Youth Engagement

GENERAL PARTICIPATION

Interested in keeping up with our work and one off opportunities? Here are some of the ways to get involved.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Interested in doing work experience or placements' with us for personal development? Here are some of the ways to get involved.

PROJECT PARTICIPATION

Interested in longer research projects or to influence our practises? Here are some ways to get involved.

Ways to get involved

GENERAL PARTICIPATION

Interested in keeping up with our work and one off opportunities? Here are some of the ways to get involved.

Newsletters & Social Media

Partnership for Young London's youth board update is a collection of news, opportunities, and an update on our events and work in London's youth sector. If you have anything that you want to share or promote, please email update.pyl@gmail.com.

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Access to Training

Partnership for Young London offers a range of training and events, and they are all publicised in the youth board newsletter and via the website. These sessions are targeted at people working with young people and we also offer youth work courses level 2 and 3, these are always advertised on the youth board newsletter or the weekly update. Please click here to register.

"Really insightful session to inform my practice when supporting young people."

"I have shared what i have learnt so far and resources that should be helpful for colleagues and people they are working with"

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Interested in doing work experience placements' with us for personal development? Have a look at all of the ways to get involved.

Work Experience & Volunteering

The types of skills that Partnership for Young London can support you to develop include:

• Events management

Research Skills

• Communications

• Wix

• X and LinkedIn

• Policy and Information

We currently can't offer work experience, but please see the project participation section to find out other ways you can get involved, you can also sign up to our newsletter for updates.

My work experience at Partnership for Young London was made extremely enjoyable by the friendly working environment. I felt at ease straight away because instead of just being given tasks with the expectation to get on with it – I was given the flexibility to shape it however I wanted and be creative. Due to the welcoming work environment, I always felt confident to ask questions – not only about the task at hand, but also about how this fit into the bigger picture around youth voice and engagement. - Ayan

Student Placements

Partnership for Young London works with a range of Universities and Higher Education Institutes across London offering student placements, these are aligned with the various projects.

These include being involved in research projects, supporting youth work activities, co-facilitating youth engagement events or advisory boards. Please get in touch if you are interested, these placements have to be signed off by your college or university.

PROJECT PARTICIPATION

Interested in longer research projects or to influence our practises? Here are some ways to get involved.

Youth Advisory Boards

We have a range of peer advisory boards in place supporting the work of the various projects. These groups consist of young Londoners who are interested in key areas of work, they meet on a monthly basis to support the programmes of work underway. The advisory boards help shape our work, create content and resources, undertake research, attend events, host seminars depending on the nature of the projects. The key skills gained from being involved include skills around leadership, communications and public, research and analysis, influencing and campaigning, networking among others.

We have the following advisory boards in place:

The Youth Vaping and Smoking Advisory Board
Pan London Children in Care Council
The Digital Health Ambassadors
The Peer Research Advisory Board

Young people are remunerated for their involvement.

The pan-London children in care council (CiCC) brings together a group of care-experienced young people to create opportunities, improve services and influence policy work within the care sector.

“I’ve had the chance to attend the launch of the pan-London care leavers compact in February this year. It was wonderful to see so many care-experienced young people attend from across London and hear from their inspiring speeches at the event.

I’ve also had the opportunity to attend incredible events with organisations like Google and City Academy which have broadened my perspectives on careers in the tech and creative industries. As a care leaver I’m grateful that Partnership for Young London have created meaningful opportunities to improve support and actively involve care leavers in the design of services and events across London”. – Aaliyah

Peer Research

Partnership for Young London has a number of roles for peer researchers. Young people are trained in peer research and take a lead on gathering data and insight from their peers. More details about our peer research approach can be viewed here.

Peer research offers a wide range of opportunities for young people depending on their capacity, interests and skill sets. We have mapped out the journey of Syeda Islam and all the skills she has developed over the past few years with us.’

List of current peer research projects:

Young people employed as peer researchers are paid at London Living Wage.

I was proud to be apart of the research team which looked to evaluate youth social action and its impact across London after having partook in youth social action myself . I got involved as I believed that the ability to research and all the sub skills learnt are key in any sector you may want to go into. I also saw this opportunity as a great way to help alike minds and make London a better place for youth - Nasir