Trainer:Jo Birch-Phaure28 January 2015

WELCOME

HOUSEKEEPING

PRESENTName Location

Antony Kenya

Billy Manchester UK

Chaz UK

Chloe UK

Dom UK

Esmerelda Nigeria

Hamza Palestine

Lewis UK

Michael UK

Ranier Egypt

Saman UK

AIM OF THE DAY

• To introduce UK Youth

• To think about Social Action

PROGRAMME• Introductions

• What is Social Action?

INTROS

Your Name

Sum yourself up in a tweet@ukyouth

Passionate communicator, social media enthusiast, feminist, veggie, opinionated leftie, active talker, into wine, cheese, dancing and dogs…

GROUP AGREEMENT

We agree that what is said in the group stays in the group unless it is an issue of personal safety

The learning we gain from this group can be discussed with others

We will treat each other with respect and recognise the value of each member’s views and opinions

One member of the group should talk at a time

Sometimes we will need to agree to disagree

Individuals have the right to pass if they want to

Please turn your phone to silent

We are all responsible for the success of the day

Timekeeping

Enjoy ourselves and have fun

SOCIAL ACTION

Discuss on your table :-

Think about your experience of social action?

What do you think it is?

SOCIAL ACTIONWrite a one line statement to say what Social Action means to you.

The King of cool who brings joy

to all spaces he enters and

yeah…he knows it #bigheaded

#ignore

Social Action is action on both a small and large scale that improves a

community and the lives of the people in that

community- most people who are doing social

action, won’t know that it is called social action.

Being Different!

Social Action is…activity and

behaviour which means people are

becoming more connected with each

other and with our environment.

-Change comes from people to

people.

-Helping myself through helping the

community.

Social Action- Commitment to

making a difference via small actions that could

lead to big change.

Social Action- A group of people (active citizens)

coming together to make a positive change to the community.

SOCIAL ACTION Social Action for me is when there are issues or

deprivation in communities or areas in communities that can be improved to regulate that particular

area for example if there is vandalism in an area possibly build a youth

centre or host a football tournament.

Social Action- A group of people (active citizens) coming together

to make a positive change to the community.

I think that social action is an act or an event that is designed to benefit or bring some sort of

progress to a group or an individual, a community or the country at large to bring about

positive change. Social Entrepreneurship should be

included to sustain the life of a long term social action as well.

Social Action is the something that can lead the community

to progress as it focuses on working with youth and the youth are the real

treasure in any community.

A collective community action

that brings positive change in a

community/implemental by the people coming together to over come a certain

challenge.

The work and energy put in by citizens that has

the aim of bringing about a positive change in their

society.

SOCIAL ACTION

What are your experiences of Social Action?

• BIRMINGHAM SINGULAR CULTURE

• CRIME

• COHESION

• VOLUNTEERING > SOCIAL ACTION?

• PROBLEMS IN THE COMMUNITY

• MAKE A CHANGE IN YOUR COMMUNITY

• ACTS OF KINDNESS

SOCIAL ACTION

SOCIAL ACTION

VOLUNTEERING SOCIAL

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

SOCIAL ACTION

What do you think it gives to the communities around you?

• CHANGES

• NEED> CHANGED SERVICES

• GIVES PEOPLE SKILLS

• IMPROVES RELATIONSHIPS

• MOTIVATES OTHERS TO DO STUFF!

• COHESION

• KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

• STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE

SOCIAL ACTION AND SOCIETY

• VOLUNTARY

• SOCIAL ACTION

• NGO’S

• DIRECTING OTHERS TO SOCIAL ACTION

• HELPING CHILDREN LESS ABLE

• CAMPAIGNING

COMMON LANGUAGE• PEOPLE – CHANGE- SCALE

• CONNECTED- PROGRESS

• COMMUNITY- ACTIVE CITIZENS

• HELPING- YOUTH

• POSITIVE- DIFFERENT/ ENCE

• SOCIETY- WORK/ ENERGY

• ENTREPRENEURSHIP- INDIVIDUAL

• LONG TERM- SUSTAINABILITY

SOCIAL ACTIONThe Centre for Social Action supports programmes that encourage people to create positive change through social action.

Social action can broadly be defined as practical action in the service of others, which is:

carried out by individuals or groups of people working together

not mandated and not for profit

done for the good of others - individuals, communities and/or society

bringing about social change and/or value

Social action can include formal or informal volunteering, the giving of time and money or simply people helping people.

The government originally set out its intentions on how to promote social action in the:

Giving green paper

Giving white paper

https://www.gov.uk/centre-for-social-action

YOUTH PARTICIPATION

UK YOUTH SOCIAL ACTION PROGRAMMES

NATIONAL CITIZEN SERVICE (NCS)

STARBUCKS YOUTH ACTION

02 THINK BIG

ANY QUESTIONS?

THANK YOU AND SAFE TRAVELS

How To Play Doggy Doggy Who's Got Your Bone?This is a classic kids party game and is great fun even for a group of older youth people.

One person will sit on a chair facing away from the group with their eyes closed and have the keys or coin underneath their chair.

One kid from the rest of the group can be chosen (silently) to take the object and sit back down. At this points everyone pretends hey have the object behind their back or hidden in their hands.

Tell the person on the chair to open their eyes and turn around. The group of young people can chant "Doggy, Doggy, who's got your bone?" or "Doggy, Doggy, where's your bone?". They have three guesses to guess who's got their bone.

If they guess correctly, they can stay as the dog. If they guess incorrectly, then they must swap over to give someone else a go.Materials Neededkeys or a coin

THIS ACTIVITY WILL DEPEND ON THE TYPE OF GROUP YOU HAVE – IF THEY’RE VERY SURE OF THEMSELVES THEN IT JUST WONT WORK BUT IF THEY’RE GCSE AGE OR YOUNGER IT MIGHT BE A GIGGLE – YOU’LL HAVE TO SEE WHEN YOU GET THERE

How To Play Mingle Mingle MingleThis is a good youth group game to get people mingling together and to help them to get to know one another better.

Get the whole group together. The leader running the game calls out a category question (for example - what is your favourite colour?). Everyone in the group would then have to start calling out their favourite colour to each other and find the others in the group who have the same favourite colour as them.

When a player finds another player who has the same answer as them they then join together (by linking arms) and continue to go round the group looking for more people with the same answer. After a minute or so (completely up to the leader running the game) the leader can call "STOP". Each group needs to call out their answer. If there are two people/groups who have the same answer but are not linked together then they are eliminated from the next round. Or alternatively, to keep everyone involved, you can give each kid five wrapped lollies or popsticks to start with and if they lose one each time this happens.

Be creative with the questions you ask:- Favourite pizza topping- Favourite ice cream flavour- Favourite TV show- Favourite band- Favourite book of the Bible

THIS MIGHT BE A BIT OF A LONG GAME FOR A SHORT SESSION – REALLY FITS RESIDENTIALS BUT ITS AN OPTION WHEN YOU GET THERE

 How To Play Mix & MeetGet each person to grab some sweets - Tell them not to eat them.

Assign a different meaning to each colour:Blue = familyGreen = schoolYellow = friendsRed = hobbiesBrown = music/movies

However many sweets they have in their hands, that is how many facts they have to tell. For example, if they have three blue, they would have to say three facts about their family.

Materials NeededSweets 

SWEETS ALWAYS WORK! I ALWAYS HAVE SWEETS AND LOLLIES ON THE TABLE WHEN I TRAIN!