Community Participation & Citizenship

This activity explores the notion of standing up for your principles and beliefs.

This activity raises young people’s awareness about the distances that food travels around the world before ending up on our tables.

This activity explores the boundaries and limitations of a volunteer’s role. As with all drama based activities this will lead wherever participants take it. Often this is dependent on how much they relate to the situation described at the start, so you can add to the suggestions given to make the situations more relevant to your project

This warm up exercise encourages young people to see the personal and social benefits of voluntary work.

This is a sorting activity to explore the reasons why young people might not get involved in volunteering opportunities.

This activity explores the personal skills and qualities required to be a volunteer youth worker.

This activity encourages young people to speak out about the things that are important to them, and opens up discussions about barriers to making a difference.

This activity asks young people to consider the difference between assertive, aggressive and passive communication and builds skills to be able to choose the appropriate communication style.

This is a group activity that considers the role of the media and how young people are portrayed. It helps develop skills to represent different points of view.

This exercise helps assess knowledge within the group about what ‘advocacy’ is and the role of an advocate.