The document discusses a project led by Davina Goodchild aimed at empowering young people through youth-led volunteering in the West Midlands. It describes recruitment and training for young reporters and emphasizes the importance of building relationships with local authorities, as well as the lessons learned during the project, particularly in editing and presenting young people's stories. The initiative also highlights the need for effective team building and support among geographically dispersed participants.

1. Davina Goodchild CEO

2. Empowering Young people Capturing youth led, participative volunteering in the West Midlands. Finding out what’s happening in voluntary and statutory sector – differences? Similarities? Promoting youth led volunteering to organisations via case studies. Recruitment and training of West Midlands based young reporters Can youth action be a ‘stepping stone’ to further empowerment and involvement?

3. Mukith Miah Member Development Officer Youth Participation

4. ACTIVITIES November – December 2010 Recruitment Recruitment from all over England – larger project than just West Midlands. 10 West Midlands volunteers Induction Getting to know each other Project outline Role description Policies and Procedures

5. Training (November, December, January) Teambuilding 9 Principles of youth action Being a reporter and collecting case studies Target setting / Forms / Visits / Supervisions

6. Case Studies (Feb – March and ongoing) Allocating stories Trial and error of format Youth led approach to case studies – to edit or not to edit!?

7. Emma Jarvis Young Reporter

8. The results of the project

9. Lesson Learnt Collecting Case Studies Our experience with Local Authority groups was a steep learning curve. Developing local relationships and building trust. Young People Keeping a group of young people who are geographically spread motivated. Stories of young people involved as interesting (if not more so) than the stories they were reporting on. Editing young people’s words to make them more palatable or suitable for an adult audience. Building in time for ‘practice’ before end product is required – the first pieces written had to be used due to time frames.