Community Challenge

Legacy and YCHIOW are working together to identify 6 youth groups from different communities in Hampshire and Isle of Wight who will take part in the Community Challenge. The purpose of the challenge will be to get the young people to identify and take responsibility for issues in their local community making it a more positive and safe place to live. Each group’s challenge will be run over 3 months and will be delivered by the young people with coaching from the Legacy and YCHIOW teams and with mentoring from local businesses (who we are hoping will fund the projects).


There are two phases to the project:


Phase 1: Identify the problem

The young people participating will be tasked with creating a 10 minute movie about the top two issues in their local community. The movie should be impactful and an honest, objective portrayal of the issues. The young people should conduct a community enquiry with a cross section of local people initially to show that the issues are real. The young people can film the movie however they like – documentary/fictional drama/real stories or other.

Phase 2: Taking Action

Each youth group will be asked to choose one issue which they will identify a positive impact project for that will be their legacy in the community. We will be involving local councils and other key stakeholders involved in the ideas stage to ensure that the project is realistic and achievable and to make sure we link in with other local initiatives where this is appropriate. We will enlist the help of local residents, businesses and schools to help deliver the project. The young people will be asked to film the project being delivered as a second stage for their movie.

What's Next

All 6 movies will be edited together to provide an insight into community issues in the UK and also to show how youth can take positive action. Awards will be given to the participants during an end of project film viewing and celebration.

Outcomes

The outcomes for the young people taking part will include:

  • More aware of and actively contributing to local community (this is something that young people are likely to take through life with them)
  • Improved communication skills (from working with and interacting with a wide range of people and taking part in activities specifically designed to move this skills area forward)
  • Group work skills (an essential part of the process as this is specifically a group-work project and will include ‘practice’ group-work through organised activities and challenges and ‘real life’ group work to take part in the challenge
  • Greater tolerance of others (coming from working productively with a wide mixture of people and developing a greater understanding of the skills, attributes needs, problems and values of other people)
  • Sense of self-worth increases (through learning new skills, making new friends, achieving something positive and feeling a sense of personal satisfaction)