toolkit

Our Youth Social Action Toolkit has been carefully developed by industry professionals with input from young people to guide school leaders, support staff, and young people through a Youth Social Action project. Our curriculum guides clearly outline how YSA can be integrated into the curriculum of schools with limited time.

 

We don’t gatekeep – by sharing our sector knowledge and resources, we aim to enrich the lives of all young people by fostering skills development, improving agency and wellbeing, and promoting active citizenship.

Inspire

The first step of the YSA process is to be inspired by an issue you care about! Check out our inspirational case studies on what you could do!

Explore

The second step of the YSA process is to explore your options! You‘ll need to research the issue that inspired you to take action to understand how you can help.

Ready to start planning your project? Access our Youth Social Action Toolkit here.

Plan

The third step of the YSA process is to plan your project! Lucky for you, we have a Project Planning Template for that.

Act

The fourth step of the YSA process is to carry out your plan! This is when the physical activities involved like fundraising, campaigning, and volunteering kick off.

Reflect

The fifth and final step of the YSA process is to reflect! Looking back at your plan, did you achieve your aims?  What went well and what didn’t go so well? Can you sustain your project? Or did you take steps to ensure further projects aren’t needed?