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Step Up To Serve: Empowering Young People for Social Action

Our ambition is to make social action a part of life for 10-20 year olds across the UK by 2020. Join us in moving towards 60% of young people participating in meaningful social action. Together, we can ensure all young people have opportunities, increase the quality of opportunities available, and boost young people's frequency of participation. Youth social action creates positive change, strengthens communities, and develops character and employability skills in young people. Take action, make a pledge to the #iwill campaign, and collaborate with partners to support our cause.

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Step Up To Serve: Empowering Young People for Social Action

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  1. About us

  2. Ambition Make social action part of life for 10 – 20 year olds across the UK by 2020, moving from 40% to 60% of young people (1.5million more) participating in meaningful social action. Three sub-goals that underpin and support this and that are equally important to progress between now and 2020:  • Ensure all young people have the opportunity to participate • Increase the quality of opportunities that are available • Increase young people’s frequency of participation

  3. Youth social action • Youth social action is ‘young people taking practical action in the service of others to create positive change’ • Youth social action creates a double-benefit – it strengthens communities AND develops character and employability skills in young people

  4. Why does this matter? Key benefits: • Education: character and attainment • Employment: skills and networks • Mental health: confidence and wellbeing • Communities: creating a sense of responsibility • Communities: isolation and integration • Public services: improved and more human

  5. What are we doing? Step Up To Serve Strategy: • Evidence and communicate the benefits of youth social action • Embed social action in a young persons journey from 10-20 • Enable more high quality structured opportunities

  6. What can you do? Recognise what you’re already doing Consider how you can get more young people involved Work with partners to support you – you’re not alone Share your stories with us Make a pledge to the #iwill campaign

  7. Pledges

  8. Questions? Fiona Ellison Campaign Manager Step Up To Serve e: fiona.ellison@stepuptoserve.org.uk t: @iwill_campaign t: @fiona_ellison

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