Become a Young Leicestershire Partner

As with all our supporters, we are so thankful to Richard and the team at Watling JCB for sponsoring our bus. It’s always encouraging when such a prestigious business in the local area supports the charity and helps to shine the spotlight on our work. We work tirelessly all year to provide a platform for these children to engage with the local community and this donation will go a long way towards enabling us to do that.

Shoezone have been incredibly generous by donating unrestricted funding, that we have been able to utilize where it will have the most impact. This has been particularly useful in supporting our group for disabled young people in New Parks.

Young Leicestershire is the East Midlands Regional Network Lead facilitating a peer led project exploring how those working with young people demonstrate their impact. Now entering its third year the group meets 3 timer per year and is looking at organisational training needs to progress this. Young Leicestershire and Leicester City Football Trust are piloting the new outcomes framework model provided by the Centre and will report back to the group in the near future. Look out for meeting dates or contact us for more information.

As an affiliated group Young Leicestershire is able to deliver national programmes to local groups. The UPS Road Code project which continues to deliver the road safety message and the newly announced Outdoor Activators programme supports young volunteers into social action projects supporting their communities.

With funding from the Home Office Young Leicestershire delivers a highly successful detached project in the St Matthew’s and Highfields areas of Leicester City with the Prevent agenda. St Phillips also delivers high quality training to many young people.

Many Parish Councils have made a positive decision to invest in local provision for young people. Young Leicestershire now delivers a variety of bespoke services in partnership with these councils. Employing local people to deliver local provision these projects have quickly become an integral part of the local community offer benefitting parents and carers, young people and children. They keep young people off the street and engaged in positive activities. If you are a Parish Council wishing to explore this further, please contact us.

The Sir Andrew Martin Trust for Young People was founded in 1995 by friends of Sir Andrew Martin KCVO who, as Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire for twenty ...

The LCFC Community Trust works to forge effective links between the Club and local communities.

Our CEO attends the Early Help Partnership Board and Children and Families Strategic Partnership Groups to ensure the Voluntary Youth Sector has a voice and active role.

We have been supported by the charity in numerous ways over the past 10 years. Young Leicestershire has received grants for core costs to develop our network and more recently for our young carers group in Hinckley.

Through the Short Breaks Commissioning opportunity New Parks Inclusion Group offers young people with additional needs the opportunity to access youth provision. A wide variety of activities take place on a weekly basis with a focus on fun, physical activity and learning.

Working within the PCC’s aims and objectives Young Leicestershire delivers 2 session per week in Melton Mowbray. These are delivering positive outcomes for young people and working well with their local PCSO’s. Young Leicestershire has also successfully support members to apply and continue their good community projects.