Inspiring a Generation: Lessons from funding youth social action and volunteering in UK events
This report, produced by Spirit of 2012, brings together learning from our funded projects around youth social action and volunteering.
Building on the promise to ‘Inspire A Generation’ after London 2012, Spirit of 2012 was established in 2013 with commitments to:
- the advancement of the education of children and young people including but not limited to sporting and cultural activities.
- increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the Voluntary Sector by encouraging members of the public to engage in activities to help others on a voluntary basis
This report is about the combination of those two objectives: ways that young people can
get involved in events as volunteers and social action participants. It is aimed at:
- Event organisers, commissioners and funders who want to increase youth representation in their volunteer workforce, or design a youth specific strand;
- Funders and bid writers looking for evidence about the impact of youth event volunteering;
- Youth organisations thinking about how events could best provide a platform for benefiting young people, and for working in partnership with others
