Ignite Youth

We believe in the power of community so we build communities of change around young peoples’ interests and needs. We believe a healthy community draws people to itself, changes individuals and empowers them to impact their environment. Within these communities, positive relationships develop and barriers fall. Ignite works with young people aged 11-25 to help them re-engage with education, find employment or move away from anti-social behaviour, gang involvement or exploitative relationships. Ignite seeks to engage and empower young people with the aim of positively transforming their lives. OUR VISION We build a community of young people with the aim of engaging and empowering them in order to ignite change. We want to create a community in which young people have the confidence and self-belief to make positive changes and transform their lives. THE JOURNEY Our youth workers are committed to journeying with young people, many of whom are at-risk, marginalised or face barriers to achieving success in life. The three stages of the journey may take years but we are about long-term commitment: Engagement: making meaningful contact with young people through activity and education-based programmes; Empowerment: challenging values and behaviour and equipping young people with the tools, resources and opportunities to make positive choices in their current situations; Transformation: supporting young people to change the direction of their lives away from negative influences and raising aspirations, set goals for the future and support them into long-term transformation.