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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£3.1K
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Spending
£3.2K
Public benefits
Fuse youth is a faith based detached youth project. We seek to engage hard to reach marginalised young people. The groups of young people we work with are often excluded from other youth provision, by lifestyle or choice. We promote inclusion and citizenship by providing positive alternatives to current lifestyle choices. The projects and
activities undertaken operate an open door policy and are free of charge to users and are therefore accessible to all. They are designed as diversionary, early intervention to reduce anti social behaviour, addiction and improve life outcomes for young people. We aim to improve the areas we work, contribute toward community development, cohesion and safety. We engage young people through sport, activity and re-imaging projects. An example of how this can be demonstrated was through a recent project engaging a group of underage drinkers outside a local shop area which lead to antisocial behaviour and fear amongst elderly residents who no longer used the shop at night. Through exploring youth issues in conjunction with the Belfast Giants and using drama to capacity build and empower the young people it was established a Multi Use Games Area would reduce the problems. In conjunction with other local groups and the Council this was developed and completed, helping move the young people away from the shop, reducing underage drinking and making elderly residents feel safer and more confident using the area again. The benefits can be demonstrated through a huge reduction in on street, underage drinking and anti social behaviour. Young people on our projects benefit from increased fitness and mental health well being through exercise. Our projects introduce positive role models into the lives of the young people who may not otherwise have had access to such role models. All of our projects are interactive and based on personal development. We recognise education as a vital tool to reduce deprivation, exclusion and generational poverty. Therefore we aim to improve educational attainment by increasing the reading age of young people. We empower young people to understand their worth and value through our facilitating and understanding self esteem ethos. We support them and their families by introducing Christian values and teachings and provide pastoral care to both parties. We build capacity in young people by developing their self esteem and confidence. We have set three strategic aims by which we measure outcomes. They are Engagement, Social Change and Transformed Lives. Our schools project, called Ignite, helps young people explore and deal with relevant issues for example drug and alcohol awareness, bullying, respect and good life choices. Parents are reporting their young people displaying a more positive outlook on life and greater self esteem and self confidence. Many of the young people on our programmes who were marginalised, are now playing active roles in the community and are engaging with civic life. Others are now joining residents groups, football sporting teams and a few have joined the army or found other employment. Another group of young people we engage are central in any political unrest. Our engagement has enabled us to intervene on several occasions to reduce tension and avert civil unrest by working alongside the PSNI and directly intervening on a number of times. We expect the out workings of our activities to see stronger united communities, where people matter to each other and life is valued and enjoyed. There is no harm or private benefit flowing from the purposes.
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Fuse Youth have two main programs which in turn host our projects and two initiatives. Facilitating and understanding self esteem and focus on the family. The Sporting Chance program runs two football based projects,The Footy Crew and Friday Late. The footy crew engages young people around the medium of football. It creates a space to explore life
issues, at its core it is a personal development program. The sessions are packed with positive reinforcement and deal with real relevant issues to young teens. The Friday Late project works with older teens and twenties. Whilst it is personal development at its core, it also is diversionary, designed to reduce on street underage drinking, and planned to coincide with the street drinking hotspots, late on Friday evenings. Young people on these projects are then filtered onto summer intervention projects working to reduce sectarian tensions over the summer months. The Re-image program hosts mainly art and community improvement projects. Recent examples include painting art on a bus shelter, a lobby project to secure a Multi Use Games Area and a Schools art project marking the 125th anniversary of the school. The focus on the family initiative supports families, creating a safer and more secure environment in the home. Recent projects include a cook it project and internet safety presentations in partnership with the PSNI. The facilitating and understanding self esteem initiative is engrained in our ethos and forms a large part of our thinking. It comes to the fore in our schools project Ignite and Primary Ignite. The Ignite project is delivered to secondary schools and is based around choices and respect. The primary Ignite project is delivered to primary schools and deals with similar age related issues. We support the concept of improving the reading age of young people and are currently setting up a community network of trained volunteers to support young people both in school and community to improve reading age.
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- The advancement of education
- The advancement of religion
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Community safety/crime prevention
- Parents
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Volunteers
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Community development
- Counselling/support
- Education/training
- Religious activities
- Sport/recreation
- Youth development
