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The story so far#80by18

What’s the big idea?

• Put simply, 80by18 is a list, written by the people of Bristol, of 80 things that young people might do in the city before they’re 18 to help them thrive and survive in a changing world.

What isn’t it?

• 80by18 isn’t a school curriculum. It isn’t a new qualification. It isn’t an obligation. It isn’t a set of ‘learning outcomes’. It isn’t a new council strategy. It isn’t a list of tourist attractions.

• It’s a list of 80 things to do in Bristol before you’re 18 and the resources, places and people who can help young people to do them.

• More than anything - it’s a set of prompts for the imagination. It’s a challenge. It’s an adventure offered by the city.

80by18 Aims

• Uncover and make visible the wide range of experiences in the city that might help young people to survive and thrive whatever the future may bring

• Encourage young people to try out these experiences and to work out ways of enabling them to do so.

• Make a case for the importance of protecting and promoting these experiences for young people

Why does it matter?

• School curriculum being restricted• Uncertain futures bringing environmental,

economic, demographic, technological changes

• Schools can’t and shouldn’t do everything• It takes a city to raise a child

What sorts of things were we looking for?

Future Facing/

Experiences that matter

Drawing on Bristol’s

Resources

Encourage, challenge and excite young

people

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How’s the list been created?• Group of First Partners helped to shape the idea

– Lighting up Learning, ASDAN, the Cabot Institute, Windmill Hill City Farm, University of Bristol, Watershed, MShed, Ablaze, UWE and MyFutureMyChoice

• Workshops with young people in schools across Bristol. • Over 80 different organisations have been involved in meetings Feb/

March/ June this year – to suggest ideas and to start to get people involved

• Bristol Evening Post, Local radio stations and Points West as well as open call on the website and visits by researchers to high streets across the city.

• Over 600 ideas suggested• Ideas clustered by volunteers from city organisations, shortlisted and

prioritised with young people.• To our final list…

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So – what’s on the list?

8 challenge areas

• City as Playground– Reclaim the city as a site for play

• Do It Ourselves– Making, growing, creating

• Change the World– Campaigning, rights, democracy

• Slow Down– Take a different view of the world

• Take a Risk– Explore something different – food, religion,

spaces

• Survive and Thrive– Environment, resilience, personal development

• Back to the Future– Learn from your history

• Random– From Zombie Walks to Artists

Real connections to Bristol resources

• Don’t have the resources to fix a bike? Bike Project has links and advice and suggestions.

• Want to do something more once you’ve made your film? The BBC will offer a masterclass for the first 50 to upload an 80by18 film.

• Want to get better at campaigning? Oxfam will run training for those who get over 200 signatures…

• And more…

Resources

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Our collaborators

• Steve Sayers, Windmill Hill City Farm• Mark Jacobs, BBC• Brenda Massey, City Council• Tim Corum, Bristol Museums and Galleries

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Next Steps

Young people’s energy & ideas, so far and in the future

• What we’ve done so far

• What young people have said

• Next steps & aspirations

500 young people involved in the generation of ideas

Peer research and street fieldwork

Co-research and Workshops

Workshops in primary school classes and youth centres

Young people’s out of school lives

• Already busy, rich and diverse in activity

• Some self-organised, some formally organised

• Barriers to new activities:– Knowing about them– travel, time, cost– competing demands in families

Hopes

Worries

Activities to help

Worries for the future

Envision co-researchers survey

• “Encouraging out of school activities” as social action project

• Web survey of peers • Transport biggest barrier to teenagers’ city

mobility and accessibility of Bristol resources• Petition lobbying BCC and First Group to

review bus fares for under 18s

Engaging with young people in the pilot year

• ‘First testers’: schools and groups who participated in research

• Co-researchers from South Bristol secondary schools

Co-Researchers

• Young People learning research skills • Own projects, researching themselves and peers

trying out the experiences– What difference does following the list make to their

use of city resources, mobility, and sense of ‘rights to the city’?

– What changes when they begin asking questions of and seeking support from organisations and institutions who can facilitate 80by18 experiences?

• Come and present findings at University of Bristol

Going wider

• Snowball effect (schools, families, communities, any organisations working with young people)

• Aim to make young people’s stories, experiences, and “results” of 80by18 activity visible via website and social media

• Develop and grow the resources & network – mapping where, how, why...and who can help.

Next Steps: Your Role…?

• Help us to spread the word – Posters, twitter #80by18

• Help us develop the idea– Have a look at the list, try it out, give us feedback, tell us what

you love/hate• Improve the ‘offer’

– Can you help young people to meet the challenge with activities or support? (contact the team)

– Can you promise to offer welcome, support and advice to young people taking up the challenge? (pick up a sticker)

• Contact the project team on educ-80by18@bristol.ac.uk

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And finally..

Can you suggest number 80?

We’ve left one space for something missing

What do you think should be on the list?

Ideas can be sent in on the website… via the project team… or via email

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Thank you

Thank you to… • The young people of Victoria Park primary, Summerhill primary, Begbrook

primary, St Mary Redcliffe and Temple, Merchants Academy, Brislington Enterprise College, Fairfield High School, Oasis Academy John Williams, Bedminster Down School, Envision, South Bristol Youth Consortium

• Our first partners UWE, Watershed, Mshed, Ablaze, Lighting up Learning, MyFutureMyChoice, ASDAN,Windmill Hill City Farm for helping get started

• Clara Lemon and Dan Tagg for the website• Ben Carruthers for 80by18 design and branding• Matt Moutos & Lizzie Packham for getting out across the city and eliciting ideas

and gathering all the information• Paul Strauss & Teresa Nurser – the core team at Uni of Bristol; Lindsey Horner &

Mary O’Connell for their work on the website and this event• AHRC for funding the fellowship that makes this possible• All of the people and organisations of the city who have enthusiastically

contributed their time and ideas

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