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Create an epic British film, unlike any other. Inspire and rally a large team of young people across London and work together to film 'City Stars'. Already dubbed a cross between Award Winning TV Series 'Skins' and Bafta winner Noel Clarke's 'Adulthood', City Stars focuses on a group of seven tight-knit, freewheeling urban adolescents placed under extraordinary circumstances at the most volatile stage of their lives. All the characters are based on real, motivational and charismatic teenagers and the positive and light-hearted portrayal of life in the 21st century - Cultivating their friendship against all odds.

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AIM: To create a CD, Documentary and show of what happens when positivity is made the theme for creating a masterpiece in various art forms: Poetry, Spoken Word, Dance, Fashion, Invention, Music, a Magazine, Painters, Short Film etc... So...those who want to take part must come up with something in their art form based on the theme of positivity e.g. – Love, Happiness, Peace, Victory, Freedom... There will be auditions in front of a celebrity panel and those who get through will perform at a live show, where the overall winner will be awarded to work with one of our panellists! 

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A healthy cafe drop-in for young people to socialise and take part in safe leisure time. We want to add a peer education element to the drop-in as young people react more positively to ideas and suggestions from fellow young people. In this case, for example, what type of healthy smoothie to try. Also we want to give young people information and help them give up smoking. What we are asking for is to recieve funding to train youth volunteers to run the healthy youth cafe (e.g. food hygiene and nutrition courses). Also we'll need funding for equipment, room hire and nutrition experts to come in from time to time to provide support.

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To set up a regular weekly group for young parents aged 13-25 in a safe central location, where young parents from all communities in Bradford will be welcome. We will alternate the sessions one week doing fun things with the children and the following doing things as parents whilst the children will be with registered childcare in the same building. We will look to have fun but also run training courses & workshops & also give help and advice on getting back into education and employment. Our goal for the year will be to achieve more funding as a group and run a family fun day, which the group will organised and run as a team.

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To deliver "Lessons On Life", a youth-led life skills programme for young people which aims to inculcate the virtues of learning. In disengaged areas it is extremely challenging for young people to fully know and comprehend the steps they must take towards success. This programme hopes to solve this issue by equipping young people to pass the challenges of life, addressing topics such as communication, presentation and relationship management. Using young role models to deliver programmes makes the message trustworthy, thus inspiring the audience to fully engage in learning.

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I would like to produce a 10 episode inspirational chat show, promoting outstanding young people who have overcome extreme circumstances. The show will have its own dedicated website from which you can view all episodes but the aim is to also air it on a SKY channel for a larger audience impact. The show will explore many issues that young people face as well as give a platform to up and coming new musical talent.

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To create a forum physical & online for young people to actively express themselves in their chosen art forms. given them an opportunity to artistically express by embracing their natural talents and inspiring them to use it in order to reach their full potential in life whatever their goals may be. through training and showcasing they will see and feel BIG CHALLENGES ACHIEVED!

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My big idea to tackle the Big Challenge is to create a youth café central to Frome where young people aged 11-18 can go to simply hang out. It will provide a safe environment for them, keeping them off the streets, providing someone to talk to if they are in need, but most importantly a place to escape from the hustle and bustle of living in Frome and relax to live music, a game of pool, or just a chat over a glass of Coke. But get this, it will be set up and run by just us teenagers! Seeing as the adults have ignored our needs so far, let’s set this up and prove to them we are capable of something great!

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BE INSPIRED is an inspiring movement aiming to inspire young people (ages 13 to 25) to STAND UP, STAND OUT and BE OUTSTANDING in all they do! One of the branches would be an online magazine for young people by young people, focusing on profiling Young and Ambitious achievers and the British and Accomplished in London, with a hint of lifestyle, fashion, education and business! We aim to be UK’s No.1 YOUNG PEOPLES ACHIEVERS MAGAZINE that identifies, informs and celebrates the achievements of proactive young people in the UK whilst also providing a platform to unwind, inspire and discuss.

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My big idea to tackle the Big Challenge is to host an event called “R U Ready 2 Dance” This will be open to the ages of 16 - 25 year olds from our local community. We will be welcoming dancers, singers, actors, poets along with providing dance classes and work shops to the build up of the show. From this inventive show we hope to encourage more young people to unit together and become one. This is to prevent the bad social aspects we have in today’s society.

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I want to help local teenagers get the best start in life. I have been working in a school in a very disadvantaged area, and want to help them help other children in the area. Their local library is under threat, and I want to provide an alternative after school in the school library, with the students as staff. I want them to create storybags to use reading in the community, a courtyard for the library, a functioning garden, and baby and toddler groups held in the library. This will help them to establish a basis for a future career.

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To initiate and manage a book reading initiative within local schools to help young people to read more and spend less time on the internet, social networking sites and TV. I have read books such as those in the autobiographical and self-help categories from a young age and find that it helps me to be imaginative about my life. Reading within a group setting can be very involving and engaging in helping individuals to formulate their own ideas and concepts. I believe the category of books used will help inspire, involve and cause those involved to become more creative.

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My Big Idea is to run a service across Sheffield which offer Personal Development training sessions, Success Skills Sessions, Motivation Classes and Employment and Entrepreneurial Skills training. These sessions will help people to Imagine and realise their dreams and hopes for their lives. It will provide them with the skills and Inspire them to take action to make their dreams come true and it will Involve people in their local community as there will be support groups and a Peer Education scheme whereby those who have attended the sessions will have the opportunity to volunteer as a mentor to new comers.

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To create a group for young LGBT people run by young LGBT people that provides support and advice on issues relating to being young and gay, for example, with coming out and homophobic bullying. The group will provide a ‘safe space’ for YLGBTP to meet with other YLGBTP to discuss issues affecting them and how to bring about changes. This will be virtually, via a group website and literally, through locally organised groups. The groups will then mobilise to challenge the issues affecting them and campaign for changes to be made.

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'More Mascots Please' which includes my special creation ‘Mintie’ will hopefully have national reach and be recognisable for representing the qualities of ‘courage, commitment and challenges’. I would like to use mascots as a fundraising tool to go into schools and hospices to support children. I have had contact with mascots such as Bearemy and Pudsey and feel that they are great tools to get people together. However, I had limited control over other people’s mascots and will develop my own so I can use it to go into hospitals to entertain young people who are going through difficult times.

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I want to run a Basketball tournament using the new format of 2 on 2. there will also be performances, speeches, competitions and special guests. The games will be 6 minutes long and half court so their will be two games on at once. It is played in a competition format where it starts with group stages than to knockouts stages. The participants will be split into different sections aimed at the age categories of under 14, 16, 19 with boys and girls in separate leagues. My event will also double as a careers convention.

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To bring body and self confidence back to the youth of today, with the internet becoming more powerful than ever it is all too easy for people to rely on it as a means of communication to the outside world and even create a second profile and image resulting in self rejection. I want to gather a team of volunteers and do a series of photoshoots with young individuals communicating through a photograph of themselves that would be exhibited and act as an expression and inspiration for the young and provide an insight and better understanding for the older generation

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Producing movie on the issues on drugs and gangs, this movie will educate young people that if they take the wrong step doing any criminal activity at the end of it you will be court and the police will be involved. This movie will aspire young adults not to take wrong actions but to be good citizens and to help the community. The movie builds awareness and promotes how to live a better life as young person. I will identify young adult’s talent to come forward from schools, colleges, to take part in the movie, The police will be involved.

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create a shop that sells vintage second hand clothing, cd's and vinyl. it will also be a platform for local artists to sell there work and hold workshops within the premises. then working with VANL the local agency that provides voluntary opportunity's the store will offer a reward scheme that for every hour of voluntary work a person does they receive 1 v point which can be collected to be used in store. the whole store will be run by volunteers and all will have the opportunity to gain a NFTE qualification in the process . then if the project succeeds any profits from the shop will be put into a fund for other youth groups to access

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My project idea is to train young people on how they can set up their social enterprise. This project is targeted at young people that are unemployed and are not in formal education and are between the ages of 16-21. This project will consist of a 2 day training programme for volunteers and a 5 day social enterprise training session for the young beneficiaries. I intend to recruit 7 young volunteers and 20 young people who will benefit from the training sessions. The social enterprise training session will be facilitated by some of the young volunteers and they will be supported by a social enterprise trainer. The other volunteers will be involved in the planning, and delivery of the project. They will help out with administration, leaflet distribution, monitoring and evaluation etc.

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i would like to set up a community dance project so children from the inner city area can acess a professional service wich they would never normallly have the oportunity to do because of them/there parents having a low income,turning young people into professional dancers allowing them to build there confidence,self esteem,allow them to keep fit in a active way and allow them to ge the oportunity to perform and enter competittion.

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I want to create a garden using wildflowers- to inspire people to look closely at native plants, appreciate them, grow them. We’d take our garden to a big flower show – BBC Gardeners’ World Live at the NEC, where it could be seen by 100,000 visitors and potentially millions of TV viewers. We’d grow plants for the garden ourselves and get the community involved in growing them too. After the show, we’d plant the garden in a permanent site in a community garden to be enjoyed for years to come - a great place for young people to learn or relax.

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Our project looks to inspire follow disabled young people by allowing them to explore how there disability makes them feel through the medium of photography. We are very passionate this topic and volunteering on this project will allow us to develop the skills to explore body image, sexuality, disability and society’s perception of them in a way the differs from very commonly used method of “talking therapy” We don’t want to just talk about the issues we want to do something practical to help young people with disabilities to feel they can be themselves and that their opinion matters. We also want to show disabled young people and that non-disabled will accept them and that disabled have the power to inspire others

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to inspire other young people and students to provide solutions to improving our education system. Young people themselves hold the answers to resolving the UK’s education crisis. We (group of 15-26 yr olds) want to create a web forum to collate ideas from young people across the country, run workshops to engage young people to get them to think analytically about their educational experience and finally to create a documentary to share the ideas we uncover with a broad audience, to hopefully engender change. See www.SOTdoc.com

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To take music and Drama and make a serious and understandable film about hidden issues and pressures youngsters the age of 16-19 go through. Although this challenge is not a completely new idea I would love the oppotunity to direct and script a film using loads of volunteers to not only show adults what we go through and what we are capable of but to also show other teenagers that they are not alone through crisis and troubles. The movie would explore in depth and feeling what we wish to tell adults. I have been acting from the age of 11 but I notice that everone has a differnt talent, i would split volunteers up in sections of dancer, singers, rappers, actors, Camera and audio, editing, and even those who like writing to help with the scripting and organisation.

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We want to have a group for young people living independently or in foster families to learn important skills like cooking, shopping, budgeting, gardening, how to eat healthily, how to make a CV and how to get jobs and work experience. This project would be for young people aged 15-24, who are getting ready to or are already living independently. We will have group sessions to share information and learn new skills. Some of the sessions will be run by volunteer adults and others will be run by young people who have been through the experience of living independently themselves.

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I want to expose the harrowing secret world that exists behind closed doors, & raise awareness about sex trafficking through theatre and performance. I will turn a house into a representation of a brothel, and include volunteer actors/actresses to tell the stories of real people that have been trafficked into this Country and held against their will. This is based on a performance like this that I have already directed for my studies, which has encouraged me to develop this further and produce this for public viewing. My idea is to guide the audience around the house, and make an ‘interactive’ piece, which will help people to understand the nature of trafficking and that it can be stopped.

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Setting up and running a support network for girls aged 11-18 covering all aspects of the life of a young woman whilst using experiences and successes of older women to motivate, encourage and equip members to start early, carve out and fulfil their hopes and dreams. The principle ethos being: 'We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily difference we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee' and 'if you train a girl, you train the world!'

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The Street Law project! We know that young people have valid opinions and can argue them as well as any Lawyer out there, so I’m giving young people the chance to do just that. All young people deserve the chance to experience a legal career, without being told that it is too expensive or too difficult. Basic knowledge of the Law is invaluable at any age. As well as learning the Law that affects them the most and learning to form legal arguments, young people can test their legal skills in the Street Law Court’s very own MOCK TRIALS.

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We set up a group called New Turn, a think tank. Our aim is to get in speakers/debaters/lecturers to break down key and topical issues for a young audience, allowing us to make up our minds in an environment that encourages discussion and disagreement as opposed to one that encourages a narrow mindset. At New Turn we wish to show that young people are not incapable of engaging, rather it is about time the “system” engaged with them. Therefore, we wish to publish policy papers that reflect the way young people are affected by society, ultimately better informing policy makers.

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