Blend Youth Project continues to offer a wide range of activities and support services designed to enrich the lives of young people, helping them navigate the complexities of today’s world, while developing the skills they need to enhance their life opportunities and build positive relationships.
Our focus is on enabling young people to become more active, make informed health and wellbeing choices, express themselves creatively, develop and engage with others, and participate in community projects. We are dedicated to providing youth programmes across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, both at Blend Youth Hubs and through street and project-based initiatives.
We exist to provide young people with a place of belonging, of hope, of respect and support, and passionately believe in the role of youth work as an effective method of engaging with and facilitating better outcomes for the most vulnerable and at risk young people in society.
We seek to value and respect each young person and offer holistic, inclusive provision which is person centred and needs-led.
Delivery Streams
We have shaped our work around a series of six inter-connected themes that reflect the heart of what we do and the impact we want to have in our local communities and the young people we support.
These delivery streams help us stay focused, intentional, and responsive to the real needs of young people and communities. Whether it’s through open-access sessions, targeted support, or specialist programmes, each stream is about creating real opportunities for young people to grow, connect, and thrive.
Active
Encouraging young people to pursue physically active lifestyles through the provision of a range of regular physical & sporting opportunities.
Enabling young people to explore and develop the knowledge needed to understand the contribution physical activity makes to their overall health & well-being.
Health & Well-Being
Promoting the holistic health & well-being needs of young people through the provision of awareness raising activities together with targeted support services and access to information, advice and guidance support.
Enabling young people to make informed and positive choices relating to their health through their participation in healthy lifestyle activities.
Creativity
Encouraging and enabling young people’s identity exploration, expression and development through the provision of creative opportunities and challenges including performing & creative arts.
Using a range of mediums to enable the creative expression of young people including art,
drama, music & music production, cookery and ICT.
Community
Fostering an experience of ‘belonging’ and ‘community’ for young people engaging in the project to reduce social exclusion & isolation.
Creating opportunities for young people to demonstrate active citizenship through engaging in community projects aimed at addressing responding to local issues & needs and to promote a sense of social cohesion.
Education & Training
Providing alternative education opportunities for young people and support in gaining training and employment through weekly Job Shops.
Ensuring that young people have a better awareness of, and access to a range of information, advice, guidance and support services.
Employment & Enterprise
Providing young people with the opportunity develop employability & enterprise skills and knowledge, through access to volunteering placements, vocationally based education & training pathways.
